Taeyoung Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 4448734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Taeyoung Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Taeyoung |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1657-678X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Validation of the Korean version of the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale
Background The use of prescription opioids has risen dramatically in South Korea in recent years; however, there is no standardized Korean-language instrument to assess opioid withdrawal. The Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) is a widely used clinician-rated measure for assessing the severity of opioid withdrawal. We aimed to validate the Korean version of the COWS (K-COWS) among patients receiving opioid therapy. Methods We translated and …
Disentangling the Two Cognitive Outcomes of Corrective Information
The present study explored the effects of fact-checks through the lens of learning and persuasion by measuring recall and belief accuracy as outcome variables. This study also examined how individuals’ motivational, cognitive, and political factors play in shaping each process, both independently and together. Results showed a disconnect between what people remember and what they believe upon exposure to corrective messages, suggesting that learn…
Understanding Public Concerns About Fake News
Over the past decade, the exponential growth of information consumption through social media has reshaped the media landscape in most liberal democracies. This shift has introduced significant challenges, particularly the spread of fake news and growing concerns—whether real or perceived—about its potential effects. In this study, we propose an overarching moderated mediation model to explain citizens’ concerns about fake news. Drawing on panel s…
Connective action in Myanmar
While scholars have studied democratic backsliding in the West, rapid democratic backsliding in the Global South is relatively underexplored, and the role of social media is unclear. Through a mixed-methods analysis of pro and anti-military Facebook and Telegram posts and offline protests and state violence in the backsliding democracy of Myanmar, our research expands current understandings of connective action in the Global South. Supported by b…
What Drives Belief in Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories? Examining the Role of Uncertainty, Negative Emotions, and Perceived Relevance and Threat
As conspiracy theories around COVID-19 pose a big global challenge to public health and well-being, this study seeks to identify how and when people are likely to activate conspiratorial thinking and believe in conspiracy theories about the coronavirus. Based on a U.S. national two-wave survey (W1: N = 1,119; W2: N = 543), this study found partial support for direct effects of uncertainty on conspiratorial thinking and support for indirect effect…
Attacks Against Journalists in Brazil
Attacks on journalists have become a growing concern in democracies around the world. Past scholarship suggests that such attacks could lead to a chilling effect of journalists self-censoring their reporting. However, there is limited empirical work that substantiates the effects of attacks on journalists. To empirically test the existence of chilling effects, this mixed-methods study uses the conditions of journalism under Jair Bolsonaro’s gover…
How social media users become misinformed
This study explores the role of the news-finds-me (NFM) perception—the belief that people can be well-informed without actively seeking news due to their social networks—in fostering social media users’ inaccurate beliefs about COVID-19. Findings from a US national survey ( N = 1003) suggest that NFM perception is positively associated with belief in COVID-19 misinformation and mediates the positive relationship between social media use and false…
Signaling News Outlet Credibility in a Google Search
This study extends the literature on how transparency influences news credibility perceptions by examining trust signals at the news outlet level, rather than at the story level, as earlier research has done. Experiments in the United States ( n = 1,037) and Germany ( n = 1,000) found that exposure to trust signals in a Google search about a known news brand, rather than an unknown brand, and the German cultural context increased news credibility…
Selectively sharing satirical news
States vs. Social Movements
This study considers how governments use state-sponsored propaganda and state violence in tandem to repress social movements and, in so doing, exacerbate polarization. We specifically focus on cases in young and non-democracies in East and Southeast Asia: China and Hong Kong, the Free Papua Movement in Indonesia, and Myanmar’s more recent coup. Using a time series analysis, our analysis reveals a temporal relationship between state propaganda and…
You Can’t Handle the Lies
This study examined the third-person perception (TPP) in terms of the influence of fake news through the lens of the Gamson hypothesis – the combination of political trust and political self-efficacy – and how the perception may affect one’s fake news sharing behavior. Data from a national survey (N = 1,024) indicates that Dissidents (low political trust, high political self-efficacy) who are likely to perceive greater exposure to fake news are l…
Politically Contested Beliefs
