Narrative elaboration makes misinformation and corrective information regarding COVID-19 more believable

OBJECTIVE: People gather information about health topics from online channels oftentimes awash with misinformation. Investigating this problem during the COVID-19 pandemic is important, as the misinformation effect occurs when misleading details are embedded in narratives and questions. This pilot s...

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Autores principales: Greer, Joanna, Fitzgerald, Kaitlyn, Vijaykumar, Santosh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9241297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35765114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-06134-9
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description OBJECTIVE: People gather information about health topics from online channels oftentimes awash with misinformation. Investigating this problem during the COVID-19 pandemic is important, as the misinformation effect occurs when misleading details are embedded in narratives and questions. This pilot study investigated whether narrative elaboration increases believability in misinformation statements about COVID-19, and willingness to share these statements online. RESULTS: Results from our online survey (n = 80) demonstrated that narrative elaboration increased believability in both misinformation and accurate statements, with a more pronounced effect on younger adults. Future research may investigate cognitive vulnerabilities imposed by elaborate narratives embedded in online health misinformation with increased attention on developing misinformation resilience among younger adults. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-022-06134-9.
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spelling pubmed-92412972022-06-30 Narrative elaboration makes misinformation and corrective information regarding COVID-19 more believable Greer, Joanna Fitzgerald, Kaitlyn Vijaykumar, Santosh BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: People gather information about health topics from online channels oftentimes awash with misinformation. Investigating this problem during the COVID-19 pandemic is important, as the misinformation effect occurs when misleading details are embedded in narratives and questions. This pilot study investigated whether narrative elaboration increases believability in misinformation statements about COVID-19, and willingness to share these statements online. RESULTS: Results from our online survey (n = 80) demonstrated that narrative elaboration increased believability in both misinformation and accurate statements, with a more pronounced effect on younger adults. Future research may investigate cognitive vulnerabilities imposed by elaborate narratives embedded in online health misinformation with increased attention on developing misinformation resilience among younger adults. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-022-06134-9. BioMed Central 2022-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9241297/ /pubmed/35765114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-06134-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Narrative elaboration makes misinformation and corrective information regarding COVID-19 more believable
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title_full Narrative elaboration makes misinformation and corrective information regarding COVID-19 more believable
title_fullStr Narrative elaboration makes misinformation and corrective information regarding COVID-19 more believable
title_full_unstemmed Narrative elaboration makes misinformation and corrective information regarding COVID-19 more believable
title_short Narrative elaboration makes misinformation and corrective information regarding COVID-19 more believable
title_sort narrative elaboration makes misinformation and corrective information regarding covid-19 more believable
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9241297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35765114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-06134-9
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