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Addressing Behaviors That Lead to Sharing Fake News

Behavior and Social Issues

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Title Addressing Behaviors That Lead to Sharing Fake News
 
Creator Tsipursky, Gleb
Morford, Zachary
 
Subject Behavior Analysis
fake news, misinformation, post-truth, alternative facts
 
Description Some recent behavioral science research has shown why people lie, and how we can prevent them from lying. Given the alarming amount of fake news in the US public sphere, a group of behavioral science experts has sought to combine the available research in a proposed intervention, the Pro-Truth Pledge, to help address this problem. The pledge asks signees to commit to 12 behaviors that research in behavioral science shows correlate with an orientation toward truthfulness. Early results show both that private citizens and public figures are willing to take the pledge, and self-reported and external observations of present case study exhibit evidence of the effectiveness of the pledge.
 
Publisher University of Illinois at Chicago Library
 
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Date 2018-02-15
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/8186
10.5210/bsi.v27i0.8186
 
Source Behavior and Social Issues; Vol 27 (2018); AA6-AA10
1064-9506
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/8186/6655
 
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