Cun Fu

Biographic Data

ID8832636
NAMECun Fu
GIVEN NAMESCun
FAMILY NAMEFu
SIGNATUREFU C
AFFILIATIONSChongqing University
ORCID0009-0009-0237-3875
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Does language matter? The influence of linguistic ambiguity on bilinguals’ susceptibility to misinformation

    Ruihong Li, Bo Chen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Multilingual and…2026

    This study investigates how language context and linguistic ambiguity interact to shape bilinguals’ susceptibility to misinformation. While foreign language use has been linked to changes in judgement and decision-making, its role in misinformation detection remains contested. To address this, a sample of 229 Chinese-English bilinguals evaluated several misinformation statements in a 2 (Language: L1 vs. L2) × 2 (Linguistic Ambiguity: Low vs. High…

  • True or false? Linguistic and demographic factors influence veracity judgment of Covid-19 rumors

    Open AccessCun Fu, Jinru Zhang et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2024

    Rumors about COVID-19 have been prevalent around the world during the pandemic. Using a veracity judgment task, the present study investigates whether young adults ( N = 112) demonstrated measurable differences in processing COVID-19 rumors during the pandemic. They were instructed to read a statement related to COVID-19 and then to evaluate whether it was true or false. We examine the influence of the content characteristics of the statement and…

  • Linguistic indicators for predicting the veracity of online health rumors

    Open AccessJingyi Zhao, Cun FuARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    This study aims to examine the role of language in discerning the authenticity of online health rumors. To achieve this goal, it specifically focuses on analyzing five categories of linguistic indicators: (1) emotional language characterized by sentiment words, sensory words, and continuous punctuations, (2) exaggerated language defined by the presence of extreme numbers and extreme adverbs, (3) personalized language denoted by first-person prono…

  • Content characteristics predict the putative authenticity of Covid-19 rumors

    Open AccessJingyi Zhao, Cun Fu et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Rumors regarding COVID-19 have been prevalent on the Internet and affect the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using 1,296 COVID-19 rumors collected from an online platform ( piyao.org.cn ) in China, we found measurable differences in the content characteristics between true and false rumors. We revealed that the length of a rumor's headline is negatively related to the probability of a rumor being true [odds ratio ( OR ) = 0.37, 95% CI (0.30, 0.…