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ArticlePNAS nexus2025

Perceived self and social relevance of content motivates news sharing across cultures and topics.

Danielle Cosme, Hang-Yee Chan, Alyssa H Sinclair, Christian Benitez, Kirsten Lydic, Rebecca E Martin, Anthony Resnick, José Carreras-Tartak, Nicole Cooper, Alexandra M Paul and 4 more

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Article in PNAS nexus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Danielle CosmeAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8956-4053
Hang-Yee ChanDepartment of Marketing, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7179-9436
Alyssa H SinclairAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0447-3959
Christian BenitezDepartment of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6746-2037
Kirsten LydicAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1171-3919
Rebecca E MartinConsumer Financial Protection Bureau, New York, NY 10005, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8735-6509
Anthony ResnickAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6250-339X
José Carreras-TartakAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3631-555X
Nicole CooperAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Alexandra M PaulAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0359-912X
David KoelleCharles River Analytics Inc., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9975-043X
Jennifer McVayCACI International Inc., Reston, VA 20190, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8872-7497
Emily B FalkAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6383-1846
Christin ScholzAmsterdam School of Communication, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6567-7504

Funding

Charting the role of variability in learning across developmentF32HD097873 · NICHD · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI MARTIN, REBECCA E · 2019 to 2022
$232k
NICHD NIH HHS F32 HD097873
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Well-informed individual and collective decision-making is aided by access to high-quality, factual information. What motivates people to share high-quality news, and how can these motives be leveraged to promote news sharing? Based on the theory that self-related and social motives encourage sharing behavior, we designed and tested interventions to increase news sharing. In the interventions, individuals were exposed to actual news stories and were prompted to identify why the content was relevant to themselves (self-relevance) or people they know (social relevance). Across four studies (

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fMRIinterventionnewssharingsocial media

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PMID39925857
PMCPMC11803421

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