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When political expertise moderates the impact of scandals on young adults' judgments of politicians
Author(s) -
Régner Isabelle,
Floch Valérie Le
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.245
Subject(s) - psychology , politics , social psychology , contrast (vision) , context (archaeology) , assimilation (phonology) , political science , law , linguistics , history , philosophy , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science
This short note investigated how expertise in a political scandal moderates whether the activation of this scandal produces assimilation in the evaluation of politicians in general and contrast in the evaluation of specific politicians. It was hypothesized that participants with a rich knowledge about the scandal would display the assimilation and contrast effects whereas those with a poorer knowledge would not. Results tended to support this prediction, suggesting that the impact on judgment of a specific context depends on the amount of knowledge participants possess about this context. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.