Can fake news really change behaviour? Evidence from a study of COVID-19 misinformation.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciara Greene ◽  
Gillian Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Real World ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Behavioural Intentions ◽  
The Real ◽  
News Stories

Previous research has argued that fake news may have grave consequences for health behaviour, but surprisingly, no empirical data have been provided to support this assumption. This issue takes on new urgency in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. In this large preregistered study (N = 3746) we investigated the effect of exposure to fabricated news stories about COVID-19 on related behavioural intentions. We observed small but measurable effects on some related behavioural intentions but not others – for example, participants who read a story about problems with a forthcoming contact-tracing app reported reduced willingness to download the app. We found no effects of providing a general warning about the dangers of online misinformation on response to the fake stories, regardless of the framing of the warning in positive or negative terms. We conclude with a call for more empirical research on the real-world consequences of fake news.

scholarly journals Feminist Judging in the 'Real World'

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1275-1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Real World ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The Real ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Tools And Techniques

The various feminist judgment projects (FJPs) have explored through the imagined rewriting of judgments a range of ways in which a feminist perspective may be applied to the practice of judging. But how do these imagined judgments compare to what actual feminist judges do? This article presents the results of the author’s empirical research to date on ‘real world’ feminist judging. Drawing on case study and interview data it explores the how, when and where of feminist judging, that is, the feminist resources, tools and techniques judges have drawn upon, the stages in the hearing and decision-making process at which these resources, tools and techniques have been deployed, and the areas of law in which they have been applied. The article goes on to consider observed and potential limits on feminist judicial practice, before drawing conclusions about the comparison between ‘real world’ feminist judging and the practices of FJPs. Los proyectos de sentencias feministas, a través de la reelaboración imaginaria de sentencias judiciales, han explorado multitud de vías en las que las perspectivas feministas se podrían aplicar a la práctica judicial. Pero ¿qué resulta de la comparación entre dichas sentencias y la práctica real de las juezas feministas? Este artículo presenta los resultados de la investigación empírica de la autora. Se analiza el cómo, el cuándo y el dónde de la labor judicial feminista, es decir, los recursos, herramientas y técnicas feministas que las juezas han utilizado, las fases de audiencia y toma de decisión en las que se han utilizado y las áreas del derecho en que se han aplicado. Además, se toman en consideración los límites observados y potenciales de la práctica judicial feminista, y se extraen conclusiones sobre la comparación entre la labor judicial feminista en el “mundo real” y la práctica de los proyectos de tribunales feministas.

scholarly journals The effects of repetition frequency on the illusory truth effect

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aumyo Hassan ◽  
Sarah J. Barber
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Repetition Frequency ◽  
Processing Fluency ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
The Real ◽  
Truth Effect ◽  
New Information ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Illusory Truth Effect

AbstractRepeated information is often perceived as more truthful than new information. This finding is known as the illusory truth effect, and it is typically thought to occur because repetition increases processing fluency. Because fluency and truth are frequently correlated in the real world, people learn to use processing fluency as a marker for truthfulness. Although the illusory truth effect is a robust phenomenon, almost all studies examining it have used three or fewer repetitions. To address this limitation, we conducted two experiments using a larger number of repetitions. In Experiment 1, we showed participants trivia statements up to 9 times and in Experiment 2 statements were shown up to 27 times. Later, participants rated the truthfulness of the previously seen statements and of new statements. In both experiments, we found that perceived truthfulness increased as the number of repetitions increased. However, these truth rating increases were logarithmic in shape. The largest increase in perceived truth came from encountering a statement for the second time, and beyond this were incrementally smaller increases in perceived truth for each additional repetition. These findings add to our theoretical understanding of the illusory truth effect and have applications for advertising, politics, and the propagation of “fake news.”

scholarly journals Fields of Impact of Social Media on Youth – Methodological Implications

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanisław Juszczyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Adolescent Development ◽  
Real World ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
The Real

