A Story is Better Told With Collective Interests: An Experimental Examination of Misinformation Correction During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To examine strategies that help motivate social correction behaviors to combat COVID-19-related health misinformation on social media.

Design

2 (message types: narrative vs statistics) x 2 (social frames: individual vs collective) between-subjects experiment.

Setting

Qualtrics-based online experiment via Lucid.

Subjects

The final sample consisted of 450 participants (M_age = 45.31).

Measures

Manipulation check, discussion and correction intentions, and need for cognition (NFC).

Analysis

ANCOVA and PROCESS model 3 were used to analyze the data.

Results

Significant interaction effects emerged between message types and social frames on discussion intention, F (1, 442) = 5.26, P = .022, and correcti

SUBMITTER: Xiao X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10265266 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature