Notes for

Effectiveness of Negative Political Advertising

1 Goerge J. Syzybillo and Ronald F. Hartenbaum, "Political Advertising and the Broadcast Media," Journal of Advertising 5 (1976): 42-46, 52.

2 Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar, Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate (NY: The Free Press, 1995), 109-110.

3 Ansolabehere and Iyengar, Going Negative, 110-111.

4 "Feisty Harry Decried Admen Who Meddled with Politics," Advertising Age 44:4 (January 1, 1973).

5 Syzybillo and Hartenbaum, "Political Advertising and the Broadcast Media," 42.

6 L. Patrick Devlin, "Contrast in Presidential Campaign Commercials of 1996," American Behavioral Scientist 40 (August 1997): 1058-1084.

7 L. Patrick Devlin, "Contrast in Presidential Campaign Commercials of 1996."

8 Larry Sabato, The Rise of Political Consultants: New Way of Winning Elections (NY: Basic Books, 1981), 165-166.

9 Sharyne Merrit, "Negative Political Advertising: Some Empirical Findings," Journal of Advertising 13 (1984): 27-38.

10 Louis Sandy Maisel, Parties and Elections in America: the Electoral Process (NY: Random House, 1986), 137-138.

11 Michael Burgoon and Michael D. Miller, "An Expectancy Interpretation of Language and Persuasion," in Recent Advances in Language, Communication, and Social Psychology, ed. H. Giles and R.N. Clair (London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1985), 199-229.

12 Burgoon and Miller, "An Expectancy interpretation of Language and Persuasion," 199.

13 Michael Pfau, Roxanne Parrott and Briget Lindquist, "An Expectancy Theory Explanation of the Effectiveness of Political Attack Television Spots: A Case Study," Journal of Applied Communication Research 20 (August 1992): 235-253.

14 Burgoon and Miller, "An Expectancy Interpretation of Language and Persuasion," 200.

15 Pfau et al., "An Expectancy Theory Explanation of the Effectiveness of Political Attack Television Spots: A Case Study."

16 Burgoon and Miller, "An Expectancy interpretation of Language and Persuasion."

17 Ibid., 200.

18 Charles J. Stewart, "Voter Perception of Mud-slinging in Political Communication," Central States Speech Journal 26 (1975): 279-286; Stuart Surlin and Thomas Gordon, "How Values Affect Attitudes toward Direct Reference Political Advertising," Journalism Quarterly 54 (1977): 89-98; Gina M. Garramone, "Voter Responses to Negative Political Ads," Journalism Quarterly 61 (1984): 250-259; Merrit, "Negative Political Advertising."

19 Gina M. Garramone, Charles K. Atkin, Bruce E. Pinkleton and Richard T. Cole, "Effects of Negative Political Advertising on the Political Process," Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 34 (1990): 299-311.

20 Ansolabehere and Iyengar, Going Negative, 116.

21 Ibid., 11.

22 Richard J. Lutz and John L. Swasy, "Integrating Cognitive Structure and Cognitive Response Approaches to Monitoring Communication Effects," Advances in Consumer Research 6 (1977): 363-371.

23 Peter L. Wright, "The Cognitive Processes Mediating Acceptance of Advertising," Journal of Marketing Research 10 (1973): 53-62.

24 Wright, "The Cognitive Processes Mediating Acceptance of Advertising."

25 Merrit, "Negative Political Advertising," 29.

26 Ibid.

27 Ibid.

28 R. Dale Wilson and Aydin Muderrisoglu, "An Analysis of Cognitive Responses to Comparative Advertising. Advances in Consumer Research 7 (1979): 566-571.

29 Wilson and Muderrisoglu, "An Analysis of Cognitive Responses to Comparative Advertising," 571.

30 Merrit, "Negative Political Advertising," 29.

31 Stewart, "Voter Perception of Mud-slinging in Political Communication"; Merrit, "Negative Political Advertising" ; Garramone, "Voter Responses to Negative Political Ads."

