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Perceived social presence reduces fact-checking
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Significance: The dissemination of unverified content (e.g., “fake” news) is a societal problem with influence that can acquire tremendous reach when propagated through social networks. This article examines how evaluating information in a social context affects fact-checking behavior. Across eight experiments, people fact-checked less often when they evaluated claims in a collective (e.g., group or social media) compared with an individual setting. Inducing momentary vigilance increased the rate of fact-checking. These findings advance our understanding of whether and when people scrutinize information in social environments. In an era of rapid information diffusion, identifying the conditions under which people are less likely to verify the content that they consume is both conceptually important and practically relevant.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jun, Y., Meng, R., & Johar, G. V.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2017-05-22
- Volume
- 114
- Issue
- 23
- Pages
- 5976-5981
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC5468680
- OpenAlex
- W2619683052
- Cited by
- 121
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 39.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
- ACR North American Advances
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Keywords
- perceived social presence, fact-checking, social media, sustained attention, information evaluation, social evaluation
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Research, Social Perception, Internet, Information Dissemination, Social Media
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