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Lucrarea în care își expune modelul este: The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion, 1992 =
e s t e c o n s i d e r a t ă ”singura carte mai importanta asupra opiniei publice de la lucrarea lui
V.O.Key” (1908-1963), Public Opinion and American Democracy
Paradox: After all, if popularity is based on economic performance, peace, and centrism,
these things didn't dramatically improve in the early days of the scandal, so why did Clinton get
a net gain in popularity?
Explicatia: During campaigns, politics are salient and information abounds. People,
therefore, update their retrospective evaluations more frequently during campaigns. Since the
scandal broke in mid-term, people hadn't been paying much attention to politics. Measures of
Clinton's approval just before the scandal, therefore, reflected 'outdated' "running tallies" of
Clinton's performance. But as people re-evaluated Clinton in the days after the scandal,
they found that the economy (and Clinton's performance in general) had actually been
improving more than they had noticed in the previous months. Therefore, they updated their
retrospective tallies accordingly in the days after the scandal.