Abstract Using social media Web sites is among the most common activities of today’s children and adolescents. Such sites offer today’s youth a portal for entertainment and communication, and have grown exponentially in recent years. Parents and teachers become aware of the nature of social media sites, thus they do not know that not all of them are healthy environments for children and adolescents. This field is important because pedagogists, psychologists and pediatrics need to understand how youth lives in a new, massive, and complex virtual universe, even as they carry on their lives in the real world. In the article I have presented a discussion of a few empirical research carried out by different authors to show various aspects of child and adolescent development in this virtual universe and to present the methodological implications of such types of studies.

scholarly journals The Net Generation’s Stories: A Typology

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-183
Author(s):  
Christina Schachtner
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
The Future

Abstract In this chapter, the empirical data are presented as a typology of narratives in which experiences and activities in virtual space and the real world are interwoven, along with ideas and wishes for the future, what has happened in the past, and what is happening in the present. They run like a subterranean web through the narrators’ lives, initiating patterns of thinking and doing which revolve around a specific focus. The following types of narrations were identified: stories about interconnectedness, self-staging, supplying and selling, managing boundaries, and transformation, as well as setting out and breaking away.

scholarly journals KEBIJAKAN TATA RUANG DI KABUPATEN KUTAI KARTANEGARA (STUDI VALORISASI RUANG)

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahayu Subekti ◽  
Lego Karjoko ◽  
Wida Astuti
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Real World ◽  
Spatial Layout ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Local Regulation ◽  
The Real ◽  
East Kalimantan ◽  
The Government

<p align="center"><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p><em>The objective of research was to find out the existing condition of spatial layout the Kutai Kartanegara Regency’s Government used and to find out the policy of Kutai Kartanegara Regency’s Government in spatial layout. In this research, Empirical research on Law (ELr) was used. ELr seeks to understand and explain how law works in the real world. This study was a descriptive developmental one providing a systematical description on the object to be studied, and then a model was developed to address the problems in the field. The research approach used was qualitative approach. The research was taken place in Kutai Kartanegara regency. From the result of research and discussion, two conclusions could be drawn. Firstly, the existing condition of land use in Kutai Kartanegara regency showed the land use for various activities such as: mining, forestry, gardening, and farming. The shift of land function increased over years. Secondly, the government of Kutai Kartanegara regency had developed draft Local regulation of regency about rTrW or Zoning for Kutai Kartanegara regency, but it had not been proposed to the Local Legislative Assembly’s (dprd’s) discussion because there had been no provincial regulation about rTrW or Zoning of East Kalimantan province</em></p><p><strong><em>Key words : </em></strong><em>policy, Special layout, Valorisation</em></p><p align="center"><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p>Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui <em>existing condition tata ruang </em>yang digunakan Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara, untuk mengetahui kebijakan Pemerintah Kabupaten Kutai Negara dalam penataan ruang. Dalam penelitian ini digunakan metode <em>Empirical research on Law (ELr). ELr seeks to understand and explain how law works in the real world. </em>Adapun sifat penelitiannya deskriptif developmental yang memberikan gambaran secara sistematis terhadap obyek yang akan diteliti, selanjutnya disusun model yang dapat dikembangkan untuk mengatasi problema di lapangan. Pendekatan penelitian menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Lokasi penelitian meliputi Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara. Dari Hasil penelitian dan pembahasan dihasilkan dua kesimpulan, yaitu : pertama, Kondisi existing Penggunaan tanah di Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara untuk bermacam – macam kegiatan diantaranya yaitu : . Kegiatan  pertambangan  , Kegiatan Kehutanan , Kegiatan Perkebunan, kegiatan pertanian. Terjadi pengalihan fungsi lahan yang meningkat dari tahun ketahun Kedua, Pemerintah Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara telah membuat Draft Rancangan Peraturan Daerah Kabupaten Tentang RTRW maupun Zonasi Kabupaten Kutai Kertanegara, hanya saja belum bisa diajukan dalam pembahasan dengan DPRD karena Peraturan Daerah Propinsi tentang RTRW maupun zonasi Provinsi Kalimantan Timur belum ada.</p><p><strong>Kata kunci : </strong>Kebijakan, tata ruang, valorisasi</p>

