Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, 31 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637718, Singapore.
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, 31 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637718, Singapore.
Int J Med Inform. 2017 Dec;108:36-41. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2017.08.010. Epub 2017 Sep 21.
This paper investigates the role of epistemic belief in affecting Internet users' decision to share online health rumors. To delve deeper, it examines how the characteristics of rumors-true or false, textual or pictorial, dread or wish-shape the decision-making among epistemologically naïve and robust users separately.
An experiment was conducted. Responses were obtained from 110 participants, who were exposed to eight rumors. This yielded 880 cases (110 participants×8 rumors) for statistical analyses.
Epistemologically naive participants were more likely to share online health rumors than epistemologically robust individuals. Epistemologically robust participants were more likely to share textual rumors than pictorial ones. However, there were no differences between true and false rumors or between dread and wish rumors for either epistemologically naive or robust participants.
This paper contributes to the understanding of users' health information sharing behavior. It encourages users to cultivate robust epistemic belief in order to improve their online health information processing skills.
本文旨在探讨认知信念在影响互联网用户分享在线健康谣言方面的作用。更深入地说，它研究了谣言的特征——真实或虚假、文字或图片、恐惧或愿望——如何分别影响认知天真和认知稳健的用户的决策。
进行了一项实验。从 110 名参与者那里获得了回应，他们接触了 8 个谣言。这为统计分析提供了 880 个案例（110 名参与者×8 个谣言）。
认知天真的参与者比认知稳健的参与者更有可能分享在线健康谣言。认知稳健的参与者更有可能分享文字谣言而不是图片谣言。然而，对于认知天真或稳健的参与者来说，真假谣言或恐惧与愿望谣言之间没有差异。
本文有助于理解用户的健康信息共享行为。它鼓励用户培养稳健的认知信念，以提高他们的在线健康信息处理技能。
