Distress and rumor exposure on social media during a campus lockdown

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

Volumn 114, Issue 44, 2017, Pages 11663-11668

  Jones, Nickolas M ^a   Thompson, Rebecca R ^a   Schetter, Christine Dunkel ^b   Silver, Roxane Cohen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis event; Lockdown; Rumor; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUMOR; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; EMERGENCY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MENTAL STRESS; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85032693434     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1708518114     Document Type: Article

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