Interest in news literacy inside and outside the academy has grown alongside related
concerns about the quality of news and information available. Attempts to fully define …

The media is increasingly blamed for inflaming political animosity, but it may also bridge
partisan divides—with the right strategies. Past research highlights the outgroup‐experience …

A Bayesian view of data interpretation suggests that a visualization user should update their
existing beliefs about a parameter's value in accordance with the amount of information …

This study uses the case study of journalists to explore the socio-cognitive nature of
interpersonal trust in growingly deceptive ecosystems. Journalists are ideal test subjects to …

People often reject new information, especially when it does not fit their prior beliefs. But do
publics in advanced democracies reject information from public and private media outlets in …

Despite their central role in mediated linguistic communication, headlines have not been a
prime topic of linguistic pragmatics. However, not only may pragmatic notions and …

News source attribution in selective exposure has been examined in many contexts, but
rarely in the context of selecting news from distrusted sources. As such, 800 US adults were …

Scientists are reported to be more trusted than other information sources; yet, on essential
water facts, people sometimes reject what they perceive water scientists to believe in favor of …

The malleability of memory has been a long-standing concern of memory scientists.
Scholars have specifically warned about the dangers of misleading post-event information …

Digitalisierung und Mediatisierung haben die Rahmenbedingungen für Kommunikation und
Medienproduktion und-rezeption verändert. Diese Änderungen wirken sich zunehmend …