Supplemental Material for Moral Deliberation Reduces People’s Intentions to Share Headlines They Recognize as “Fake News”
Abstract
Re-Analysis of Survey Data (p.2) General Approach to Data Analysis (p. 3) Supplemental Methods and Results -Study 1a (p.4) -Study 1b (p. 6) -Study 2 (p.8) -Study 3 (p.12) -Study 4 (p.15) Tables S1 to S10 (p.18) SI References (p. 29) Re-Analysis of Survey DataIn the main text, we note that UK social-media users said they would share false political claims 17.5% of the time after they had identified those claims as false.This result comes from a re-analysis of existing survey data (Vaccari et al., 2023), available at https://osf.io/xfked/?view_only=f3df4b38d106460e84eaf86352b1a3e3.The original researchers hired a survey company to recruit UK adults, quota-matched to the general population on several demographics.Shortly before the 2019 UK general election, participants evaluated 10 fake (and 2 real) news headlines relevant to British politics.Participants (N = 2,000) were asked, "What do you think about the accuracy of this news story?" and "If you had the opportunity to share this news story on social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, or on private messaging apps, such as WhatsApp and Snapchat, would you do so?" in that order.For the first question, we coded responses "It is
Fields of Study & Subjects
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Social Media and Politics
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of Experimental Psychology General
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN