Lecheler, Sophie. “Framing Effects in Political Communication.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Ed. Sandy Maisel. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

November, 2018

Van 't Riet, J., Schaap, G., Kleemans, M., Veiling, H., and Lecheler, S. (2018). On Different Sides: Investigating the Persuasive Effects of Anger Expression in Political News Messages. Political Psychology (online first).

November, 2018

News Framing Effects is a guide to framing effects theory, one of the most prominent theories in media and communication science. Rooted in both psychology and sociology, framing effects theory describes the ability of news media to influence peoples’ attitudes and behaviours by subtle changes to how they report on an issue. The book gives expert commentary on this complex theoretical notion alongside practical instruction on how to apply it to research. 

The book’s structure mirrors the steps a scholar might take to design a framing study. The first chapter establishes a working definition of news framing effects theory. The following chapters focuses on how to identify the independent variable (i.e., the "news frame") and the dependent variable (i.e., the "framing effect"). The book then considers the potential limits or enhancements of the proposed effects (i.e., the "moderators") and how framing effects might emerge (i.e., the "mediators"). Finally, it asks how strong these effects are likely to be. The final chapter considers news framing research in the light of a rapidly and fundamentally changing news and information market, in which technologies, platforms, and changing consumption patterns are forcing assumptions at the core of framing effects theory to be re-evaluated.

Lecheler, S., & de Vreese, C. H. (2018). News Framing Effects: Theory and Practice. Routledge.

October, 2018

Sophie Lecheler, Jana Egelhofer and Loes Aaldering went to the ECPR General Conference in Hamburg.

Sophie was one of the speakers in the roundtable session 'Political Communication in a Post-truth Era: Much Ado about Nothing?'.

Jana and Loes presented the following papers:

Egelhofer, J., Lecheler, S., & Aaldering, LYou are Fake News!" How the Term Fake News is Instrumentalized to Undermine News Media.

Aaldering, L., & Lecheler, S. Trick of the Traits: An Experimental Study on the Impact of Trait Ownership on Mediated Leader Effects.

August, 2018

De Haan, Y., Kruikemeier, S., Lecheler, S., Smit, G., & Van der Nat, R. (2018). Audience uses and evaluations of news visualizations: when does an infographic say more than a thousand words. In A. Nguyen (Ed.), News, Numbers and Public Opinion in a Data-Driven World (pp. 191-208). New York/London: Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

July, 2018

Ming Boyer went to San Antonio and presented the following papers on the ISPP conference:

Boyer, M.M., & Aaldering, L. (2018). Identity-Based Motivated Reasoning: Polarizing News Effects of Gender Identity Cues.

Boyer, M.M., & Lecheler, S.K. (2018). What the News Means to Me: How Identity Cues in the News Affect Group Identity Salience.

July, 2018

Aaldering, L. (2018). 'The (ir)rationality of mediatized leadership effects', Electoral Studies, 54: 269-280.

June, 2018

Loes Aaldering presented the paper Trick of the Traits: An Experimental Study on the Impact of Trait Ownership on Mediated Leader Effects (co-authored by Sophie Lecheler) at the EPSA conference in Vienna.

June, 2018

Loes Aaldering organized the panel 'Political Communication' at the Politicologenetmaal in Leiden, together with Daphne van der Pas and Mariken van der Velden.

She presented the paper Trick of the Traits: An Experimental Study on the Impact of Trait Ownership on Mediated Leader Effects (co-authored by Sophie Lecheler) there as well.

June, 2018

Lecheler , S. (2018). Down the rabbit hole: Integrating emotions into news framing effects research . In P. D’Angelo & J. A. Kuypers (Eds.), Doing news framing analysis (2nd edition), pp. 71-89. New York : Routledge.

May, 2018

Jana Egelhofer, Ming Boyer, Loes Aaldering and Sophie Lecheler went to Prague and presented the following papers on the ICA conference:

Boyer, M., & Lecheler, S. What the News Means to Me: An Exploratory Experiment Investigating Social Identity Salience After News Exposure.

Egelhofer, J., Lecheler, S., & Aaldering, L. You are Fake News!" How the Term Fake News is Instrumentalized to Undermine News Media.

Aaldering, L. The (ir)rationality of mediatized leader effects.

April, 2018

Jana Egelhofer, Ming Boyer and Loes Aaldering went to Chicago and presented the following papers on the MPSA conference:

Boyer, M Lecheler, S. What the News Means to Me: An Exploratory Experiment Investigating Social Identity Salience After News Exposure.

Egelhofer, J., Lecheler, S., & Aaldering, L.: You are Fake News!" How the Term Fake News is Instrumentalized to Undermine News Media.

Van der Pas, D., & Aaldering, L.: Gender Differences in Political Media Coverage: A Meta-Analysis.

Aaldering, L., & Lecheler, S.: Trick of the Traits: An Experimental Study on the Impact of Trait Ownership on Mediated Leader Effects.

April, 2018

January, 2018