ABSTRACT
Roloff and Berger’s (1982) Social Cognition and Communication was composed of nine chapters. Of these chapters, one was introductory, one pertained broadly to mass communication research, and the remainder covered topics such as impression formation, interpersonal communication, relational communication, and organizational communication. The mass communication chapter in that volume (Reeves, Chaffee, & Tims, 1982) is of central interest for this chapter given our focus on news (conveyed via mass media) and politics (which has, until the past decade or so, been primarily concerned with mass rather than interpersonal communication).
