In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Experimental Political Science, Chandler Case, Christopher Eddy, Rahul Hemrajani, Christopher Howell, Daniel Lyons,
Yu-Hsien Sung, and Professor Elizabeth Connors examine the effects of expert versus non-expert sources
cues and issue frames on the incorporation of information about the COVID-19 crisis.
They find no evidence that either source cue of message framing influence people’s
responses to questions about the crisis—instead finding that ideology, media consumption,
and age explain much of the survey response variation. Their findings further demonstrate
the challenges public health campaigns face in shaping behavior in the pandemic.
You can find the article at the following link: