National Library of Medicine (NCBI)
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1944 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
... study tests the hypothesis that the essentials of rumor are importance and ambiguity: that is, the amount of rumor in circulation varies with the importance of the ... The study also test the transmission theory of rumor and the classificatory method devised by Robert H. Knapp. The frequencies of the rumors that circulated in U.S.A. in 1942 ... the hypothesis, except that a new class of rumor, named “neo-pipe-dream rumor,” was discovered among the rumors that circulated in Biafra. In each country it ... there is a negative correlation between pipe-dream rumors and wedge-driving rumors.
Tópico(s): Misinformation and Its Impacts
1975 - Taylor & Francis | The Journal of Social Psychology
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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1944 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
This paper analyzes the rumor panics about kidnapping that have been reported by Western observers in Borneo for more than ninety years. This analysis, based on the study of rumor in social psychology, identifies this rumor panic phenomenon as a ‘diving rumor’ and relates it to the study of folklore. A diving rumor is one that repeatedly erupts and disappears over ... of time. It is accounted for by the rumor sharing its dominant motif with a well‐known legend. The analysis of this Bornean kidnapping rumor panic yields a state government construction sacrifice motif. ...
Tópico(s): Narrative Theory and Analysis
1989 - Wiley | Oceania
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1956 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
Allan J. Kimmėl, Robert Kenneth Keefer,
... acceptance of widely disseminated misconceptions about AIDS. A rumor questionnaire listing 10 prevalent misconceptions about AIDS was ... college students. Consistent with predictions derived from current rumor theory (Rosnow, 1980, 1988), anxiety elicited by AIDS rumors was found to be the factor most strongly related to rumor transmission. The subjects who reported having changed their ... AIDS crisis also were likely to transmit AIDS rumors. Regression analysis revealed that, together, personal anxiety elicited ...
Tópico(s): Media Influence and Health
1991 - Wiley | Journal of Applied Social Psychology
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1947 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
Nicholas DiFonzo, Prashant Bordia,
An integrated model relating workplace rumor activity, belief, and accuracy is proposed and tested. Senior VPs of Communications from a sample of Fortune-500 corporations and CEOs of established public relations firms were surveyed regarding rumor episodes that they had experienced. Results confirmed previous ... the role of uncertainty, anxiety, and belief in rumor activity. In addition, a reduced sense of control ... and anxiety mediated the effects of importance on rumor activity. Evidence was found for the roles of ...
Tópico(s): Media Influence and Health
2002 - Elsevier BV | Public Relations Review
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1934 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
Paper Tigers on the Prowl:Rumors, Violence and Agency in the Up-Country of Sri Lanka Daniel Bass In February 2007, international press reports from Pakistan were ... an American-led conspiracy to sterilize Muslims. Similar rumors about vaccinations and sterilization were widespread in Nigeria' ... the international press. However, press accounts of these rumors contain little to no explanation for why local leaders in Pakistan and Nigeria spread these rumors, except for accusations of ignorance or general references ...
Tópico(s): Indian History and Philosophy
2008 - George Washington University | Anthropological Quarterly
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1944 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
Sabine Einwiller, Michael A. Kamins,
... examine the moderating effect of identification with a rumor target on rumor impact and refutation effectiveness. We show that identification ... disidentification, bias the way individuals react to a rumor. That is, as identification with the rumor target increased from disidentification to neutral to identification, belief in an aversive rumor declined. Furthermore, the effectiveness of a refutation was ... Disidentifiers, who engaged in systematic processing, believed the rumor less only when the refutation contained strong arguments. ...
Tópico(s): Media Influence and Health
2008 - Wiley | Journal of Applied Social Psychology
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1943 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
In some situations, rumors come to reflect reality quite well and in others they become fantastic. Why? This article summarizes research on rumor accuracy. It considers rumors as unverified statements in circulation, and rumor discussion as serving group sensemaking and threat-management functions. It also explores a complementary view of rumors as memes: adaptive statements that survive or die out. Conceptualizations of rumor accuracy, methods of investigation, prospects for future social ... accuracy rates are examined. The Percolation Model of rumor accuracy is reviewed: rumor distortions and errors that ...
