In My Honest Opinion: How Signals of Source Motives Help Mitigate Partisan Bias

• In Event: JSS SESSION: Content and Effects of Partisan Media

Brief Overview

This study uses an experimental design to test competing theories of motivated reasoning by simultaneously manipulating source credibility cues and partisan cues. Preliminary results show that source cues may help mitigate individual partisan biases.

Author

• Adam Ozer, University of Houston