Susceptibility to Online Misinformation: A Systematic Meta-Analysis of Demographic and Psychological Factors DOI Open Access
Mubashir Sultan, Alan Novaes Tump, Nina Ehmann

et al.

Published: May 3, 2024

Nearly five billion people use and receive news through social media there is widespread concern about the negative consequences of misinformation on (e.g., election interference, vaccine hesitancy). Despite a burgeoning body research misinformation, it remains largely unclear who susceptible to why. To address this, we conducted systematic individual participant data meta-analysis covering 256,337 unique choices made by 11,561 US-based participants across 31 experiments. Our reveals impact key demographic psychological factors online veracity judgments. We also disentangle ability discern between true false (discrimination ability) from response bias, that is, tendency label as either (true-news bias) or (false-news bias). Across all studies, were well above-chance accurate for both (68.51%) (67.24%) headlines. find older age, higher analytical thinking skills, identifying Democrat are associated with discrimination ability. Additionally, age skills false-news bias (caution). In contrast, ideological congruency (alignment participants’ ideology news), motivated reflection (higher being greater effect), self-reported familiarity true-news (naïvety). experiments MTurk show than those Lucid. Displaying sources alongside headlines improved ability, Republicans benefiting more source display. results provide critical insights can help inform design targeted interventions.

Language: Английский

Susceptibility to online misinformation: A systematic meta-analysis of demographic and psychological factors DOI Creative Commons
Mubashir Sultan, Alan Novaes Tump, Nina Ehmann

et al.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 121(47)

Published: Nov. 12, 2024

Nearly five billion people use and receive news through social media there is widespread concern about the negative consequences of misinformation on (e.g., election interference, vaccine hesitancy). Despite a burgeoning body research misinformation, it remains largely unclear who susceptible to why. To address this, we conducted systematic individual participant data meta-analysis covering 256,337 unique choices made by 11,561 US-based participants across 31 experiments. Our reveals impact key demographic psychological factors online veracity judgments. We also disentangle ability discern between true false (discrimination ability) from response bias, that is, tendency label as either (true-news bias) or (false-news bias). Across all studies, were well above-chance accurate for both (68.51%) (67.24%) headlines. find older age, higher analytical thinking skills, identifying Democrat are associated with discrimination ability. Additionally, age skills false-news bias (caution). In contrast, ideological congruency (alignment participants’ ideology news), motivated reflection (higher being greater effect), self-reported familiarity true-news (naïvety). experiments MTurk show than those Lucid. Displaying sources alongside headlines improved ability, Republicans benefiting more source display. results provide critical insights can help inform design targeted interventions.

Language: Английский

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Susceptibility to Online Misinformation: A Systematic Meta-Analysis of Demographic and Psychological Factors DOI Open Access
Mubashir Sultan, Alan Novaes Tump, Nina Ehmann

et al.

Published: May 3, 2024

Nearly five billion people use and receive news through social media there is widespread concern about the negative consequences of misinformation on (e.g., election interference, vaccine hesitancy). Despite a burgeoning body research misinformation, it remains largely unclear who susceptible to why. To address this, we conducted systematic individual participant data meta-analysis covering 256,337 unique choices made by 11,561 US-based participants across 31 experiments. Our reveals impact key demographic psychological factors online veracity judgments. We also disentangle ability discern between true false (discrimination ability) from response bias, that is, tendency label as either (true-news bias) or (false-news bias). Across all studies, were well above-chance accurate for both (68.51%) (67.24%) headlines. find older age, higher analytical thinking skills, identifying Democrat are associated with discrimination ability. Additionally, age skills false-news bias (caution). In contrast, ideological congruency (alignment participants’ ideology news), motivated reflection (higher being greater effect), self-reported familiarity true-news (naïvety). experiments MTurk show than those Lucid. Displaying sources alongside headlines improved ability, Republicans benefiting more source display. results provide critical insights can help inform design targeted interventions.

Language: Английский

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2