Feeling validated versus being correct: A meta-analysis of selective exposure to information.
University of Florida · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · +2 more institutions
Abstract
A meta-analysis assessed whether exposure to information is guided by defense or accuracy motives. The studies examined information preferences in relation to attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in situations that provided choices between congenial information, which supported participants ’ pre-existing attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors, and uncongenial information, which challenged these tendencies. Analyses indi-cated a moderate preference for congenial over uncongenial information (d 0.36). As predicted, this congeniality bias was moderated by variables that affect the strength of participants ’ defense motivation and accuracy motivation. In support of the importance of defense motivation, the congeniality…
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6Topics & keywords
- Psychology
- Conviction
- Preference
- Social psychology
- Feeling
- Affect (linguistics)
- Quality (philosophy)
- Meta-analysis