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In this political environment, independent of editorial lines, news can spread based on populist content features and drive the political divide even further. However, we still do not understand well, how the forces of political disconnect as well as potentially unifying elements such as political knowledge and the willingness to connect with the other (political) side predict audience interest in populist news featuring <jats:italic>people-centrism<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>anti-elitism<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>restoring popular sovereignty<\/jats:italic>, and the <jats:italic>exclusion of others<\/jats:italic>. To better understand what drives (dis-)interest in populist news features, we combined self-report data from a non-student US sample (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic> = 440) on political attitudes with unobtrusively measured data on their selective exposure to populist news. We analyzed the data using zero-inflated negative binomial regression models, in which we simultaneously modeled selective exposure to and avoidance of populist news. The findings indicate that especially the will to connect with others explained exposure to news about <jats:italic>anti-elitism<\/jats:italic>, especially among Democrats, while Republicans\u2019 news avoidance seems to be specifically geared toward <jats:italic>people-centrism<\/jats:italic>. Populist communication features promoting \u201cus\u201d vs. \u201cthem\u201d dichotomies seem to not automatically resonate with the views of resentful voters and their motivated reasoning.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0258220","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,8]],"date-time":"2021-10-08T01:42:34Z","timestamp":1633657354000},"page":"e0258220","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["The populist hotbed: How political attitudes, resentment, and justice beliefs predict both exposure to and avoidance of specific populist news features in the United States"],"prefix":"10.1371","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4730-1575","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Sebastian","family":"Scherr","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3862-3399","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Dominik","family":"Leiner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"340","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,7]]},"reference":[{"issue":"4","key":"pone.0258220.ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"541","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1477-7053.2004.00135.x","article-title":"The populist zeitgeist","volume":"39","author":"C. 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