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Sedona Chinn
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 17
Citations - 513
Sedona Chinn is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 11 publications receiving 184 citations. Previous affiliations of Sedona Chinn include University of Michigan.
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Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News Coverage
TL;DR: The authors examined the level of politicization and polarization in COVID-19 news in U.S. newspapers and televised network news from March to May 2020 and found that both newspaper and network news coverage are highly polarized.
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Politicization and Polarization in Climate Change News Content, 1985-2017:
TL;DR: This paper used computer assisted content analysis to find long-term trends in climate change news and found that politicalization and polarization in climate news is not a new phenomenon, but rather a recent phenomenon.
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In consensus we trust? Persuasive effects of scientific consensus communication.
TL;DR: Results indicate that communicating higher levels of consensus increases perceptions of scientific certainty, which is associated with greater personal agreement and policy support for non-political issues, and is moderated by participants’ overall trust in science.
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The elusive power of the individual victim: Failure to find a difference in the effectiveness of charitable appeals focused on one compared to many victims.
TL;DR: The present studies investigate the effects of help appeals that describe either an identified individual or statistics about many individuals, while addressing potential confounds that may have arisen in previous research.
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Climate Change Consensus Messages Cause Reactance
Sedona Chinn,P. Sol Hart +1 more
TL;DR: This paper used procedures and measurement techniques to investigate whether climate change consensus messages cause reactance in a group of participants in a discussion about the effects of consensus messages on their reactions to climate change.