For Whom is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? Effects of the Visualizing Cognitive Style and Attention on Processing of News Photos

Abstract

A study was conducted to examine the relationship of visualizing and verbalizing cognitive styles and the processing of news photographs. Theory predicts that attention will mediate the relationship between visualizing and photo memory, but not between verbalizing and memory. Both visualizing and attention predicted memory, but the mediational relationship was absent. High visualizers perceived the news photos as more interesting and more unified than low visualizers. Verbalizing level did not predict attention to or memory for the new photographs. The results are discussed in terms of visualizers’ efficiency in processing visual stimuli.

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