Confidence in political leaders can slant risk perceptions of COVID–19 in a highly polarized environment

• Conservatives show lower risk perceptions of COVID-19 than liberals and moderates. • Confidence in political leaders can reduce risk perceptions of COVID-19. • It also can mediate the effects of political ideology on risk perceptions. • Attention to news about the outbreak of COVID-19 is positivel...

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Autores principales: Shao, Wanyun, Hao, Feng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7377700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32730961
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113235
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description • Conservatives show lower risk perceptions of COVID-19 than liberals and moderates. • Confidence in political leaders can reduce risk perceptions of COVID-19. • It also can mediate the effects of political ideology on risk perceptions. • Attention to news about the outbreak of COVID-19 is positively correlated with risk perceptions. • Perceived quality of media coverage can lead to heightened risk perceptions of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-73777002020-07-24 Confidence in political leaders can slant risk perceptions of COVID–19 in a highly polarized environment Shao, Wanyun Hao, Feng Soc Sci Med Article • Conservatives show lower risk perceptions of COVID-19 than liberals and moderates. • Confidence in political leaders can reduce risk perceptions of COVID-19. • It also can mediate the effects of political ideology on risk perceptions. • Attention to news about the outbreak of COVID-19 is positively correlated with risk perceptions. • Perceived quality of media coverage can lead to heightened risk perceptions of COVID-19. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-09 2020-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7377700/ /pubmed/32730961 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113235 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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