Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin found that sharing articles on social media, whether we’ve read them or not, can make us think we know more about them than we actually do.
The findings were recently published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology.
People are also reading… The social media ‘virus’According to a 2021 Pew Research Center survey, 72% of American adults, and 84% of adults aged 18-29, said they used social media sites. A majority of Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram users said they visited those apps at least once per day. I’m the expert, it’s meWard and his team set up a series of experiments to figure out whether people shared content on social media without reading it and how that affected their knowledge.
Ward and his team ran follow-up studies to figure out why this increase in perceived knowledge happened. They discovered an interesting result in a study with 217 college students. “[The study] shows a way in which social media can not only impact our behavior, but ultimately what we believe about ourselves, what we believe about our expertise,” Dunning said. “You could change people’s actual behavior based on their self-concepts, because of something they did on the Internet.”
Golan said that before sharing an article on social media, people can ask themselves three key questions. What’s the source of this information? Can I trust it? And is there enough information in the headline for me to pass it on to someone else?
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