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Political Memory: The Effects of Media Exposure and Trust in Government

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Memory plays a key role in many theories of politics, yet the determinants of inaccurate political memories have not been the subject of much investigation. Combining a dosage-resistance theory of political communications with a theory of memory lapse and reconstruction, we predict that a clearly identifiable cluster of traits ought to render people vulnerable to inaccurate autobiographical memory. Testing our hypotheses with data from the ANES 1990-1991-1992 Gulf War Panel study on postwar memories of prewar preferences, we find empirical support for our theory. Among other factors, media exposure and trust in government increase vulnerability to misremembering, while education and political knowledge increase resistance. Finally, we show that inaccuracy in autobiographical memory can be tied to future political behavior: those whose recall was inaccurate in 1991 were more likely to vote for the incumbent in 1992.
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Brichoux, David. and Joslyn, Mark. "Political Memory: The Effects of Media Exposure and Trust in Government" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2008-10-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66258_index.html>

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Brichoux, D. and Joslyn, M. R. , 2002-08-28 "Political Memory: The Effects of Media Exposure and Trust in Government" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2008-10-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66258_index.html

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Abstract: Memory plays a key role in many theories of politics, yet the determinants of inaccurate political memories have not been the subject of much investigation. Combining a dosage-resistance theory of political communications with a theory of memory lapse and reconstruction, we predict that a clearly identifiable cluster of traits ought to render people vulnerable to inaccurate autobiographical memory. Testing our hypotheses with data from the ANES 1990-1991-1992 Gulf War Panel study on postwar memories of prewar preferences, we find empirical support for our theory. Among other factors, media exposure and trust in government increase vulnerability to misremembering, while education and political knowledge increase resistance. Finally, we show that inaccuracy in autobiographical memory can be tied to future political behavior: those whose recall was inaccurate in 1991 were more likely to vote for the incumbent in 1992.
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1 Political Memory: The Effects of Media Exposure and Trust in Government By David Brichoux (email: brichoux@ku.edu) Mark R. Joslyn (email: mjoslyn@lark.cc.ku.edu) Department of Political Science University of Kansas 1541 Lilac Lane Lawrence KS 66044­3177 Abstract: Memory plays a key role in many theories of politics yet the determinants of inaccurate political memories have not been the subject of much investigation. Combining a dosage­resistance theory of political communications with a theory of memory lapse and reconstruction we predict that
Questions on the 1982 GSS. Public Opinion Quarterly 48: 639­649. Tourangeau Roger. Lance J. Rips. and Kenneth Rasinski. 2000. The Psychology of Survey Response. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge United Kingdom. Winter Jay and Emmanuel Sivan. 1999 (eds). War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press. Wright Gerald C. 1993. ``Errors in Measuring Vote Choice in the National Election Studies 1952­88.'' American Journal of Political Science 37:291­316. Zaller John R. 1992. The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion.


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