Tweets from US journalists on the 2016 campaign trail used more emotive and informal language than news articles and broadcasts, and relied on intuition and anchoring from the past

Tweets from U.S. journalists on the 2016 campaign trail used more emotive and informal language than news articles and broadcasts, and relied on intuition and anchoring from the past

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263730

Article title: Anchoring in the past, tweeting from the present: Cognitive bias in journalists’ word choices

Author countries: U.S.A.

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0263730

Anchoring in the past, tweeting from the present: Cognitive bias in journalists’ word choices

2-Mar-2022

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.