Society for Consumer Psychology

The Last Word: TCU’s Guy Golan on Why Sharing Online Articles Doesn’t Make People Experts

Researchers at UT Austin published a study in July called "I share, therefore I know? Sharing online content—even without reading it—inflates subjective knowledge." The study, published by the Society for Consumer Psychology, explored how sharing online content affects what people think they know. Turns out, they think they know a lot—which isn't necessarily the case at all.
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