News cues: Information scent and cognitive heuristics

By Shyam Sundar, Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, Matthias R. Hastall. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2007

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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How Corporate Social Advocacy Affects Attitude Change Toward Controversial Social Issues (2020, methodology): “This change was based on Sundar and colleagues (e.g., Kim & Sundar, 2014; Sundar et al., 2007), who manipulated the bandwagon heuristic in a similar manner.”
Selective use of news cues: : A multiple-motive perspective on information selection in social media environments (2016, background): “If an article has been evaluated favorably, this is likely to trigger the endorsement or bandwagon heuristic (Chaiken, 1987; Sundar et al., 2007), based on the belief that content or opinions that have been endorsed by others are likely to be valuable 672 Journal of Communication 66 (2016) 669–693…”
A Little Bird Told Me, So I Didn't Believe It: Twitter, Credibility, and Issue Perceptions (2012, background): “However, Sundar, Knobloch-Westerwick, and Hastall (2007) found that the originating source still influenced credibility when individuals were presented with information on a news-aggregating site.”
Credibility Perceptions and Detection Accuracy of Fake News Headlines on Social Media: Effects of Truth-Bias and Endorsement Cues (2020, background): “Research has shown that bandwagon effects appear to be so powerful that they can overshadow other heuristics such as the expertise heuristic (Sundar et al., 2007).”
When Do Audiences Verify? How Perceptions About Message and Source Influence Audience Verification of News Headlines (2020, background): “Source cues are powerful shortcuts for quickly making sense of information without devoting much effort to processing the message (Metzger et al., 2010; Sundar et al., 2007).”
The social media political participation model: A goal systems theory perspective (2020, background): “In line with this, social media research has shown that users primarily select political information based on message matching personal interests (Yang, 2016), credible and reputable sources (Sundar et al., 2007), and network cues (e.g. social recommendations; Yang, 2016).”