Databases utilized included, but were not limited to, the American Business Institute (ABI), the Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI), the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), and the Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS decade), the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and LEXIS/NEXIS. Media are our main suppliers of information and images about events and people outside our immediate environment. ... Discussion of Theory The behaviors chosen and exhibited by individuals are the result of personal judgments they make based on their subjective perception of what const...

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In order to satisfy them with a belief formation, however, these needs and motives determine the "extent" and "modes" of information processing as well as the "selective exposure" to available information about given issues (340). Thus, needs and motives influence the way information is processed because information itself plays a significant "role in the construction and preservation of ideological belief systems" (341). ... When presented with new information, people with these epistemic and existential motives are motivated to process the information ...

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History and memory are intertwined as one cannot exist without the other, yet it is the representation of the past, which can influence our personal perspectives and ideas. ... Baker employs a personal tone with factual documentation and his parents memories to reconstruct the events of the past. ... Baker includes specific historical statistics, letters and other texts to offer information about an event, personalities and situations. ...

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They argued that personal identity gives way to social identity when we identify as belonging to a particular group or crowd. ... They proposed that within this scale a prominent personal identity will relate to others in an interpersonal manner and the transition to social identity will occur when the intergroup is more prominent group identity takes over and at this point on the continuum is where conflict is most likely, especially if the group senses inequality and the possibility of change. ... Too much sensory information determines that individuals categorise in order to find meaning. ...

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