Information acquisition and covert evaluation are competing mediators of agenda setting.

Evidence

Another advantage of experimentation is the opportunity it offers to examine individual-level processes that might account for agenda setting. Here we explore two. According to the first, more news coverage of a problem leads to the acquisition and retention of more information about the problem, which in turn leads to the judgment of the problem as more important. According to the second, news coverage of a problem provokes the viewer to consider the claims being advanced; depending on the character of these ruminations, agenda setting will be more or less powerful. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1449

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Media agenda setting works through covert evaluation, not information recall — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1493; Agenda setting may work through information retention or through viewer rumination. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1449; Agenda setting may work through information recall and retention — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1485 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Media agenda setting works through covert evaluation, not information recall #qualifies (0.90) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1493
• Agenda setting may work through information retention or through viewer rumination. #qualifies (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1449
• Agenda setting may work through information recall and retention #contradicts (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1485
• Media agenda shifts alter the political weight the public assigns to events over time #expands (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1626