Psycholinguistic Markers of COVID-19 Conspiracy Tweets and Predictors of Tweet Dissemination.
Psycholinguistic Markers of COVID-19 Conspiracy Tweets and Predictors of Tweet Dissemination.
复制标题
COVID-19 阴谋推文的心理语言学标记和推文传播的预测因子。
DOI：
10.1080/10410236.2021.1929691
复制
发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Harber,Philip
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Rains,StephenA;Leroy,Gondy;Warner,EchoL;Harber,Philip
关于COVID-19的阴谋论在公众中相当普遍，并与拒绝自我保护行为有关。然而，尽管它们意义重大，但我们对用于传播COVID-19阴谋的信息的潜在特征的理解仍然存在差距。我们使用共振结构作为框架，对2020年4月至6月期间发布的超过180万条关于COVID-19的Twitter帖子进行了样本研究。我们的分析集中在区分阴谋论推文与其他COVID-19主题并预测其传播的心理语言学特性。COVID-19阴谋推文是独特的，当他们提供解释并表达负面情绪时，最有可能引起共鸣。这些结果突显了阴谋推文在应对疫情造成的深刻动荡时所发挥的意义制造功能。
The adoption of conspiracy theories about COVID-19 has been fairly widespread among the general public and associated with the rejection of self-protective behaviors. Despite their significance, however, a gap remains in our understanding of the underlying characteristics of messages used to disseminate COVID-19 conspiracies. We used the construct of resonance as a framework to examine a sample of more than 1.8 million posts to Twitter about COVID-19 made between April and June 2020. Our analyses focused on the psycholinguistic properties that distinguish conspiracy theory tweets from other COVID-19 topics and predict their spread. COVID-19 conspiracy tweets were distinct and most likely to resonate when they provided explanations and expressed negative emotions. The results highlight the sensemaking functions served by conspiracy tweets in response to the profound upheaval caused by the pandemic.