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

Thoughts_Arrive · May 2018

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*note it is not peer-reviewed, I couldn't find a peer-reviewed copy but nonetheless an interesting and informative read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

brianlux · 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?

Thoughts_Arrive · May 2018

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

brianlux · 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!

cincybearcat · 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*note it is not peer-reviewed, I couldn't find a peer-reviewed copy but nonetheless an interesting and informative read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Not peer-reviewed?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.

Thoughts_Arrive · 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.

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

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