Motivated Reasoning, Accuracy, and Updating in Perceptions of Bush's Legacy*

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• 作者：Patrick C. Meirick
• 刊名：Social Science Quarterly
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：97
• 期：3
• 页码：699-713
• 全文大小：189K
• ISSN：1540-6237

文摘

This study sets out to examine the roles of party identification, political knowledge, education, and media use in citizens’ perceptions of changes in the economy, federal deficit, poverty, and crime rates between 2001 and 2008. It also tests the predictions of motivated reasoning versus Bayesian updating in seeing how (or if) perceptions of the economy changed as conditions worsened during 2008.