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January 25, 2026Human Communication Research

The power of context: how choice set size and composition influence overall and cross-cutting news exposure

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YZYijia ZhuDLDominik J. LeinerNNNathalie Laura Neuendorf

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Overview

Experiments examine how choice set characteristics affect news exposure and attitudes.

Key Points

  • The research aims to explore how the size and composition of news choices impact exposure and opinion change.
  • Conducted two experiments in the US with 731 and 396 participants, respectively.
  • Examined the effects of choice set size and composition on news article selection.
  • Analyzed how choices influenced attitudes and behavioral intentions.
  • Smaller choice sets resulted in less overall article selection and fewer cross-cutting articles.
  • Composition of choice sets influenced which articles were selected but not overall exposure.
  • No systematic effect was found on attitudes or behavioral intentions in the short term.

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Zhu et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6975b1eafeba4585c2d6d716https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqaf031
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