Who falls for fake news? - Related to the 2016 US election

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  brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 40,773

  May 2018

  "This suggests that factors that undermine the legitimacy of traditional news media may exacerbate the problem of inaccurate political beliefs among Trump supporters, who engaged in less analytic thinking and were overall less able to discern fake from real news (regardless of the news’ political valence). "
  
  Any surprise there. lol?
  

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  Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165

  May 2018

  Yeah some of the findings should come at no surprise but there are some interesting findings such as what you just quoted.

  Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  

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  brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 40,773

  May 2018

  Thoughts_Arrive said:

  Yeah some of the findings should come at no surprise but there are some interesting findings such as what you just quoted.

  Good article.  Cool that your University would pursue this subject!
  

  “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

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  cincybearcat Posts: 16,119

  May 2018

  Thoughts_Arrive said:

  I just finished reading a psychology research paper on fake news which I was required to do for my university subject. Very, very interesting.
  Here is the link to it, you can download it. It's 43 pages long. If you don't really understand all the experimental and statistical jargon just read the discussion section and/or the abstract.
  *note it is not peer-reviewed, I couldn't find a peer-reviewed copy but nonetheless an interesting and informative read
  
  https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=767068083087006031020108090077005103054050034080045061126005091094000086113123087124011002034032054015113002122116072079065113107041047029074101005095076107098024104051055083096083006006114103089011086115075103014030098101021093082102010090064083127102&EXT=pdf
  

  Not peer-reviewed? Than it's fake news!!!!
  
  I'll still take a look.

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  Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165

  May 2018

  cincybearcat said:

  Thoughts_Arrive said:

  I just finished reading a psychology research paper on fake news which I was required to do for my university subject. Very, very interesting.
  Here is the link to it, you can download it. It's 43 pages long. If you don't really understand all the experimental and statistical jargon just read the discussion section and/or the abstract.
  *note it is not peer-reviewed, I couldn't find a peer-reviewed copy but nonetheless an interesting and informative read
  
  https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=767068083087006031020108090077005103054050034080045061126005091094000086113123087124011002034032054015113002122116072079065113107041047029074101005095076107098024104051055083096083006006114103089011086115075103014030098101021093082102010090064083127102&EXT=pdf
  

  Not peer-reviewed? Than it's fake news!!!!
  
  I'll still take a look.

  Haha.
  I asked my lecturer yesterday and she said the peer-review process takes quite some time. 
  

  Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  

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