Young people evaluating online information credibility. Special issue synthesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21562966 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicolae Nistor (0000-0002-9956-1670, Babeș-Bolyai University), Yonty Friesem (0000-0002-8463-7660, Columbia College Chicago), Cristina Nistor (0000-0001-6345-7380, Babeș-Bolyai University), Rareş Beuran (0000-0003-3844-7708, Babeș-Bolyai University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 185 |
| Pages | 109086 |
| Publication date | 2026-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Computers in Human Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0747-5632 • E-ISSN: 1873-7692 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.chb.2026.109086 |
| OpenAlex | W7165196436 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 43 |
In response to current threats of mis- and disinformation in the contemporary digital society, the special issue of Computers in Human Behaviors entitled “Young people evaluating online information credibility” aimed at uniting articles that address two research questions from a psychological and educational perspective: What kind of cognitive processes are responsible for accurate information credibility evaluation? How can such processes be initiated and supported? The invited papers concentrated on long-term cognitive processes, strategies, and training approaches integrated in educational contexts, rather than short-term processes in the laboratory. After providing a brief overview of the included papers, we address the question why such research is needed, for which we focus on the case of the annulled presidential elections 2024 in Romania that illustrates the consequences of disinformation on democratic societies. To conclude from a broader perspective, we describe two categories of interventions aimed at countering misinformation: protectionist interventions and empowering interventions. The latter category is illustrated by the papers included in this special issue
Cognition · Credibility · Democracy · Digital divide · Disinformation · Psychological intervention · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Social Media and Politics
An advanced test of theory of mind
An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust
Cross-ideological acceptance of the illiberal narrative of the 2019 Hong Kong protests in Japan
Inoculation theory
Intellectual humility – an important content-transcendent goal for science education
Online teaching and learning in higher education
Young people and false information
What does more and less effective internet evaluation entail
Knowledge types and cognitive processing modes associated with online news credibility assessment
How do source evaluation criteria develop? A microgenetic study of growth of epistemic ideals
Advanced theory of mind predicts adolescents’ evaluation of source benevolence while reading
Storifying instructional videos on online credibility evaluation
Building resilience against online misinformation
Scaffolding source evaluation during document-based scientific inquiry
The Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement
An Analysis of Studies Testing Digital Interventions to Inoculate Against Misinformation
Misinformation is a symptom
Electoral dynamics in the age of disinformation
Factors Influencing Voting Decision
Caught in the Nexus
Disinformation as a context-bound phenomenon
Television in the Age of (Post) Communism
Misinformation is both a symptom and a cause
Information gaps in persuasion knowledge
Misinformation on Misinformation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |