Seeing meaning even when none may exist
Collectivism increases belief in empty claims
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6202500 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ying Lin (0000-0003-4979-940X), Y Charles Zhang (0000-0001-7175-1491), Daphna Oyserman (0000-0002-2727-2167) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 351-366 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/pspa0000280 |
| PMID | 34618475 |
| OpenAlex | W3202592957 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 27 |
> 16,000 from the United States and China) support our prediction. People who score higher in collectivism (valuing connection and fitting in) are more likely to find fake news meaningful and believe in pseudoscience (Studies 1 to 3). China-U.S. cross-national comparisons show parallel effects. Relative to people from the United States, Chinese participants are more likely to see meaning in randomly generated vague claims (Study 4). People higher in collectivism are more likely to engage in meaning-making, generating explanations when faced with an empty claim, and having done so, are more likely to find meaning (Study 5). People who momentarily experience themselves as more collectivistic are more likely to see empty claims as meaningful (Study 6). People higher in collectivism are more likely to engage in meaning-making unless there is no common ground to seek (Study 7). We interpret our results as suggesting that conditions that trigger collectivism create fertile territory for the spread of empty claims, including fake news and misinformation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Collectivism · Common ground · Individualism · Meaning (existential) · Misinformation · Political science · PsycINFO · Value (mathematics) · Law · Media Influence and Health · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · 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 |