A consideration of rumor as “a process of explanation” reviews and integrates a range of findings on bow four conditions-personal anxiety, general uncertainly, credulity, and topical importance-affect and may even predict rumor generation and transmission.
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Ralph L. Rosnow (1988) studied this question.
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