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work_uzlrgr4qnbclxh5soztwvovl4e	Harold Pashler	Perceptions of newsworthiness are contaminated by a political usefulness bias	2018		.pdf	text/html	693	129	57	Perceptions of newsworthiness are contaminated by a political usefulness bias | Semantic Scholar Corpus ID: 52291216Perceptions of newsworthiness are contaminated by a political usefulness bias title={Perceptions of newsworthiness are contaminated by a political usefulness bias}, Are people's perceptions of the newsworthiness of events biased by a tendency to rate as more important any news story that seems likely to lead others to share their own political attitudes? To assess this, we created six pairs of hypothetical news stories, each describing an event that seemed likely to encourage people to adopt attitudes on the opposite side of a particular controversial issue (e.g. affirmative action and gay marriage). Figures, Tables, and Topics from this paper Sort by Most Influenced Papers View 1 excerpt, cites background View 1 excerpt, references background View 1 excerpt, references background Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, based at the Allen Institute for AI.	./cache/work_uzlrgr4qnbclxh5soztwvovl4e.pdf	./txt/work_uzlrgr4qnbclxh5soztwvovl4e.txt