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Experimental Test of Motivated Reasoning: Attitudes towards the Czech Presidents

Authors

HRBKOVÁ Lenka CHYTILEK Roman JANOVSKÝ Jozef EIBL Otto ZAGRAPAN Jozef

Year of publication 2016
Type Chapter of a book
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Description An experimentel test of the theory of motivated reasoning in the context of information about the Czech presidents Václav Havel and Václav Klaus. The goal of the experiment is to see whether previous attitudes towards political leaders influence the type of news citizens are willing to read about them. Also the experiment tests whether the prior attitudes influence the way people process the information about the presidents.
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