On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, and What Can Be Done David J. Leonardi and Ringwraiths

and Ringwraiths

it highlights the differences between healthy and unhealthy emotional responses - for example Anxiety instead of Concern - to enable the reader to quickly picture how they are reacting

ISBN13: 9781163198636

He is the author of the perennial essay "Dear Customer

Author: James Bailey Blackshear

On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, and What Can Be Done David J. Leonardi and RingwraithsMany of us are being misled. Claiming to know dark secrets about public officials, hidden causes of the current economic situation, and nefarious plans and plots, those who spread rumors know precisely what they are doing. And in the era of social media and the Internet, they know a lot about how to manipulate the mechanics of false rumors social cascades, group polarization, and biased assimilation. They also know that the presumed correctives