Backfiring Frames: Abortion Politics, Religion, and Attitude Resistance
Following recent insight into how citizens respond to attempts to correct political and salient misperceptions (Nyhan and Riefler, 2010, Political Behavior 32 (2): 303-330), we also expect that certain characteristics will predispose citizens to react strongly to messaging on highly contentious issu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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Politics and religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 403-430 |
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| Summary: | Following recent insight into how citizens respond to attempts to correct political and salient misperceptions (Nyhan and Riefler, 2010, Political Behavior 32 (2): 303-330), we also expect that certain characteristics will predispose citizens to react strongly to messaging on highly contentious issues. Specifically, we expect that respondents will express an opinion that is even stronger in line with their predispositions when exposed to frames that challenge their position. Using an experiment on abortion opinion embedded in the 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), we find little indication that Pro-Abortion Access and Anti-Abortion Access frames move opinion on abortion in the aggregate, but there is evidence that specific characteristics correlate with a "backfire" effect identified by Nyhan and Riefler (2010, Political Behavior 32 (2): 303-330). In particular, gender, religiosity, and "Born-Again" Christian affiliation are all predictive of responding to either the Anti-Abortion Access or Pro-Abortion Access frame by moving the opposite direction as intended on the feeling thermometer. |
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| ISSN: | 1755-0491 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Politics and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S1755048320000310 |