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Selective exposure is a theory within the practice of psychology, often used in media and communication research, that historically refers to individuals' tendency to favor information which reinforces their pre-existing views while avoiding contradictory information.
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Festinger's theory was primarily laid out in cognitive terms, addressing exposure choices to persuasive messages. Zillmann and his colleagues thus proposed the mood management theory that attempts to cope with the broadest possible range of message choices such as news, documents, comedies, dramas, tragedies, music performances, and sports.
The Lehman Scale was widely used in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s but is no longer the standard that it used to be due to inflation ($100 in 1970 is $785 in 2023 dollars). To account for this, some banks developed variants in the 1990s that critics saw as overly greedy - for example, switching to $10 million increments (i.e., 5% of the first $10 ...
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In his 1980 article, [1] Lehman qualified the application of such laws by distinguishing between three categories of software: An S-program is written according to an exact specification of what that program can do. For example, a program to find solutions to the eight queens puzzle would be an S-program. These programs are mostly static and ...
Selective exposure theory was nominated as a Social sciences and society good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (April 27, 2012). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.
Selective attention manifests itself in the form of an overt behaviour via selective exposure. Selective exposure: People selectively expose themselves to information that justifies important prior decisions they have made. [37] This holds true so long as the information appears to be valid and the decision that was made was done so freely and ...