Intention to trust and share health-related online rumors: Studying the role of risk propensity

Proceedings of 2016 SAI Computing Conference, SAI 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1136-1139

  Chua, Alton Y K ^a   Banerjee, Snehasish ^a   Guan, Ang Han ^a   Xian, Liew Jun ^a   Peng, Peng ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

health rumors; online rumors; risk propensity; share; trust; virality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; HEALTH; INTERNET;

HEALTH INFORMATIONS; HEALTH RELATED INFORMATIONS; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; ONLINE RUMORS; SHARE; THEORY AND PRACTICE; TRUST; VIRALITY;

HEALTH RISKS;

EID: 84988867579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SAI.2016.7556120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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