MediaBehaviorsWellbeing
News Behavior and COVID-19 Prevention
Where do people get information about the pandemic? Do they follow guidelines from health professionals? Knology researchers surveyed the US public to better understand their attitudes towards COVID-19 and infection prevention behaviors
By John Voiklis et al. •
Oct 21, 2020
MediaBehaviors
The Moral Relevance of News
What if research on morality can shed light into why people choose the news they do?
By John Voiklis et al. •
Sep 12, 2019
MediaBehaviors
Numbers in the News: Inflation Explanations
This edition of the Numbers in the News series explores ways to support audience understanding of economic reporting. The results reported here are based on a single experiment in a larger sequence of experiments.
By Bennett Attaway et al. •
Nov 6, 2022
MediaBehaviors
How Many is a "Large" Group? Interpreting Ambiguous Quantitative Statements
This post expands the Numbers in the News series by highlighting how people make sense of quantification without numbers.
By Bennett Attaway et al. •
Jul 27, 2022