Ronald browses a website that advocates strengthening gun control in the United States. The website is full of statistics, graphs showing homicide trends, and charts breaking down the demographics of gun owners
The website is produced by a reputable think tank that Ronald has followed for many years. How will systematic and heuristic processing figure into Ronald's experience when browsing the website.
Ronald will use systematic processing when he experiences most of the content on the site—the site's central message, the ideas it contains, and any facts and figures—as systematic processing involves careful consideration of information. Ronald will use heuristic processing, or a mental shortcut, when he immediately trusts the accuracy of the content based on the fact that it is delivered via a source that he considers to be expert.
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