Headlines win elections: Mere exposure to fictitious news media alters voting behavior

• Roland Pfister ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: roland.pfister@uni-trier.de (RP); katharina.schwarz@uni-wuerzburg.de (KAS)

  Affiliations General Psychology, Trier University, Trier, Germany, Institute for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ICAN), Trier University, Trier, Germany, Department of Psychology III, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4429-1052

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• Katharina A. Schwarz ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: roland.pfister@uni-trier.de (RP); katharina.schwarz@uni-wuerzburg.de (KAS)

  Affiliation Department of Psychology III, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Patricia Holzmann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology III, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Moritz Reis,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology III, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1547-8109

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• Kumar Yogeeswaran,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, Speech, and Hearing, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1978-5077

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• Wilfried Kunde

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology III, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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