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Motivation with misinformation: Conceptualizing lacuna individuals and publics as knowledge-deficient, issue-negative activists

Arunima Krishna
Arunima Krishna
Published on September 11, 2017

This study demonstrates how people who have accepted misinformation about vaccines and have extremely negative attitudes toward them tend to be the loudest voices against vaccines, thus amplifying misinformation and contributing to the spread of vaccine hesitancy.

Publisher: Journal of Public Relations Research (2017)

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