title: Presidential debates and change in students' attitude.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Counseling, Alabama A&M University, Normal 35762, USA.
authors.forename: Everton G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: McIntosh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States