More Choice, Less Uncertainty: The Paradoxical Relationship of Political Identity and News Exposure in the American Public Sphere

The article explores how ambiguity is defined as a situation of inexactness, and is synonymous with the feelings of uncertainty and ambivalence. Topics discussed include uncertainty with regard to a particular event, that one can assign it some subjective probability based on believe; theory of cogn...

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Main Author: Gross, Benjamin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The University of North Carolina Press 2017
In: Cross currents
Year: 2017, Volume: 67, Issue: 4, Pages: 705-725
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Publicity / Ambiguity / Political identity / Wahlmöglichkeit / Insecurity
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AF Geography of religion
KBQ North America
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Decision Making
B Cognitive Dissonance
B theory of knowledge
B CRITERION (Theory of knowledge)
B Ambiguity
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Summary:The article explores how ambiguity is defined as a situation of inexactness, and is synonymous with the feelings of uncertainty and ambivalence. Topics discussed include uncertainty with regard to a particular event, that one can assign it some subjective probability based on believe; theory of cognitive dissonance, the internal discord felt from holding conflicting beliefs simultaneously; and challenge for humans is to form and maintain a set of beliefs.
ISSN:1939-3881
Contains:Enthalten in: Cross currents
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/cros.12292