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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
Obama is protesting...
He is Occupying Oahu for the 18 days....
At a cost of $750,000 to the tax payer as he says we should be saving money for the little guy.
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You are what you read. You should consider avoiding the political sites you have been going to. They are not making you smarter.
It's a real phenomenon.
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Media priming refers to the residual, often unintended consequences of media use on subsequent perceptions, judgments, and behavior. Previous research showed that the media can prime behavior that is in line with the primed traits or concepts (assimilation). However, assimilation is expected to be less likely and priming may even yield reverse effects (contrast) when recipients have a dissimilarity testing mindset. Based on previous research on narrative comprehension and experience as well as research on media priming, a short-term influence of stories on cognitive performance is predicted. In an experimental study, participants (N = 81) read a story about a stupid soccer hooligan. As expected, participants who read the story without a special processing instruction performed worse in a knowledge test than a control group who read an unrelated text. Participants with a reading goal instruction to find dissimilarities between the self and the main protagonist performed better than participants who read the story without this instruction. The effects of reported self-activation and story length were further considered.
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This is the
"Jersey Shore" study that showed that people consuming stupid media content actually perform worse on tests than a control group.
In your example, you are condemning your political opposition for doing what all past presidents have done. Take a trip. It's perfectly normal and standard. 18 days may seem long, but there have been others who took longer vacations. And as we all know, the President is never really off the clock.