Rumor Psychology: Social and Organizational Approaches

By Nicholas DiFonzo, P. Bordia. 2006

471 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/640f90505de7b6f184288e00937b49971be948b3

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. Wei Gao
2. Kam-Fai Wong
3. Jing Ma
4. Brendan Nyhan
5. Sejeong Kwon
6. Jason Reifler
7. Meeyoung Cha
8. Adam J. Berinsky

Citations in the corpus

• Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter (2020, background): “Psychologists have studied the psychology of rumor transmission for decades, highlighting the importance of both accuracy-oriented and goal-oriented motivations (for an overview, see DiFonzo and Bordia 2007).”
• The Effect of Workplace Negative Gossip on Employee Proactive Behavior in China: The Moderating Role of Traditionality (2015, background): “Research indicates that environmental ambiguity is related to the presence of workplace negative gossip (DiFonzo and Bordia 2007).”
• Detect Rumors Using Time Series of Social Context Information on Microblogging Websites (2015, background): “A rumor is commonly defined as a statement whose truth value is unverifiable or deliberately false [3].”
• Prominent Features of Rumor Propagation in Online Social Media (2013, background): “Rumors hence are a powerful, pervasive, and persistent force affecting people and groups [5].”
• Enquiring Minds: Early Detection of Rumors in Social Media from Enquiry Posts (2015, background): “Although rumors have long been a hot subject in multiple disciplines (e.g., [9, 31, 22]), research on identifying rumors from online social media through computational methods has only begun in recent years.”
• Gossip in the workplace and the implications for HR management: a study of gossip and its relationship to employee cynicism (2015, background): “Compared to the previous studies which focused on the function of gossip (Foster, 2004; Michelson et al., 2010) and gossip influence (Cole &Dalton, 2009; DiFonzo & Bordia, 2007), our research has provided a further and more systematic perspective to interpret the gossip–ECN relationship.”
• How Gullible are We? A Review of the Evidence from Psychology and Social Science (2017, background): “Studies show that rumors circulating in the workplace are accurate at least 80% of the time (DiFonzo & Bordia, 2007, p. 146 and references within).”
• The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics (2017, background): “One of the most distinctive feature of rumors is rapid social transmission (Berinsky, 2015; DiFonzo & Bordia, 2006).”
• Rumors and Health Care Reform: Experiments in Political Misinformation (2015, background): “In the realm of rumor, see Difonzo and Bordia (2007).”