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August 25, 2025Health Communication

Presumed Influence of Health Misinformation’s Threat to Others and Intentions to Correct it on Social Media: The Mediating Role of Emotions and the Moderating Role of Perceived Closeness

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SLShuangqing LiuRWRui WangSGShan Gao

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Overview

Experiment reveals that perceived threat from health misinformation influences correction intentions in social media users, suggesting emotional responses matter.

Key Points

  • Corrective intentions increase when individuals perceive a higher severity of misinformation's threat to others, highlighting the role of emotions in this trigger.
  • The study found anticipated guilt and hope to be key emotions that boost intentions to correct misinformation on social media.
  • Conducted as a 2x2x2x2 between-subjects experiment involving 903 Chinese adults to explore emotional and closeness factors.
  • Findings indicate the importance of perceived closeness in motivating individuals to correct health misinformation more proactively.

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Liu et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af5f19ad7bf08b1eae2374https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2025.2550064
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