32 Garramone, "Voter Responses to Negative Political Ads."

33 As cited in Merrit, "Negative Political Advertising," 29.

34 Spencer F. Tinkham and Ruth Ann Weaver-Lariscy, "A Diagnostic Approach to Assessing the Impact of Negative Political Television Commercials," Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 37 (1993): 377-399.

35 Michael Basil, Caroline Schooler and Byron Reeves, "Positive and Negative Political Advertising: Effectiveness of Ads and Perceptions of Candidates," In Television and Political Advertising. Vol. 1. Psychological Process, ed. Frank Biocca (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum,1991), 245-262.

36 Ansolabehere and Iyengar, "Going Negative," 10.

37 Ansolabehere and Iyengar, "Going Negative," 13.

38 Ansolabehere and Iyengar, "Going Negative," 13.

39 Garramone, "Voter Responses to Negative Political Ads," 250.

40 Linda Lee Kaid and John Boydston, "An Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of Negative Political Advertisements," Communication Quarterly 35 (1987): 193-201.

41 Garramone et al., "Effects of Negative Political Advertising on the Political Process," 301

42 Garramone, "Voter Responses to Negative Political Ads."

43 As cited in Karen S. Johnson-Cartee and Gary A. Copeland, Negative Political Advertising: Coming of Age (New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991), 14.

44 Johnson-Cartee and Copeland, Negative Political Advertising, 18.

45 As cited in L. Patrick Devlin, "Contrasts in Presidential Campaign Commercials of 1988," American Behavioral Scientist 32 (1989): 407.

46 Richard R. Lau, "Negativity in Political Perception," Political Behavior 4 (1982): 353.

47 Johnson-Cartee and Copeland, Negative Political Advertising, 15.

48 Tinkham and Weaver-Lariscy, "A Diagnostic Approach to Assessing the Impact of Negative Political Television Commercials," 394.

49 Johnson-Cartee and Copeland, Negative Political Advertising, 30.

50 Johnson-Cartee and Copeland, Negative Political Advertising, 16.

51 Garramone, "Voter Responses to Negative Political Ads," 251.

52 Ibid., 250.

53 Gina M. Garramone, "Effects of Negative Political Advertising: the Roles of Sponsor and Rebuttal," Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 29 (1985): 147-159.

54 Garramone, "Voter Responses to Negative Political Ads"; Stewart, "Voter Perception of Mud-slinging in Political Communication."

55 As cited in Garramone, "Effects of Negative Political Advertising: the Roles of Sponsor and Rebuttal," 148.

56 Stewart, "Voter Perception of Mud-slinging in Political Communication," 282.

57 Surlin and Gordon, "How Values Affect Attitudes toward Direct Reference Political Advertising."

58 Garramone, "Voter Responses to Negative Political Ads," 252.

59 Ibid., 258.

60 Ibid.

61 Merrit, "Negative Political Advertising," 37.

62 Robert J. Lavidge and Gary A. Steiner, "A Model of Predictive Measurements of Advertising Effectiveness," Journal of Marketing 25 (Octber 1961): 60.

63 Stephen B. Ash and Chow-Hou Wee, "Comparative Advertising: A Reiveiw with Implication for Future Research," Advances in Consumer Research 10 (1982): 372.

64 Ibid.

65 Ibid.

66 Esther Thorson, William G Christ, and Clarke Caywood, C, "Effects of Issue and Image Strategies, Attack and Support Appeals, Music, and Visual Content in Political Commercials," Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 35 (1991): 465-486.

67 As cited in Thorson et al., "Effects of Issue and Image Strategies, Attack and Support Appeals, Music, and Visual Content in Political Commercials," 483.

68 Lau, "Negativity in Political Perception."

69 Garramone, "Voter Responses to Negative Political Ads"; Merrit, "Negative Political Advertising."

70 Garramone, "Voter Responses to Negative Political Ads."

71 Merrit, "Negative Political Advertising."

72 Garramone, "Voter Responses to Negative Political Ads," 259.

73 Surlin and Gordon, "How Values Affect Attitudes toward Direct Reference Political Advertising."