To correct or not to correct? Social identity threats increase willingness to denounce fake news through presumed media influence and hostile media perceptions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21577286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth L Cohen (0000-0002-4967-1679, West Virginia University, corresponding author), Anita Atwell Seate (0000-0003-2785-6645), Stephen M Kromka (0000-0002-8883-7168), Andrew Sutherland (0000-0001-7907-5766), Matthew Thomas (0000-0002-5331-6768), Matthew W Thomas (0000-0002-2068-0360), Karissa Skerda, Andrew Nicholson (0000-0002-9304-5210) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 263-275 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication Research Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0882-4096 • E-ISSN: 1746-4099 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08824096.2020.1841622 |
| OpenAlex | W3106841467 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 25 |
Social network site users report being concerned about Fake news, but little is understood about what motivates them to denounce it when they knowingly encounter it. An online experiment showed that the presence of a political ingroup social identity threat in fake news content indirectly affected participants’ willingness to publicly denounce a fake news article by decreasing presumed media influence but increasing hostile media perceptions
Advertising · Fake news · Ingroups and outgroups · Perception · Political science · Social group · Social identity theory · Social media · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 3,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |