Yariv Tsfati

TL;DR: Hypotheses predicting a relationship between media skepticism and news media consumption are tested and findings show that media skepticism is negatively associated with mainstream news exposure but positively associated with nonmainstream news exposure.

TL;DR: The aim is to learn about individual-level correlates across contexts and to demonstrate that macro-level factors play a part in shaping such trust, which indicates that levels of political interest, interpersonal trust, and Exposure to television news and newspapers are positively correlated with trust in media, while education and exposure to news on the Internet are negatively associated.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the moderating role played by the psychological construct of "the need for cognition" (NFC) in this association and concluded that people consume news they do not trust when their media skepticism is irrelevant to their motivation for news exposure.

TL;DR: This paper used survey data collected immediately following recent national elections in two countries, the United States and Israel, to investigate the extent to which exposure to information reinforcing individuals' partisan identity versus information representing the views of partisan opponents is correlated with negative affective responses toward opposing party members.

TL;DR: This article explored possible associations between mistrus and online journalism, based on the premise that online journalism offers readers with some features that may serve as an alternative to traditional journalism, and found that mistrus features may be useful for some readers.