Why People Who Know Less Think They Know about COVID-19: Evidence from US and Singapore.

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      UNITED States; SINGAPORE
    • Abstract:
      This study explores the effects of traditional media and social media on different types of knowledge about COVID-19. We also explore how surveillance motivation moderates the relationship between media use and different types of knowledge. Based on cross-national data from Singapore and the United States, we find that news seeking via social media is negatively related to factual knowledge and positively related to subjective knowledge and knowledge miscalibration. News seeking via traditional media is not significantly related to factual knowledge. Although the main effects are highly consistent across the two countries, we find some different interaction patterns across these countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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