Tópico(s): Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
2010 - Wiley | Social and Personality Psychology Compass
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1938 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
Allan J. Kimmėl, Anne‐Françoise Audrain‐Pontevia,
This study examines commercial rumors from the perspective of marketing managers. American and French respondents (N = 133) completed a rumor questionnaire intended to assess the prevalence and types of commercial rumors that reach their ear, the severity of rumor effects, the effectiveness of rumor control tactics, and the psychological and situational variables associated with rumor onset and spread. Based on a variation of the critical incidents technique involving recalled commercial rumors, the results conform to rumor theory in terms ...
Tópico(s): Media Influence and Health
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Marketing Communications
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1935 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
Daniel Trpevski, K.S. Tang, Ljupčo Kocarev,
An alternate model for rumor spreading over networks is suggested, in which two rumors (termed rumor 1 and rumor 2) with different probabilities of acceptance may propagate ... symmetric in the sense that when deciding which rumor to adopt, nodes always consider rumor 1 first. The model is a natural generalization ... this model are zero. We find that preferred rumor 1 is dominant in the network when the ... network contains large clustered groups of nodes, expelling rumor 2. However, numerical simulations on synthetic networks show ...
Tópico(s): Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
2010 - American Physical Society | Physical Review E
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1933 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
... paper examines the stability of the concept of rumor in the past century. It is suggested that not only do models of explanation change, but rumors themselves also change - not just in content, but ... are believed or disbelieved. Social scientific interest in rumors begins with the birth of modern psychology in ... century, prompted by governmental concern over subversion through rumor during the Second World War, and is finally ... form of deception and provocation, many of our rumor model assumptions are drawn from that era and ...
Tópico(s): Computational and Text Analysis Methods
2007 - Cambridge University Press | Diogenes
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1939 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
Nicholas DiFonzo, Prashant Bordia,
... and ‘urban legend’ are often used interchangeably with ‘rumor’ by both naïve laypersons and professional scholars. Consider ... naïve laypersons: When asked to evaluate the terms ‘rumor’ and ‘gossip’ along certain dimensions, they rate them almost identically. When asked to ‘think of a rumor’, they frequently report a scandalous tidbit of gossip. Similarly, some of our colleagues - professional scholars of rumor, gossip and/or urban legends - also tend to ... example, participants at a recent interdisciplinary conference on rumor and legend came to no consensus over what ...
Tópico(s): Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
2007 - Cambridge University Press | Diogenes
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0000 - Gale Group | The Making of Modern World
We define the notion of social rumor in a standard game-theoretic framework, and assume each agent in the rumor game with individual rationality. In this framework, individual agent ... particular strategy and lead to emergence of social rumor or anti-rumor. Most importantly, we give simple natural rules of rumor and anti-rumor information transmission, and investigate the efficiency with which social rumors and anti-rumors (agent claims that rumor information is false or doesn’t exist) are ...
Tópico(s): Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
2007 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
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1935 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
Laijun Zhao, Jiajia Wang, Yu‐Cheng Chen, Qin Wang, Jingjing Cheng, Hongxin Cui,
There are significant differences between rumor spreading and epidemic spreading in social networks, especially with consideration of the mutual effect of forgetting and remembering mechanisms. In this paper, a new rumor spreading model, Susceptible-Infected-Hibernator-Removed (SIHR) model, ... model extends the classical Susceptible-Infected-Removed (SIR) rumor spreading model by adding a direct link from ... conducted to investigate the final size of the rumor spreading under various spreading rate, stifling rate, forgetting ...
Tópico(s): Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
2011 - Elsevier BV | Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications