Health and Fitness

Hostility has a trivial effect on persuasiveness of rebutting science denialism on social media

P. Schmid and B. Werner

Join researchers Philipp Schmid and Benedikt Werner as they explore how hostility in social media debates affects the power of misinformation and rebuttals in discussions around vaccination and genetically modified food. Surprisingly, their findings reveal that even in the heat of argument, rebuttals can still effectively counter misinformation on critical health behaviors!

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