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Publication details [#60750]

Grabe, Maria Elizabeth and Ozen Bas. 2015. Emotion-Provoking Personalization of News: Informing Citizens and Closing the Knowledge Gap? Communication Research 42 (2) : 159–182.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

emotion | information processing | journalese | knowledge | recall

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Against all odds, this study shows that journalistic styles that personalize issues and evoke emotion ease informed citizenship (across education groups), with knowledge gap sizes differing across the memory measures of free and cued recall and recognition.