Cognitive Processes and Personality Traits Underlying Four Phenotypes of Susceptibility to (Mis)Information.

ABSTRACT: Misinformation on social media poses a serious threat to democracy, sociopolitical stability, and mental health. Thus, it is crucial to investigate the nature of cognitive mechanisms and personality traits that contribute to the assessment of news items' veracity, failures in the discernment of their truthfulness, and behavioral engagement with the news, especially if one wants to devise any intervention to stop the spread of misinformation in social media. The current research aimed to develop and test a 4-fold taxonomy classifying people into four distinct phenotypes of susceptibility to (mis)information. In doing so, it aimed to establish differences in cognitive and psychological profiles between these phenotypes. The investigated cognitive processes included sensitivity to feedback, b

SUBMITTER: Piksa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9240766 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature