Icing on the Cake: "Amplification Effect" of Innovative Information Form in News Reports About COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: In the information era, the instant and diversified broadcasting of the COVID-19 pandemic has played an important role in stabilizing the societal mental state and avoiding inter-group conflicts. The presentation of visual graphics was considered as an innovative information form and broadly utilized in news reports. However, its effects on the audiences' cognition and behaviors have received little empirical attention. The current study applied real-time and retrospective priming paradigms to examine the impacts of information framing (positive vs. negative) and form (plain text vs. pie chart) on individuals' risk perception (cognition), positive emotion (emotion), and willingness to help others (behavioral intention) during the outbreak and post-pandemic period in China. The results indi

SUBMITTER: Wen F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7917205 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature