This review aims (a) to investigate the motivations to share fake news on Social Media
Platforms (SMPs) according to the Self-Determination Theory (SDT);(b) to identify the …

While emotional content predicts social media post sharing, competing theories of emotion
imply different predictions about how emotional content will influence the virality of social …

With growing commercial, regulatory and scholarly interest in use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
to profile and interact with human emotion (“emotional AI”), attention is turning to its capacity …

We conduct a survey on a large representative sample of Slovak population to examine the
role of analytic thinking, scientific reasoning, conspiracy mentality, and conspiracy beliefs in …

Social media platforms, which are ripe with emotionally charged pieces of information, are
vulnerable to the dissemination of vast amounts of misinformation. Little is known about the …

This study investigates the factors associated with sharing fake news about COVID-19 on
Facebook. The authors developed a model comprising novel constructs to analyze the …

In contemporary cognitive science, the interplay between emotions and information
processing is crucial, especially in the context of media and misinformation. Previous …

As our society increasingly relies on digital platforms for information, the spread of fake news
has become a pressing concern. This study investigates the ability of Greek and Portuguese …

We survey a large representative sample of the Slovak population to examine the role of
analytic thinking, scientific reasoning, conspiracy mentality, and conspiracy beliefs in trust in …

Over the last 70 years, we, humans, have created an economic market where attention is
being captured and turned into money thanks to advertising. During the last two decades …