Examining Motivations in Interpersonal Communication Expe...
Connors, Elizabeth C. / Pietryka, Matthew T. / Ryan, John Barry
Does interpersonal political communication improve the quality of individual decision making? While deliberative theorists offer reasons for hope, experimental researchers have demonstrated that biased messages can travel via interpersonal social networks. We argue that the value of interpersonal political communication depends on the motivations of the people involved, which can be shifted by different contexts. Using small-group experiments ...