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Examining Candidate Information Search Processes: The Impact of Processing Goals and Sophistication.

Huang, Li-Ning – Journal of Communication, 2000
Investigates how 4 different information-processing goals, varying on the dimensions of effortful versus effortless and impression-driven versus non-impression-driven processing, and individual difference in political sophistication affect the depth at which undergraduate students process candidate information and their decision-making strategies.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Higher Education, Information Processing