The effects of emotions, individual attitudes towards vaccination, and social endorsements on perceived fake news credibility and sharing motivations

Ali, Khudejah; Liu, Cong; Zain-ul-abdin, Khawaja; Muqtadir, Syed Ali

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2022.107307

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“…Fourth, activating bystanders offers a unique opportunity to leverage the structure of social media to propagate high-quality information beyond the individual thread and infodemiologist. Misinformation is well known to propagate faster than truth ( Vosoughi et al, 2018 ) and does so often because it is more emotionally engaging ( Ali et al, 2022 ). High-quality information on social media can easily be drowned out by other attention-grabbing items like those produced by other users in the online network ( Kümpel, 2021 ; Young & Miller, 2021 ).…”

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Community-oriented Motivational Interviewing (MI): A novel framework extending MI to address COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in online social media platforms

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Computers in Human Behavior

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Community-oriented Motivational Interviewing (MI): A novel framework extending MI to address COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in online social media platforms

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Computers in Human Behavior

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“…This confirms the usefulness of intervention strategies aimed at promoting healthy critical behavior (e.g., actively examining information and seeking out credible sources of information) in response to the current infodemic. However, social media literacy programs focus mainly on vigilance, i.e., the cognitive ability to critically analyze news, and ignore the crucial role of emotions in decision making [ 94 , 95 ], which may explain why such interventions have had limited success in countering conspiracy theories. Our findings highlight the urgent need for a multimodal approach that not only targets cognitive factors but can also improve emotion regulation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Emotion Dysregulation and Conspiracy Beliefs about COVID-19: The Moderating Role of Critical Social Media Use

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Pinto

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As COVID-19 has spread worldwide, conspiracy theories have proliferated rapidly on social media platforms, adversely affecting public health. For this reason, media literacy interventions have been highly recommended, although the impact of critical social media use on the development of COVID-19 conspiracy theories has not yet been empirically studied. Moreover, emotional dysregulation may play another crucial role in the development of such theories, as they are often associated with stress, anxiety, lack of control, and other negative emotions. Therefore, the aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that emotion dysregulation would be positively associated with conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 and that critical use of social media would attenuate this association. Data from 930 Italian participants (339 men and 591 women) were collected online during the third wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. A moderated model was tested using the PROCESS Macro for SPSS. Results showed that: (1) emotion dysregulation and critical social media use accounted for a significant proportion of the variance in conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19; and (2) critical social media use moderated the effect of emotion dysregulation on conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19. Implications for preventing the spread of conspiracy theories are discussed.

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“…Hesitation to vaccinate against COVID-19 occurred in several countries and the spread of misinformation and fake news on social media fueled public concern about the potential side effects of vaccination and its actual effectiveness [25]. This reluctance has occurred in Bangladesh [26], France [27][28], Western Europe [29], Israel [30], the United States of America (USA) [31], Pakistan [32], Ireland and in the United Kingdom [33] and Brazil, including in relation to childhood vaccination [34], among other places. Research into the main factors involved in vaccine hesitancy in general has shown that these include mistrust, misinformation, belief in conspiracy theories and negative attitudes towards vaccines [35].…”

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Fake News and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Repercussions on Nursing Assistance

Silveira¹

2022

Corpus J Clin Trials

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Objective: To carry out a theoretical reflection on how fake news related to the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on health and nursing care. Method: theoretical-reflective study about fake news related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on health and nursing care. To search for articles/texts, the descriptors Fake News, COVID-19, Coronavirus Infections, Health Repercussions extracted from Descriptors in Health Sciences (DeCS) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) were used in Portuguese and English. and the keyword Repercussions in Nursing. The search took place in scientific databases and databases, with a thorough reading of articles related to the theme. Results and Discussion: Three guiding points/categories were elaborated to support the theoretical-reflective text of this article: “The Fake News in the COVID-19 pandemic”; “Some interferences of Fake News in the population”, with four subdivided categories and the last category “The impact on nursing care.” Final considerations: discrediting the recommendations of health professionals, especially nurses, had an impact on their health due to the stress they experienced, the disrespect and the violence they suffered, in the face of disbelief in relation to the correct guidelines that they verbalized and followed. It is understood that educational programs to stimulate critical thinking and online behavior are important strategies for the management of Fake News, helping to further prevent the dissemination of erroneous information about relevant topics related to the pandemic.

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The effects of emotions, individual attitudes towards vaccination, and social endorsements on perceived fake news credibility and sharing motivations

Cited by 34 publications

References 115 publications

Community-oriented Motivational Interviewing (MI): A novel framework extending MI to address COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in online social media platforms

Community-oriented Motivational Interviewing (MI): A novel framework extending MI to address COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in online social media platforms

Emotion Dysregulation and Conspiracy Beliefs about COVID-19: The Moderating Role of Critical Social Media Use

Fake News and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Repercussions on Nursing Assistance

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