ABSTRACT

Through a nationally representative survey involving 855 social media users in Singapore, this study proposes and tests a framework to explain why people believe in fake news. Guided by work on dual process models that theorize that individuals engage in either thorough or automatic processing, this study finds that both cognitive ability and political bias predict the extent to which individuals fall for fake news. While both exert direct effects on the extent to which individuals believe in fake news, they also exert indirect effects through how they lead individuals to different news consumption patterns.

中文翻译：

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爱上假新闻：政治偏见和认知能力的作用

摘要

通过一项涉及新加坡 855 名社交媒体用户的全国代表性调查，本研究提出并测试了一个框架来解释人们相信假新闻的原因。本研究以双重过程模型的工作为指导，该模型将个人从事彻底或自动处理的理论化为理论化，该研究发现认知能力和政治偏见都预测了个人对假新闻的堕落程度。虽然两者都对个人相信假新闻的程度产生直接影响，但它们也通过如何引导个人进入不同的新闻消费模式而产生间接影响。