信息疫情：与死亡相关的想法对新闻分享的影响。
Infodemic: the effect of death-related thoughts on news-sharing.
机构信息
Murdoch Singapore, Murdoch University Singapore, Kings Centre #03-01, 390 Havelock Road, Singapore, 169662, Singapore.
School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, 90 Stamford Road, Level 4, Singapore, 178903, Singapore.
出版信息
Cogn Res Princ Implic. 2021 May 20;6(1):39. doi: 10.1186/s41235-021-00306-0.
Research on the sharing of fake news has primarily focused on the manner in which fake news spreads and the literary style of fake news. These studies, however, do not explain how characteristics of fake news could affect people's inclination toward sharing these news articles. Drawing on the Terror Management Theory, we proposed that fake news is more likely to elicit death-related thoughts than real news. Consequently, to manage the existential anxiety that had been produced, people share the news articles to feel connected to close others as a way of resolving the existential anxiety. Across three experimental studies (total N = 416), we found that it was not news type per se (i.e., real versus fake news) that influenced news-sharing intentions; instead, it was the increased accessibility to death-related thoughts elicited from the content of news articles that motivated news-sharing. The findings support the Terror Management framework and contribute to the existing literature by providing an empirical examination of the underlying psychological motive behind fake news-sharing tendencies.
有关虚假新闻共享的研究主要集中在虚假新闻传播的方式和虚假新闻的文体上。然而，这些研究并不能解释虚假新闻的特征如何影响人们分享这些新闻文章的倾向。本研究借鉴了死亡管理理论，提出虚假新闻比真实新闻更能引发与死亡相关的想法。因此，为了应对由此产生的存在性焦虑，人们分享新闻文章，与亲近的人建立联系，以此来缓解这种存在性焦虑。通过三项实验研究（总 N=416），我们发现，影响新闻分享意愿的不是新闻类型本身（即真实新闻与虚假新闻），而是新闻内容引发的与死亡相关的想法的可及性。这些发现支持了死亡管理框架，并通过对虚假新闻分享倾向背后的潜在心理动机的实证检验，为现有文献做出了贡献。
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