What Should I Trust? Individual Differences in Attitudes to Conflicting Information and Misinformation on COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a novel threat and traditional and new media provide people with an abundance of information and misinformation on the topic. In the current study, we investigated who tends to trust what type of mis/information. The data were collected in Norway from a sample of 405 participants during the first wave of COVID-19 in April 2020. We focused on three kinds of belief: the belief that the threat is overrated (COVID-threat skepticism), the belief that the threat is underrated (COVID-threat belief) and belief in misinformation about COVID-19. We studied sociodemographic factors associated with these beliefs and the interplay between attitudes to COVID-19, media consumption and prevention behavior. All three types of belief were associated with distrust in informa

SUBMITTER: Filkukova P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8262492 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature