Could a shift in society’s conception of ‘honesty’ explain the spread of misinformation in the USA?

Could a shift in society’s conception of ‘honesty’ explain the spread of misinformation in the USA?

We identified two components of honesty — ‘belief speaking’ and ‘fact speaking’ — in public-facing communication by US politicians. For Republicans, belief speaking is strongly associated with the sharing of untrustworthy information. Fact speaking is associated with the sharing of more reliable inf...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature human behaviour 2023-12, Vol.7 (12), p.2062-2063
Hauptverfasser: Lasser, Jana, Aroyehun, Segun Taofeek
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Behavioral Sciences
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Communication
Experimental Psychology
False information
Honesty
Humans
Interdisciplinary aspects
Life Sciences
Microeconomics
Misinformation
Neurosciences
Partisanship
Party identification
Personality and Social Psychology
Politicians
Politics
Presidential elections
Research Briefing
Social networks
Society
Speaking
Trends
United States
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Zusammenfassung:We identified two components of honesty — ‘belief speaking’ and ‘fact speaking’ — in public-facing communication by US politicians. For Republicans, belief speaking is strongly associated with the sharing of untrustworthy information. Fact speaking is associated with the sharing of more reliable information, irrespective of party affiliation.
ISSN:2397-3374
2397-3374
DOI:10.1038/s41562-023-01692-9