Agenda-setting and attitudes: Exploring the impact of media salience on perceived salience and public attitude strength of US presidential candidates from 1984 to 2004

Journalism Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 359-374

  Kiousis, Spiro ^a  

^a STEM Translational Communication Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Agenda setting; Attitude strength; Candidate salience; Catastrophe theory of attitudes; Hierarchy of effects; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957814262     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2010.501149     Document Type: Article

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