In a laboratory experiment, threat was manipulated through a manipulation used in research on terror management theory (Pyszczynski, Solomon, & Greenberg, 2003). Discussion focuses on the role of threat in conditioning the cognitive and attitudinal effects of authoritarianism.Ībstract = "We examined the hypothesis that threat alters the cognitive strategies used by high authoritarians in seeking out new political information from the environment. Finally, a path analysis indicated that selective exposure to attitude-congruent information led to more internally consistent policy attitudes and inhibited attitude change. However, in the presence of threat, high but not low authoritarians became significantly more interested in exposure to an article containing uniformly pro-attitudinal arguments, and significantly less interested in a balanced, two-sided article.
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We found that in the absence of threat, both low and high authoritarians were responsive to salient norms of evenhandedness in information selection, preferring exposure to a two-sided article that presents the merits of both sides of an issue to an article that selectively touts the benefits of the pro or con side of the issue. Subjects (N=92) were then invited to read one of three editorial articles on the topic of capital punishment.
In a laboratory experiment, threat was manipulated through a "mortality salience" manipulation used in research on terror management theory (Pyszczynski, Solomon, & Greenberg, 2003). We examined the hypothesis that threat alters the cognitive strategies used by high authoritarians in seeking out new political information from the environment.
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