Cognitive, Emotional and Excitative Responses to Satirical News

Figures & data

Table 1. Means and (standard deviations) of dependent variables across experimental conditions.

	Regular News	Satirical News
	Cognitive responses
Cognitive Effort	2.80 (1.60)^a	2.51 (1.44)^a
Attention	3.02 (1.60)^a	2.52 (1.34)^b
HR	1.11 (15.28)^a	−2.83 (20.47)^a
	Emotional responses
Happiness	3.15 (1.41)^a	3.97 (1.49)^b
Hopefulness	3.76 (1.61)^a	3.25 (1.37)^b
Sadness	2.12 (1.40)^a	2.66 (1.36)^b
Worry	3.22 (1.65)^a	3.80 (1.55)^b
	Excitative responses
Arousal	2.37 (1.02)^a	2.21 (0.94)^a
SCL	11.27 (18.63)^a	2.23 (16.52)^b
	Media effects
Message-Congruent Attitudes	4.68 (1.45)^a	4.57 (1.72)^a

HR and SCL represents the means of the differences between participant’s HR and SCL in rest and while watching each video. A higher SCL/HR score means higher SCL/faster HR, while a lower score means lower SCL/slower HR. Different superscripts in the same row indicate significant differences of at least p < .05.

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Note. Path model shows the relationships between news condition, attention, happiness, hopefulness, sadness, worry, SCL, and message-congruent attitudes.Regression coefficient are shown, the standard errors are displayed between the brackets. Paths with continuous lines are significant. * p < .05, ** p < .01.