SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION AND PUBLIC OPINION EFFECTS OF COMMUNICATING GROUP CONFLICT
SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION AND PUBLIC OPINION EFFECTS OF COMMUNICATING GROUP CONFLICT
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传播群体冲突的社会认同和公众舆论影响
DOI：
10.1086/269503
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发表时间：
1989
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
V. Price
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作者：
V. Price
公众舆论的形成是一个社会和交流的过程，因此，个人的意见在许多方面取决于围绕公共问题的社会背景。因此，本研究调查了人们的社会身份与大众媒体对公共问题的报道之间的互动，强调社会群体之间的意见冲突。当前的理论和研究的社会认同和群体间行为的认知，知觉和行为过程可能会引发媒体报道的群体冲突的三个阶段的模型。根据这一模型，强调群体冲突的新闻报道（1）促使受众从他们特定的群体视角思考问题，（2）导致对群体观点的极化或夸大的感知，（3）最终导致与这些夸大的群体规范感知相一致的个人观点表达。有助于和抑制这种反应的因素也被纳入模型。本文回顾了对大学生阅读和回应实验准备的报纸文章的实验数据分析。结果发现一般支持社会认同模型，并有助于说明媒体报道强调群体冲突可能在形成公众舆论中发挥重要作用。
Public opinion formation is a social and communica- tive process, and individuals' opinions thus depend in many ways upon the social context surrounding public issues. Consequently this research investigates the interaction between people's social identities and mass media reports of public issues emphasizing conflicts of opinion between social groups. Current theory and research on social identification and intergroup behavior are used to develop a three-stage model of the cognitive, perceptual, and behavioral processes which may be triggered by media reports of group conflict. According to the model, a news report emphasiz- ing group conflict over an issue (1) cues its recipients to think about the issue through their particular group perspective, which (2) leads to polarized or exaggerated perceptions of group opin- ions, and finally (3) leads to expressions of personal opinion con- sistent with these exaggerated perceptions of group norms. Fac- tors contributing to and inhibiting this kind of response are also incorporated into the model. Analyses of experimental data from college undergraduates who read and responded to experimen- tally prepared newspaper articles covering a campus issue are reviewed. The results are found generally to support the social identification model and serve to illustrate how media reports emphasizing group conflicts may play an important role in the formation of public opinion.