The COVID-19 pandemic poses an unprecedented risk to society. Studies suggested that people's beliefs about COVID-19 are divided depending on partisan affiliations. Building on the belief gap hypothesis, this study adopts a nationally representative survey (N = 1,119) to examine whether political identity or support for Trump is more strongly related to having false beliefs about COVID-19. Results showed that support for Trump is a better predict…
Navigating the Coronavirus Infodemic
The present study explores the relationship between the need for orientation (NFO) and knowledge/misperception about COVID-19 using a two-wave panel survey of U.S. adults (W1: N = 1,119; W2: N = 543). The findings suggest that moderate-active NFO rather than high NFO better predicts individuals’ level of knowledge and misperception. We also found that different media use (vertical media and horizontal media) and individuals’ epistemic beliefs (in…
Signaling news outlet trust in a Google Knowledge Panel
Using data from a conjoint experiment in three countries (Brazil, n = 2038; Germany, n = 2012, and the United States, n = 2005), this study demonstrates that journalistic transparency can cue trust at the level of the entire news outlet—or domain level—using a Google Knowledge Panel that comes up when people search for a news outlet. In Brazil and the United States, two pieces of information in a Knowledge Panel provided the strongest heuristics …
How people perceive influence of fake news and why it matters
Employing theoretical frameworks regarding people’s perception of media effects (e.g. third-person effect), this study examines how people perceive the effects of fake news, what may lead to these perceptions, and how people act on them. Findings from an online survey provide evidence that people perceive fake news to have negative influence on themselves and others, with greater influence on others than themselves. This study revealed that the e…
How social media users become misinformed
This study explores the role of the news-finds-me (NFM) perception—the belief that people can be well-informed without actively seeking news due to their social networks—in fostering social media users’ inaccurate beliefs about COVID-19. Findings from a US national survey ( N = 1003) suggest that NFM perception is positively associated with belief in COVID-19 misinformation and mediates the positive relationship between social media use and false…
Attacks Against Journalists in Brazil
Attacks on journalists have become a growing concern in democracies around the world. Past scholarship suggests that such attacks could lead to a chilling effect of journalists self-censoring their reporting. However, there is limited empirical work that substantiates the effects of attacks on journalists. To empirically test the existence of chilling effects, this mixed-methods study uses the conditions of journalism under Jair Bolsonaro’s gover…
You Can’t Handle the Lies
This study examined the third-person perception (TPP) in terms of the influence of fake news through the lens of the Gamson hypothesis – the combination of political trust and political self-efficacy – and how the perception may affect one’s fake news sharing behavior. Data from a national survey (N = 1,024) indicates that Dissidents (low political trust, high political self-efficacy) who are likely to perceive greater exposure to fake news are l…
Navigating the Coronavirus Infodemic
The present study explores the relationship between the need for orientation (NFO) and knowledge/misperception about COVID-19 using a two-wave panel survey of U.S. adults (W1: N = 1,119; W2: N = 543). The findings suggest that moderate-active NFO rather than high NFO better predicts individuals’ level of knowledge and misperception. We also found that different media use (vertical media and horizontal media) and individuals’ epistemic beliefs (in…
How people perceive influence of fake news and why it matters
Employing theoretical frameworks regarding people’s perception of media effects (e.g. third-person effect), this study examines how people perceive the effects of fake news, what may lead to these perceptions, and how people act on them. Findings from an online survey provide evidence that people perceive fake news to have negative influence on themselves and others, with greater influence on others than themselves. This study revealed that the e…
Signaling News Outlet Credibility in a Google Search
This study extends the literature on how transparency influences news credibility perceptions by examining trust signals at the news outlet level, rather than at the story level, as earlier research has done. Experiments in the United States ( n = 1,037) and Germany ( n = 1,000) found that exposure to trust signals in a Google search about a known news brand, rather than an unknown brand, and the German cultural context increased news credibility…
Selectively sharing satirical news
States vs. Social Movements
This study considers how governments use state-sponsored propaganda and state violence in tandem to repress social movements and, in so doing, exacerbate polarization. We specifically focus on cases in young and non-democracies in East and Southeast Asia: China and Hong Kong, the Free Papua Movement in Indonesia, and Myanmar’s more recent coup. Using a time series analysis, our analysis reveals a temporal relationship between state propaganda and…
You Can’t Handle the Lies
