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Refuting Spurious COVID-19 Treatment Claims Reduces Demand and Misinformation Sharing

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a surge of health misinformation, which has had serious consequences including direct harm and opportunity costs. We investigated (N = 678) the impact of such misinformation on hypothetical demand (i.e., willingness-to-pay) for an unproven treatment, and propensity to...

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Autores principales: MacFarlane, Douglas, Tay, Li Qian, Hurlstone, Mark J., Ecker, Ullrich K.H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7771267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391983
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.12.005