Who Hears What from Whom and with What Effect: A Study of Rumor
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This experiment explored whether subjects, high and low in anxiety, would transmit a rumor that was believable or not believable when the rumor was told to them by a peer as opposed to an authority figure. We found that the rumor was more frequently repeated when the story was believable than unbelievable. 7he highly anxious subjects repeated the rumor more often than did the less anxious subjects only when the source was a peer.
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Rumours can be classified by various factors, including eventual veracity and degree of credibility.
“Many different factors are available for classifying rumours by type, including its eventual veracity value (true, false, or unresolved) (Zubiaga et al. 2016c) or its degree of credibility (e.g., high or low) (Jaeger et al. 1980).”
From Detection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media (2019) · cites this paper as Jaeger et al. 1980
Jaeger et al. (1980) found that rumours were shared more often when they were highly believable.
“Jaeger et al. (1980) found that rumours were passed on more frequently when the believability level was high.”
From Detection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media (2019) · cites this paper as Jaeger et al. 1980
Jaeger et al. (1980) and Scanlon (1977) found that recipients' perceived importance affects whether a rumour spreads, with less important rumours spreading more.
“Jaeger et al. (1980) and Scanlon (1977) found the importance of a rumour as perceived by recipients to be a factor that determines whether or not it is spread, the least important rumours being spread more.”
From Detection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media (2019) · cites this paper as Jaeger et al. 1980
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A personality scale of manifest anxiety
Taylor, J. A. (1953) · The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/h0056264 · Cited by 3,131 · see citing works
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Detection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media
Zubiaga, A., Aker, A., Bontcheva, K., Liakata, M., & Procter, R. (2019) · ACM Computing Surveys · doi:10.1145/3161603 · Cited by 608 · see citing works
- Authors
- Jaeger, M. E., Anthony, S., & Rosnow, R. L.
- Affiliations
- London School of Economics and Political Science (GB)
- Gallaudet University (US)
- Temple University (US)
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1980-09
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 473-478
- ISSN
- 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7433
- OpenAlex
- W2109448170
- Cited by
- 92
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 2.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- rumor propagation, anxiety, source credibility, social influence
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