ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025
The effects of social media criticism against public health institutions on trust, emotions, and social media engagement.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Why do people trust (or mistrust) health organizations? A systematic review.International journal for equity in health · 2026Pooled it
- Beyond Screen Time and Emotion Regulation: Social Trust as a Structural Pathway to Perceived Well-Being-A Competing-Models Analysis Among Chinese Youth.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A global call to action on the digital determinants of health.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Review
- Reply to Loh: Evaluating anger as a mediator of criticism's effect on social media engagement using the interventional effects approach.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Analyzing multiple mediators in multiple single-mediator models leads to wrong conclusions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- The effects of social media criticism against public health institutions on trust, emotions, and social media engagement.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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Abstract
In recent years, trust in US public health and science institutions has faced unprecedented declines, particularly among Republicans/conservatives. To what extent might institutional criticism on social media be responsible for such politically polarized declines in institutional trust? Two online survey experiments (total
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