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Credit: Lee, Hamilton, 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Tweets from U.S. journalists on the 2016 campaign trail used more emotive and informal language than news articles and broadcasts, and relied on intuition and anchoring from the past
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263730
Article title: Anchoring in the past, tweeting from the present: Cognitive bias in journalists’ word choices
Author countries: U.S.A.
Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.
Journal
PLoS ONE
Article Title
Anchoring in the past, tweeting from the present: Cognitive bias in journalists’ word choices
Article Publication Date
2-Mar-2022
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.