Political Communication and Cognition [electronic resource] /
Lilleker, D.author.
Political Communication and Cognition draws on a range of theories from communication psychology to explain how citizens receive communication about politics, how communication might make a citizen think and importantly what stimulates political participation, whether simply paying attention, chatting online or going to vote.
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Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgements; Thinking Politics - An Introduction; 1 Strategic Political Communication; 2 Schema Theory for Understanding Political Cognition; 3 Political Conditioning; 4 Peripheral Cues and Personality Politics; 5 Proximity Politics and Valence; 6 Emotional Motivations and Deep Cognition; 7 Thinking Twice; 8 Political Participation in a Digital Age; 9 Voting and Voter Decision-Making; 10 Modelling Political Cognition; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Political Communication and Cognition draws on a range of theories from communication psychology to explain how citizens receive communication about politics, how communication might make a citizen think and importantly what stimulates political participation, whether simply paying attention, chatting online or going to vote.
Political science.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Political theory.
Cognitive psychology.
Political communication.
United States—Politics and government.
Political Science.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Political Theory.
Cognitive Psychology.
Political Communication.
US Politics.