Episodic and Thematic Framing Effects on the Attribution of Responsibility: The Effects of Personalized and Contextualized News on Perceptions of Individual and Political Responsibility for Causing the Economic Crisis

The effects of episodic and thematic framing on the attribution responsibility for societal problems have previously been investigated with experimental methods mostly tested general public. current work, instead, investigates framing’s effect by linking a large-scale content analysis to data panel survey ( n = 3,270) assesses conditionality upon citizens’ individual political ideology. It does so focus perceptions 2009–2015 economic crisis within context Netherlands. Results demonstrate that exposure episodically framed news caused decline in citizens, whereas did not affect this. Framing responsibility, were conditional ideology: Episodic decreased increased actors, but both occurred primarily among citizens right-wing political-economic Accordingly, we add an explanation inconsistency directions published research may attributions.