2023/06/22 by Clara Pretus, Camila Servin-Barthet, Elizabeth Harris +3 · 1 voice · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Social Media and Politics
paper · doi:10.1037/xge0001436
openalex publication_date 2023/06/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/13
= 36). Far-right partisans in Spain and U.S. Republicans who highly identify with Trump were more likely to share misinformation than center-right voters and other Republicans, especially when the misinformation was related to sacred values (e.g., immigration). Sacred values predicted misinformation sharing above and beyond familiarity, attitude strength, and salience of the issue. Moreover, far-right partisans were unresponsive to fact-checking and accuracy nudges. At a neural level, this group showed increased activity in brain regions implicated in mentalizing and norm compliance in response to posts with sacred values. These results suggest that the two components of political devotion-identity fusion and sacred values-play a key role in misinformation sharing, highlighting the identity-affirming dimension of misinformation sharing. We discuss the need for motivational and identity-based interventions to help curb misinformation for high-risk partisan groups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).