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The Effect of Headlines on the Interpretation of News Stories
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News DistributionCommunicationTotal ImpressionMedia StudiesJournalismPsychologyInteractive JournalismPsychology StudentsNews AnalyticsDiscourse AnalysisPolitical CommunicationLanguage StudiesNews SemanticsDifferent Headlines InfluenceContent AnalysisPost-truthMedia CritiqueCommunication StudyLinguisticsCommunication ResearchExperimental PsychologyNews StoriesMass CommunicationArtsPersuasion
In an experiment conducted with groups of psychology students, the author tested how different headlines influence the total impression created by a news story. Mr. Tannenbaum is a member of the research staff of the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois.