Replication Data for: Older Americans are more vulnerable to prior exposure effects in news evaluation

Older news users may be especially vulnerable to prior exposure effects, whereby news comes to be seen as more accurate over multiple viewings. We test this in re-analyses of three two-wave, nationally representative surveys in the U.S. (N = 8,730) in which respondents rated a series of main-stream, hyperpartisan, and false political headlines (139,082 observations). We find that prior ex-posure effects increase with age – being strongest for those in the oldest cohort (60+) – especially for false news. We discuss implications for the design of media literacy programs and policies re-garding targeted political advertising aimed at this group.老年新闻受众或许尤其易受先前接触效应（prior exposure effects）影响——即经过多次观看后，新闻内容会被视作更为准确。本研究通过对三项美国全国代表性两波追踪调查（总样本量N=8,730）进行重新分析，验证了这一假设。在这些调查中，受访者对一系列主流、极端党派化及虚假政治标题进行了评分，共计139,082条观测数据。研究发现，先前接触效应随年龄增长而增强——在60岁及以上的最老年队列群体中效应最为显著，针对虚假新闻的情况尤为突出。本研究最后讨论了该发现对面向该群体的媒介素养项目设计，以及定向政治广告相关政策制定的启示。