Anatomy Of A Rumor Daniel Goleman

“Users appear to be less capable of distinguishing true from false rumors… in fact, we show that the prevalent

Salmans main purpose is to inform her readers of current legal battles being pursued by Procter and Gamble in discrediting false rumors, which were causing a threat to the company 's sales and reputation. Salmans also debates the issue of rumors and provides actual opinions concerning the rumors from a variety of sources, mainly the prosecutors, defense and church ministers to provide the reader with opposite views. I believe that rumors are usually created due to rivalry, anger, jealousy or hate either amongst individuals or corporations. Rumors most often hinder a person character, beliefs or

In, “One Man’s Rumer I Another Man’s Reality, Gregory Rodriguez, an author of the Los Angeles Times he argues about the power of broadcasting the truth and its effect on the people. As a result, “can false rumors and off-the-wall theories be corrected by broadcasting the truth” (Gregory Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times, September 28, 2009)?

In “Anatomy of A Rumor: It Flies on Fear” Daniel Goleman explains how anxiety plays a role in the creation of a rumor. He explains how many psychologist have found that the spreading of rumors are based on things they are already anxious about. He says that people are more likely to spread a rumor if they fear it's truth. In the article, he uses an example of how a rumor about getting AIDS from swimming in a public pool was spread because of people's fear of it being true. Goleman compares the rumor to a virus, “thriving because of their ability to create the very anxieties that make them spread, and to mutate to fit new situations”.

Rumors tend to give comfort to people during catastrophic events, and somehow helps us better understand the world we live

In “The Crucible”, the girls were obviously hysterical and lying. They thought they were interacting with supernatural forces, but just ended up destroying people’s lives. First, Betty didn’t want to wake up from an unnatural cause, but when she woke up she started saying “ I want my mama”, then when Abigail told her that her mom was gone she started saying that Abigail had drank blood. Abigail didn’t want anyone to know what had happened. Abigail had to say what they were doing she said they had danced and that Tituba had conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters.

Spreading misinformation is common in unethical journalists, in order to receiving larger responses by an audience, than share a less enticing truth. Attacked by the press upon release, Ferrier was called a serial rapist. However, although a criminal he had only been under belief of raping one individual.

The spread of fake news can be detrimental and life altering without checking the validity of sources and facts before passing on such news to others. Pizzagate was a conspiracy theory that went viral during the 2016 Presidential Election campaign, which alleged there was a child-sex ring taking place and the top Democrats had something to do with it (Pizzagate: A Slice of Fake News). Some believe it all started when John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, had his email account hacked. Tons of emails were leaked and made public. His emails were said to contain coded messages that referred to human trafficking and were also connected to the Comet Ping Pong pizza parlor (“Pizzagate: A Slice of Fake News). James Alefantis is the owner of the Comet Ping Pong and also an acquaintance of Podesta. One email did contain Podesta and Alefantis discussing a fundraiser idea for Hillary Clinton, but no talk happened about the alleged child-sex ring. While this ‘news’ was spreading fast, Alefantis and his forty plus employees were receiving deaths threats, negative tweets on Twitter and Facebook, and facing harassing altercations with strangers. The staff observed social media outlets and “counted five #pizzagate Twitter posts a minute” at one point (Kang). Alefantis himself said that, “From this insane, fabricated conspiracy theory, we’ve come under constant assault.” (Kang) The only people that know what is true in the Pizzagate conspiracy theory are the ones who are

A rumor can be the biggest problem in the world to people. The person who starts it tells someone else, then that person changes some of the details and add more facts. This makes the rumor become worse than what it initially was.

People will even spread rumors without even knowing they’re doing it. An article mentioned that, “59 percent of links shared on social media have never actually been clicked.” This means someone will see an interesting link and send it to another person without even looking into whether or not it’s authentic. The rest of the article gives tips on how to spot sham articles, but of course you must actually read them in order to find out if they’re fake. The simplest way to prevent the spread of false news is to not share an article, or anything for that matter, if you haven’t read it. Once again this relates to the way people listened to Abigail without actually looking into her claims to see whether or not their might be obvious

Adrienne LaFrance from the Atlantic Media Company published in June of 2017 how conspiracy theories affect our politics. The author provides a factual conclusion due to many outside resources being used, which aid in trying to expose and defeat the spread of misinformation. By discussing how this false information has infiltrated our politics and the effect it has on our society. Another author published in 2017 through our Gale Databases, how the term “fake news” has come to power in our society. The author argues how by these individuals releasing this false information harms our society as we can not always exactly distinguish the real from the fake. Jeffrey Kluger from Time analyzes “Why so many people believe in conspiracy theories”, by providing various researches. Evaluating how these stories affect people and why they would believe them based on what is currently going on at that time it is released. All three sources challenge the effect that conspiracies theories have on American culture, leading to conclude that the spread of conspiracy theories and fake news are responsible for the perpetuation of misinformation

“How to Fight a Rumor” by Jesse Signal is an essay that gives information about rumors and how to fight them. The essay uses research from rumor researchers and gives different examples of how people deal with rumors. It also views rumors on a psychological level and looks into why people spread them. In the essay, Jesse Signal informs the reader why people spread rumors, how to fight rumors, and gives examples of how people deal with rumors.

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Keystone lights primary objectives are to stave off decline in convenience stores and increase overall brand engagement. With the introduction of “canhole” based on the term “bro-ments” coined via a combination of quantitative and qualitative research, Keystone light hopes to create more shared moments by brand engagement. Since, the game itself requires multiple roles of participation, in a singular or team setting, shared moments convey between potential new customers and non-drinkers. By doing so, this limits what Schiffman & Wisenbit (2014) describe as psychological noise or competing advertisement messages or distractions, since only Keystone Light distributes the game itself. Furthermore, because non-drinkers also engage in “canhole”, this markets them as potential new customers for the game itself, via a Keystone Light purchase.

However, if the news is based just on rumors, what would it be? It would turn out fake news. The recent memorable incident relating to the fake news would be during the 2016 US presidential campaign. In “The Journal of Economic Perspectives,” Enrico Moretti and Gordon Hanson state that fake news had some influence over the election result that Trump became the US president (Moretti and Hanson. 235). They also mention that they discover 41 articles which support Clinton or are against Trump and 115 articles which support Trump and are against Clinton (Moretti and Hanson. 225). These pro-Clinton articles were shared on Facebook 7.6 million times and these pro-Trump articles were shared 30.3 million times (Moretti and Hanson. 225). What makes surprising about this fact is those articles later turned out to be fake news. Before the news about Clinton’s scandals was leaked, there were much less of people who would vote for Trump and much less of fake news criticizing her. Nonetheless, her scandals came out, those fake news based on rumors increased the number. People read them out of their curiosity and shared them in a second.