@article{8c928461cccc49f29672f5c8028bba52,
title = "On Hearing and Interpreting Political Messages: A Cautionary Tale of Citizen Cue-Taking",
abstract = "Recent research documents the widespread use of heuristics, especially a reliance on elite cues among citizens. Scholars have celebrated this mode of decision making as rational and effective. Using experimental survey data collected from white and African-American respondents, we also identify what appears to be a strong influence of elite messages on mass political judgments, but only among our black respondents. More importantly, the data reveal some of the perils of cue-taking. Although rational, this heuristic may not always be effective.",
author = "Kuklinski, {James H.} and Hurley, {Norman L.}",
note = "Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge the support of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Research Board, the Department of Political Science, and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois-Urbana for financial and clerical support. Paul Quirk and Robert Wyer and his Social Cognition Seminar provided their usual insightful critiques; this article is all the better because of them. 'Although the study of political persuasion has been relatively dormant until recently, McGuire (1985, 258) reports that new studies of communication and persuasion have been averaging about one thousand per year across all disciplinary fields.",
year = "1994",
month = aug,
doi = "10.2307/2132190",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "56",
pages = "729--751",
journal = "Journal of Politics",
issn = "0022-3816",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "3",
}