Perceived social presence reduces fact-checking

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 23, 2017, Pages 5976-5981

  Jun, Youjung ^a   Meng, Rachel ^a   Johar, Gita Venkataramani ^a  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

Author keywords

Fact checking; Information processing; Social influence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL MEDIA; ADULT; ETHICS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; PERCEPTION; PROCEDURES; RESEARCH;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MALE; RESEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 85020399916     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1700175114     Document Type: Article

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