For the past year, it seems, everywhere you turn there’s been a story about the sorry state of the oceans. There have been countless reports about a frightening decline of fish in the ocean. Americans have also read about troubled coral reefs and hideous fish kills. The drumbeat is so heavy, Time Magazine has had two cover stories on the subject. Not only has this same suite of stories cropped ...

Idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF) is a controversial condition in which people describe symptoms following exposure to electromagnetic fields from everyday electrical devices. However, double-blind experiments have found no convincing evidence that electromagnetic fields cause these symptoms. In this study, we assessed whether recent newspaper r...

Background: An important source of knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes about illness is the mass media. Research has established the often negative and emotive language utilised by journalists to report on physical and mental long-term illnesses. The limited amount of research on rheumatological conditions has largely focused on the extent of, and/or accuracy of media coverage. This is the first ...

When we see a stranger's face we quickly form impressions of his or her personality, and expectations of how the stranger might behave. Might these intuitive character judgements bias source monitoring? Participants read headlines "reported" by a trustworthy- and an untrustworthy-looking reporter. Subsequently, participants recalled which reporter provided each headline. Source memory for likel...

In this paper we compare a number of Topiary-style headline generation systems. The Topiary system, developed at the University of Maryland with BBN, was the top performing headline generation system at DUC 2004. Topiary-style headlines consist of a number of general topic labels followed by a compressed version of the lead sentence of a news story. The Topiary system uses a statistical learnin...

We present a system for the detection of the stance of headlines with regard to their corresponding article bodies. The approach can be applied in fake news, especially clickbait detection scenarios. The component is part of a larger platform for the curation of digital content; we consider veracity and relevancy an increasingly important part of curating online information. We want to contribu...

The appeal of personae in news is investigated based on social comparison and regulatory focus theory. High-school students (N=252) browsed through online news while selective exposure was unobtrusively logged. Manipulated headlines focused on individuals and varied along three within factors: the positive or negative valence of the headline, the sex of the portrayed individuals, and their econ...

INTRODUCTION The defaults for typography and layout in Microsoft PowerPoint, which has 95 percent of the market share for presentation slide software (Parker 2001), compel presenters to create headlines that are single words or short phrases. Not surprisingly, in a typical PowerPoint presentation, the main assertion of each slide is relegated to appear in the slide’s body. For those creating sl...

by YOUNGSHIM BAEK (Under the Direction of Jooyoung Kim) ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the persuasive effects of metaphors in print advertising on consumer attitudes toward advertisements and brands, under different product condition that vary in the level of involvement (high vs. low) and the basic consumption type of product (utilitarian vs. hedonic). The results suggest...