This study examined the third-person perception (TPP) in terms of the influence of fake news through the lens of the Gamson hypothesis – the combination of political trust and political self-efficacy – and how the perception may affect one’s fake news sharing behavior. Data from a national survey (N = 1,024) indicates that Dissidents (low political trust, high political self-efficacy) who are likely to perceive greater exposure to fake news are l…
Politically Contested Beliefs
The COVID-19 pandemic poses an unprecedented risk to society. Studies suggested that people's beliefs about COVID-19 are divided depending on partisan affiliations. Building on the belief gap hypothesis, this study adopts a nationally representative survey (N = 1,119) to examine whether political identity or support for Trump is more strongly related to having false beliefs about COVID-19. Results showed that support for Trump is a better predict…
Navigating the Coronavirus Infodemic
The present study explores the relationship between the need for orientation (NFO) and knowledge/misperception about COVID-19 using a two-wave panel survey of U.S. adults (W1: N = 1,119; W2: N = 543). The findings suggest that moderate-active NFO rather than high NFO better predicts individuals’ level of knowledge and misperception. We also found that different media use (vertical media and horizontal media) and individuals’ epistemic beliefs (in…
Signaling news outlet trust in a Google Knowledge Panel
Using data from a conjoint experiment in three countries (Brazil, n = 2038; Germany, n = 2012, and the United States, n = 2005), this study demonstrates that journalistic transparency can cue trust at the level of the entire news outlet—or domain level—using a Google Knowledge Panel that comes up when people search for a news outlet. In Brazil and the United States, two pieces of information in a Knowledge Panel provided the strongest heuristics …
What Drives Belief in Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories? Examining the Role of Uncertainty, Negative Emotions, and Perceived Relevance and Threat
As conspiracy theories around COVID-19 pose a big global challenge to public health and well-being, this study seeks to identify how and when people are likely to activate conspiratorial thinking and believe in conspiracy theories about the coronavirus. Based on a U.S. national two-wave survey (W1: N = 1,119; W2: N = 543), this study found partial support for direct effects of uncertainty on conspiratorial thinking and support for indirect effect…
Attacks Against Journalists in Brazil
Attacks on journalists have become a growing concern in democracies around the world. Past scholarship suggests that such attacks could lead to a chilling effect of journalists self-censoring their reporting. However, there is limited empirical work that substantiates the effects of attacks on journalists. To empirically test the existence of chilling effects, this mixed-methods study uses the conditions of journalism under Jair Bolsonaro’s gover…
How social media users become misinformed
This study explores the role of the news-finds-me (NFM) perception—the belief that people can be well-informed without actively seeking news due to their social networks—in fostering social media users’ inaccurate beliefs about COVID-19. Findings from a US national survey ( N = 1003) suggest that NFM perception is positively associated with belief in COVID-19 misinformation and mediates the positive relationship between social media use and false…
Connective action in Myanmar
While scholars have studied democratic backsliding in the West, rapid democratic backsliding in the Global South is relatively underexplored, and the role of social media is unclear. Through a mixed-methods analysis of pro and anti-military Facebook and Telegram posts and offline protests and state violence in the backsliding democracy of Myanmar, our research expands current understandings of connective action in the Global South. Supported by b…
Validation of the Korean version of the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale
Background The use of prescription opioids has risen dramatically in South Korea in recent years; however, there is no standardized Korean-language instrument to assess opioid withdrawal. The Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) is a widely used clinician-rated measure for assessing the severity of opioid withdrawal. We aimed to validate the Korean version of the COWS (K-COWS) among patients receiving opioid therapy. Methods We translated and …
Disentangling the Two Cognitive Outcomes of Corrective Information
The present study explored the effects of fact-checks through the lens of learning and persuasion by measuring recall and belief accuracy as outcome variables. This study also examined how individuals’ motivational, cognitive, and political factors play in shaping each process, both independently and together. Results showed a disconnect between what people remember and what they believe upon exposure to corrective messages, suggesting that learn…
Understanding Public Concerns About Fake News
Over the past decade, the exponential growth of information consumption through social media has reshaped the media landscape in most liberal democracies. This shift has introduced significant challenges, particularly the spread of fake news and growing concerns—whether real or perceived—about its potential effects. In this study, we propose an overarching moderated mediation model to explain citizens’ concerns about fake news. Drawing on panel s…
Political science (10 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Perception (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Advertising (4 works)