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Presidential debates and change in students' attitude
1Department of Psychology and Counseling, Alabama A&M University, Normal 35762, USA.
Psychological Reports
|March 20, 2002
Abstract:
The effects of debates on influencing potential voters' attitudes were assessed in a group of 45 undergraduates who watched the third presidential debate of election year 2000 between candidates Bush and Gore. A repeated measures t test indicated a significant change in immediate ratings of attitude from pretest to posttest, with Gore being rated higher at posttest.