Pandemic and the media: How risk information seeking influences media trust and emotions

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Highlights：

• The media-distort-reality belief mediated between information seeking and fear.

• The media-provide-validity-cues belief mediated between information seeking and calmness.

• Information processing methods moderated the mediation pathways.

• Lend insights to information seeking studies and risk communication studies.

摘要

•The media-distort-reality belief mediated between information seeking and fear.•The media-provide-validity-cues belief mediated between information seeking and calmness.•Information processing methods moderated the mediation pathways.•Lend insights to information seeking studies and risk communication studies.

论文关键词：Information seeking,Information processing,Media trust,Emotional response,COVID-19

论文评审过程：Received 4 June 2022, Revised 21 August 2022, Accepted 9 October 2022, Available online 11 October 2022, Version of Record 17 October 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107522