ArticleFrontiers in public health2021
Trust in Science, Perceived Media Exaggeration About COVID-19, and Social Distancing Behavior.
Article in Frontiers in public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- No evidence for causal effects of trust in science on intentions for health-related behavior.Communications psychology · 2025Article
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- How the General Public Navigates Health Misinformation on Social Media: Qualitative Study of Identification and Response Approaches.JMIR infodemiology · 2025Article
- Student reflections on emotional engagement reveal science fatigue during the COVID-19 online learning transition.Journal of microbiology & biology education · 2024Article
- Communicating scientific uncertainty in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A message experiment.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2024Article
- Risk Perception, Perceived Government Coping Validity, and Individual Response in the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic in China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Knowledge and practices surrounding outbreaks and COVID-19 among community health workers in rural Rwanda: a cross-sectional mixed-methods study.The Pan African medical journal · 2023Article
- Public Health Information Seeking, Trust, and COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors: Cross-sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Article
- Configurations for positive public behaviors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis.BMC public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
For many individuals, the media function as a primary source of information about preventative measures to combat COVID-19. However, a considerable number of citizens believe that the media coverage about pandemics is exaggerated. Although the perception of media exaggeration may be highly consequential for individual health behaviors, we lack research on the drivers and consequences of this perception. In a two-wave panel study, we examined associations between trust in science, perceptions of media exaggeration about COVID-19, and social distancing behavior during the lockdown in Austria (
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