'If This account is True, It is Most Enormously Wonderful': Interestingness-If-True and the Sharing of True and False News
| Autor: | Emma de Araujo, Sacha Altay, Hugo Mercier |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Institut Jean-Nicod (IJN), Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS Paris (DEC), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département de Philosophie - ENS Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL) |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Social and Personality Psychology|Social Cognition
Computer science Internet privacy InformationSystems_INFORMATIONSTORAGEANDRETRIEVAL 050801 communication & media studies 050105 experimental psychology [SCCO]Cognitive science 03 medical and health sciences 0508 media and communications 0302 clinical medicine Social media 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences News sharing Misinformation PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Social and Personality Psychology Accuracy bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology Fake News business.industry Communication 05 social sciences PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology other bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology|Social Psychology bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology|Personality and Social Contexts Interestingness-if-true Fake news InformationSystems_MISCELLANEOUS business Social Media 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Digital Journalism Digital Journalism, Routledge, 2021, pp.1-22. ⟨10.1080/21670811.2021.1941163⟩ |
| ISSN: | 2167-0811 2167-082X |
| DOI: | 10.6084/m9.figshare.16432424.v1 |
| Popis: | International audience; Why would people share news they think might not be accurate? We identify a factor that, alongside accuracy, drives the sharing of true and fake news: the 'interestingness-if-true' of a piece of news. In three pre-registered experiments (N = 904), participants were presented with a series of true and fake news, and asked to rate the accuracy of the news, how interesting the news would be if it were true, and how likely they would be to share it. Participants were more willing to share news they found more interesting-if-true, as well as news they deemed more accurate. They deemed fake news less accurate but more interesting-if-true than true news, and were more likely to share true news than fake news. As expected, interestingnessif-true differed from interestingness and accuracy, and had good face validity. Higher trust in mass media was associated with a greater ability to discern true from fake news, and participants rated as more accurate news that they had already been exposed to (especially for true news). We argue that people may not share news of questionable accuracy by mistake, but instead because the news has qualities that compensate for its potential inaccuracy, such as being interesting-if-true. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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