TY - JOUR
T1 - Moody news
T2 - The impact of collective emotion ratings on online news consumers’ attitudes, memory, and behavioral intentions
AU - Myrick, Jessica Gall
AU - Wojdynski, Bartosz W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015.
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - Indicators of collective user behavior and opinion are increasingly common features of online news stories and may include information about how the story made users feel. An experiment (N = 298) examined the effects of the presence and valence of a “mood meter” posted alongside an online human-interest story on memory for, attitude toward, emotional response to, and intentions to share the story. The presence of a mood meter led to lower recall of story content, more negative attitudes toward the story, and less positive emotional responses. The results suggest that participating in a mood meter may attenuate positive responses to human-interest stories.
AB - Indicators of collective user behavior and opinion are increasingly common features of online news stories and may include information about how the story made users feel. An experiment (N = 298) examined the effects of the presence and valence of a “mood meter” posted alongside an online human-interest story on memory for, attitude toward, emotional response to, and intentions to share the story. The presence of a mood meter led to lower recall of story content, more negative attitudes toward the story, and less positive emotional responses. The results suggest that participating in a mood meter may attenuate positive responses to human-interest stories.
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U2 - 10.1177/1461444815598755
DO - 10.1177/1461444815598755
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84994410747
SN - 1461-4448
VL - 18
SP - 2576
EP - 2594
JO - New Media and Society
JF - New Media and Society
IS - 11
ER -