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A recent study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE explores how personality traits influence the sharing of false political information on social media.
The research reveals that positive schizotypy — a set of traits including paranoia, suspicion, and disrupted thinking patterns — may play a significant role in both accidental and deliberate sharing of misinformation.
Study looked at 2,999 participants who reported sharing political material on social media and having an active, publicly visible Twitter account.
Motivations for sharing political information were assessed using the 18 -item questionnaire from earlier studies.
Researchers then analyzed the participants’ 100 most recent retweets and quote-retweets on Twitter , coding for the presence of false political information.
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