The Relationship Between WeChat False Information Exposure and the Behavior and Cognitive Level of Chinese College Students --From the Perspective of Social Cognitive Theory
Abstract
In the current era of increasingly complex information, the rampant spread of false information is constantly endangering people’s physical and mental health. Exploring the impact of exposure to false information on people’s behavior and cognitive level is of positive significance for people to consciously resist and govern online false information. This study is based on social cognitive theory, with Chinese college students as the research object, WeChat as the research platform, and conducted through questionnaire surveys and SPSS software. The data results indicate that WeChat false information exposure has a positive impact on Chinese college students’ trust in information, their approval of using informational deception, and their dissemination behavior of false information, but the differences between genders and grades are not significant. College students should be aware of the harm of false information, strive to overcome the risks of false information caused by overconfidence and insufficient social experience, reduce the harm of false information to themselves, and work together with the school and society to suppress the spread of false information.
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