Stop and think! Exploring the role of news truth discernment ...

Stop and Think! Exploring the Role of News Truth Discernment ...

Our study aims to explore whether, how, and for whom a simple critical thinking recommendation added to a social media newsfeed can aid people to better ...

Stop and Think! Exploring the Role of News Truth Discernment ...

PDF | Covid-19-related fake news widely circulates on social media. This is problematic as people commonly do not process information on ...

Stop and Think! Exploring the Role of News Truth Discernment ...

Our study aims to explore whether, how, and for whom a simple critical thinking recommendation added to a social media newsfeed can aid people to better discern ...

Stop and think! Exploring the role of news truth discernment ...

Fake news, trust, news truth discernment, critical thinking recommendations, information literacy. Information about the Covid-19 pandemic is omnipresent on ...

Stop and think! Exploring the role of news truth discernment ...

Search UvA-DARE ; Faculty: Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) ; Institute: Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) ; Abstract. Covid-19- ...

Stop and Think! Exploring the Role of News Truth Discernment ...

Stop and Think! Exploring the Role of News Truth Discernment, Information Literacy, and Impulsivity in the Effect of Critical Thinking Recommendations on Trust ...

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The social media context interferes with truth discernment - Science

We test that claim by asking whether simply considering sharing news on social media reduces the extent to which people discriminate truth from falsehood when ...

The Use of Critical Thinking to Identify Fake News

Social media continues to contribute to the increasing distribution of user-generated information; this includes hoaxes, false claims, fabricated news and ...

A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between ...

Widespread belief in misinformation circulating online is a critical challenge for modern societies. While research to date has focused on psychological and ...

Happiness and surprise are associated with worse truth discernment ...

Do emotions we experience after reading headlines help us discern true from false information or cloud our judgement?

Distractions, analytical thinking and falling for fake news - Nature

This paper surveys the research done between 2016 and 2022 on psychological factors influencing one's susceptibility to believing or spreading fake news.

Credibility Divide? Discerning Truth From Misinformation in Chile

Abstract. Studies on misinformation often overlook people's assessment of true information, focusing instead on beliefs in and sharing of ...

Exploring the Threat of Fake News: Facts, Opinions, and Judgement

This article explores how fake news, variously described as misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and post-truth threatens our pluralistic democratic ...

Cognitive reflection is associated with greater truth discernment for ...

We find that higher cognitive reflection test (CRT) scores are associated with greater truth discernment for COVID-19 headlines, less trust but greater use of ...

Beyond “fake news”: Analytic thinking and the detection of false and ...

We found no evidence that analytic thinking was associated with judging politically consistent hyperpartisan or false headlines to be accurate and unbiased.

The Impact of Affect on the Perception of Fake News on Social Media

Social media platforms, which are ripe with emotionally charged pieces of information, are vulnerable to the dissemination of vast amounts of misinformation ...

Why we fall for fake news: Hijacked thinking or laziness?

A study by Dartmouth University computer scientist Soroush Vosoughi, PhD, and colleagues found that fake news reaches more people and ...

Dealing with propaganda, misinformation and fake news

Propaganda, misinformation and fake news have the potential to polarise public opinion, to promote violent extremism and hate speech and, ultimately, to ...

Review The Psychology of Fake News - ScienceDirect.com

Concern about fake news was redoubled in 2020 in the face of widespread misinformation and disinformation [2] on social media about the coronavirus disease 2019 ...