Does media exposure relate to the illusion of knowing in the public understanding of climate change?

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Yang, Xiaodong, Chen, Liang, Ho, Shirley S.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2020
• الموضوعات: Social sciences::Communication; Elaboration; Media Attention
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/141851

By acknowledging that people are cognitive misers, this study proposes that people may rely on the illusion of knowing as cognitive devices for attitudinal or behavioral change, in addition to factual knowledge. Accordingly, this study shifted the focus of inquiry from assessing media effects in inc...