This repository contains replication materials for the paper "Attitudinal Persuasion and Perceptual Backfire? Effects of Fact-Checking News Delivered by Partisan Media" (https://osf.io/ycrv9/).
Abstract: The effectiveness of and its boundary conditions regarding fact-checking news exposure have significant normative and practical implications. While many of the prior studies have focused on the attitudinal consequences of fact-checking news delivered by neutral third parties such as fact-check organizations, relatively less is known as to the effect of fact-checking news delivered by partisan media. Based on the frameworks of motivated reasoning and the hostile media effect, we investigate the possibility of decoupling between attitudinal persuasion and perceptual backfire by fact-checking news by partisan media—that is, exposure to fact-checking news increases bias perception of such news yet nevertheless attitudinally persuades audiences. Based on a series of original experiments conducted in South Korea and in the United States, we find consistent support for our prediction, in that exposure to fact-checking news produces the corrective effects, yet at the same time perceived bias of the fact-checking news systematically varies as a function of the ideological slant of partisan media.
For any questions or inquries, please contact the corresponding author, Hyunjin (Jin) Song (hyunjinsong@yonsei.ac.kr) or the first author Je Hoon Chae (chae@g.ucla.edu). Questions concerning R codes should be directed to the first author.
To control relative file paths, using FC-experiment.Rproj can be an option.
- 01_data: This folder includes pre-processed data which was used for analysis and generation of figures and tables in the paper. (This folder is not disclosed during a peer-review process)
- 02_code: This folder includes every code replicating figures and tables (including the ones in appendix).
- 03_results: From Figure 1 to FIgure 6 generated with the R codes in 02_code are contained.