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Cultivation and Psychological Processes KU Leuven
Need to Evaluate KU Leuven
Measurement of Attitudes KU Leuven
The Bridget Jones Effect: The Relationship between Exposure to Romantic Media Contents and Fear of Being Single Among Emerging Adults KU Leuven
© 2017 American Psychological Association. Based on cultivation theory, this study examines whether an individual's exposure to romantic media contents would be significantly related to their fear of being single. Analyses on a cross-sectional sample of 18-to 25-year olds (N = 821) did not show a significant overall relationship between exposure to romantic media contents and fear of being single, but moderation results indicated that this ...
Challenging Google Search filter bubbles in social and political information: Disconforming evidence from a digital methods case study KU Leuven
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This article engages in the debate on supposed online ‘filter bubbles’ by analysing a panel of Google users’ search results on a standardized set of socio-politically themed search queries. In general, the query results appear to be dominated by mainstream media sources, followed at a large distance by civil society and government resources. By means of mixed model regression analyses, with the prominence of different source ...
The problem with our attitude: A meta-theoretical analysis of attitudinal media effects research KU Leuven
Reconceptualizing Cultivation: Implications for Testing Relationships between Fiction Exposure and Self-Reported Alcohol Use Evaluations KU Leuven
The present paper responds to calls for conceptual clarification in the media effects domain by providing a definition for attitudinal cultivation effects. Our definition contains five core characteristics: the (1) linear effects of (2) repeated media exposure on (3) the evaluation as given by memory associations (4) strengthened by and (5) valenced in line with those media messages. We reason that, when accepting this definition, the ...