True or false? Linguistic and demographic factors influence veracity judgment of COVID-19 rumors
Abstract Rumors about COVID-19 have been prevalent around the world during the pandemic. Using a veracity judgment task, the present study investigates whether young adults (N = 112) demonstrated measurable differences in processing COVID-19 rumors during the pandemic. They were instructed to read a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2024-03-01
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Series: | Humanities & Social Sciences Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02935-4 |