Emotional TV Viewing and Minority Audience : How Mexican Americans Process and Evaluate TV News About In-Group Members  

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Fujioka, Yuki

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Communication Research vol. 32 no. 5 (Oct. 2005), page 566-593.
Topik: emotional TV viewing; minority audience; information processing; self-schema; ethnic identity
Fulltext: Vol 32, no 5, page 566-593.pdf (167.08KB)

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A total of 90 Mexican American and White American participants viewed 12 emotional television news stories, featuring Mexican Americans, that were positive or negative in valence and high or low in arousal. Participants completed a cued recall test and evaluated recalled news stories. Analyses revealed a strong main effect of arousal on participants’ attention and memory. Mexican American participants rated Mexican American news stories more favorably and as more arousing, recalled the news more, and evaluated recalled news more positively than did their White American counterparts. Consistent with the principles of self-schema and social identity theory, these findings demonstrate that people process and evaluate self-referencing information differently than they process nonself-referencing information. Theoretical and practical implications of these results are also discussed.

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