Understanding Law in Many Worlds: Socio- and Empirical Legal Research in the UK and Germany

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Lange
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Real World ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Many Worlds ◽  
The Real ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article discusses the Nuffield inquiry report ‘ Law in the Real World: Improving our Understanding of How Law Works’. It suggests that the report matters not just because of the many policy recommendations it puts forward for the development of empirical legal research. It makes also important reading because it constructs a particular account of socio-legal and in particular empirical legal research in the UK. The article highlights three issues which are central to the picture presented in the report. It suggests that further debate concerning theses issues - especially in a comparative context - can also help to move the socio-legal enterprise forward. These three issues are the relationship between theoretical and empirical research, a tension between openness and closure among the different disciplines involved in socio-legal research, and finally the relationship between institutions and individuals in advancing socio-legal studies.

scholarly journals Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482096989
Author(s):  
Sacha Altay ◽  
Anne-Sophie Hacquin ◽  
Hugo Mercier
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
News Story ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Media Outlet ◽  
Do So

In spite of the attractiveness of fake news stories, most people are reluctant to share them. Why? Four pre-registered experiments ( N = 3,656) suggest that sharing fake news hurt one’s reputation in a way that is difficult to fix, even for politically congruent fake news. The decrease in trust a source (media outlet or individual) suffers when sharing one fake news story against a background of real news is larger than the increase in trust a source enjoys when sharing one real news story against a background of fake news. A comparison with real-world media outlets showed that only sources sharing no fake news at all had similar trust ratings to mainstream media. Finally, we found that the majority of people declare they would have to be paid to share fake news, even when the news is politically congruent, and more so when their reputation is at stake.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Intervention Strategies on MERS-CoV Transmission Dynamics in South Korea, 2015: Simulations on the Network Based on the Real-World Contact Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3530
Author(s):  
Yunhwan Kim ◽  
Hohyung Ryu ◽  
Sunmi Lee
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Real World ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Transmission Dynamics ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
The Real ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
Contact Data

The MERS-CoV spread in South Korea in 2015 was not only the largest outbreak of MERS-CoV in the region other than the Middle East but also a historic epidemic in South Korea. Thus, investigation of the MERS-CoV transmission dynamics, especially by agent-based modeling, would be meaningful for devising intervention strategies for novel infectious diseases. In this study, an agent-based model on MERS-CoV transmission in South Korea in 2015 was built and analyzed. The prominent characteristic of this model was that it built the simulation environment based on the real-world contact tracing network, which can be characterized as being scale-free. In the simulations, we explored the effectiveness of three possible intervention scenarios; mass quarantine, isolation, and isolation combined with acquaintance quarantine. The differences in MERS-CoV transmission dynamics by the number of links of the index case agent were examined. The simulation results indicate that isolation combined with acquaintance quarantine is more effective than others, and they also suggest the key role of super-spreaders in MERS-CoV transmission.

scholarly journals Why do so Few People Share Fake News? It Hurts Their Reputation.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sacha Altay ◽  
Anne-Sophie Hacquin ◽  
Hugo Mercier
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
News Story ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Media Outlet ◽  
Do So

In spite of the attractiveness of fake news stories, most people are reluctant to share them. Why? Four pre-registered experiments (N = 3656) suggest that sharing fake news hurt one’s reputation in a way that is difficult to fix, even for politically congruent fake news. The decrease in trust a source (media outlet or individual) suffers when sharing one fake news story against a background of real news is larger than the increase in trust a source enjoys when sharing one real news story against a background of fake news. A comparison with real-world media outlets showed that only sources sharing no fake news at all had similar trust ratings to mainstream media. Finally, we found that the majority of people declare they would have to be paid to share fake news, even when the news is politically congruent, and more so when their reputation is at stake.

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