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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Main Authors: Cun Fu, Jinru Zhang, Xin Kang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2024-03-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02935-4