TY - GEN AU - Comstock, George AU - Scharrer, Erica TI - The psychology of media and politics SN - 9780121835521 U1 - 320.014 PY - 2005/// CY - Burlington PB - Elsevier Academic Press KW - Mass media--Political aspects KW - Political psychology KW - Communication in politics N1 - Early Knowledge -- Conventional Wisdom -- The Third Person -- The Evidence -- Rationality -- Hindsight -- Central Elements -- Conformity -- Spiral of Silence -- Major Dimensions -- Polls and News Coverage -- Contingent Conditions -- Psychological Mechanism -- Sherif, Asch, and Milgram -- Paradigms -- Implementation -- Outcomes -- Personal Experience -- Political Socialization -- Party Allegiance -- Social Influence -- Issue Voting -- Three Propositions -- Necessary Corrections -- Ambiguities -- Misapplication -- A Closer Look -- A Contrast -- Asch -- Sherif -- A Difficult Case -- Rethinking the Personal -- Conceptualization -- Historical Changes -- Journalistic Practices -- Psychological Processes -- Our Intentions -- Press and Public -- The New Media -- Three Factors -- First Things -- Contemporary Media -- Logic of Television -- Competition and Dissatisfaction -- Hostile Media -- Collective to Individual -- Horizon -- The Goods -- Under the Magnifying Glass -- Status -- Scandals and Missteps -- They're Off! -- Sound Bites -- Bias -- Civic Disenchantment -- On the Shelves -- Election Day -- Advertising -- Debates -- Narrative and Normalization -- Heterogeneous Faces -- Our Model -- Dropouts -- Republicans -- Democrats -- Independents -- Electoral Cycle -- Regularity -- The Unexpected -- Shifting Attention -- Nonvoting -- Social Structure -- Economics of Voting -- Searching for Information -- Media and Voting -- Commercials as Instruction -- Issues and Debates -- Interest and Motive ER -