It is unknown how lifelong digital media users such as young adult women perceive exercise information found online. A total of 141 women aged 18–30 years and residing in Canada were randomized to read either a factually incorrect or a factually correct blog article. Participants completed Go/No-Go tasks to measure automatically activated believability and evaluations and questionnaires to explicitly measure believability, affective evaluations, and intentions to exercise. Participants did not show evidence of automatically activated believability of the content found in either blog article. However, participants reading the factually correct article reported significantly greater explicit disbelief than those reading the factually incorrect article, though this did not predict intentions. Being factually correct may not be an important component of message believability. Exercise professionals need to remain aware of the content of popular online sources of information in an effort to curb misinformation.

目前尚不清楚年轻成年女性等终身数字媒体用户如何看待网上的锻炼信息。总共有 141 名居住在加拿大的 18-30 岁女性被随机分配阅读事实不正确或事实正确的博客文章。参与者完成通过/不通过任务来衡量自动激活的可信度和评估和问卷，以明确衡量可信度、情感评估和锻炼意图。参与者没有显示任何博客文章中发现的内容的自动激活可信度的证据。然而，阅读事实正确的文章的参与者报告的明显怀疑比阅读事实不正确的文章的参与者要大得多，尽管这并不能预测意图。事实上正确可能不是信息可信度的重要组成部分。运动专业人士需要了解流行的在线信息来源的内容，以遏制错误信息。