Testing the cognitive involvement hypothesis on social media: 'News finds me' perceptions, partisanship, and fake news credibility

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Highlights：

• We explicate the News Finds Me Perception (NFMP) as a low-effort cognitive style of attention to news and public affairs.

• High NFMP respondents are more likely to incorrectly assess the credibility of fake news.

• NFMP moderates the effect between social news reliance and fake news credibility.

• Party affiliation is associated with mistaken credibility evaluations only when NFMP is high.

摘要

•We explicate the News Finds Me Perception (NFMP) as a low-effort cognitive style of attention to news and public affairs.•High NFMP respondents are more likely to incorrectly assess the credibility of fake news.•NFMP moderates the effect between social news reliance and fake news credibility.•Party affiliation is associated with mistaken credibility evaluations only when NFMP is high.

论文关键词：Fake news,Social media,News finds me perception,News credibility,Cognitive elaboration,Partisan motivated reasoning,Heuristics

论文评审过程：Received 13 April 2021, Revised 1 September 2021, Accepted 26 November 2021, Available online 27 November 2021, Version of Record 3 December 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.107121