Journalistic challenges to a politician’s race-related policies: Rules for interview appropriateness and perceptions of bias and credibility
Journalistic challenges to a politician’s race-related policies: Rules for interview appropriateness and perceptions of bias and credibility
Abstract: This study uses a randomized posttest-only between-subjects experiment to investigate the communication rules participants perceive after a journalist interviews a politician about race-related policies. The journalist’s adversarialness (no challenge, simple challenge, contextualized challenge) was rated for perceived appropriateness. Social dominance orientation (SDO) was used as a moderator of participant perceptions of the journalist and politician. Overall, SDO weighs more heavily than does level of challenge, with high SDO participants perceiving journalistic challenges as less appropriate.
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