ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

What Predicts the Sharing of Online Information?

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Cognitive Psychology

  • Cristian Valencia
    California State University, Sacramento
  • Alex Chan
  • Jianjian Qin
    California State University, Sacramento

Abstract

Undergraduate volunteers decided whether they would “share” a set of “news headlines” online, answered questionnaires, and made true/false veracity judgements of the headlines. Sharing of the true headlines were predicted by lax criterion, however, sharing of the false headlines were predicted by lower sensitivity in the veracity judgments.

Decision Making