Partisan Perceptual Bias and the Information Environment
Authors:
- Jennifer JeritJJJennifer Jerit
- Jason BarabasJBJason Barabas
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- 1 July 2012
- journal article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Journal of Politics
- Vol. 74 (3) , 672-684
Abstract
Perceptual bias occurs when beliefs deviate from reality. Democrats and Republicans are thought to be especially susceptible to this type of biased-information processing. And yet we know little ab...Keywords
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