1st Edition
Television and Political Advertising Volume I: Psychological Processes
Part I:Viewing Political Television: Models and Theories.
J. Boiney, D.L. Paletz, In Search of the Model Model: Political Science Versus Political Advertising Perspectives on Voter Decision Making.
F. Biocca, Viewers' Mental Models of Political Messages: Toward a Theory of the Semantic Processing of Television.
F. Biocca, Models of a Successful and an Unsuccessful Ad: An Exploratory Analysis.
Part II:Psychological Processing of Issues, Images, and Form.
S.F. Geiger, B. Reeves, The Effects of Visual Structure and Content Emphasis on the Evaluation and Memory for Political Candidates.
E. Thorson, W.G. Christ, C. Caywood, Selling Candidates Like Tubes of Toothpaste: Is the Comparison Apt?
H.M. Kepplinger, The Impact of Presentation Techniques: Theoretical Aspects and Empirical Findings.
Part III:Differential Processing of Positive and Negative Advertising.
J.E. Newhagen, B. Reeves, Emotion and Memory Responses for Negative Political Advertising: A Study of Television Commercials Used in the 1988 Presidential Election.
A. Lang, Emotion, Formal Features, and Memory for Televised Political Advertisements.
M. Basil, C. Schooler, B. Reeves, Positive and Negative Political Advertising: Effectiveness of Ads and Perceptions of Candidates.
Part IV:The Psychological Contexts of Processing.
J. Schleuder, M. McCombs, W. Wanta, Inside the Agenda-Setting Process: How Political Advertising and TV News Prime Viewers to Think About Issues and Candidates.
G.M. Garramone, M.E. Steele, B. Pinkleton, The Role of Cognitive Schemata in Determining Candidate Characteristic Effects.
L.F. Alwitt, J. Deighton, J. Grimm, Reactions to Political Advertising Depend on the Nature of the Voter-Candidate Bond.
Biography
Frank Biocca
"...a useful and sometimes illuminating analysis of market research techniques used by the modern Machiavellis who run the campaigns."
—Contemporary Psychology






