The Psychology of Rumor¶
Allport, G. W., & Postman, L. (1947). The Psychology of Rumor. Henry Holt and Company.
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Primes¶
Mechanisms¶
- Rumor Control
- … its content: a claim slowed at its vectors buys the whole intervention time, and a trace that unmasks a hundred echoes as one source deflates the "everyone is saying it" pressure — a dynamic Allport and Postman captured in their basic law of rumor, where a story's spread scales with its importance times its ambiguity.
This sourceAllport and Postman's basic law relates rumor circulation to importance multiplied by ambiguity.
- … its content: a claim slowed at its vectors buys the whole intervention time, and a trace that unmasks a hundred echoes as one source deflates the "everyone is saying it" pressure — a dynamic Allport and Postman captured in their basic law of rumor, where a story's spread scales with its importance times its ambiguity.
- Staged Announcement
- Its failure is the information vacuum: pauses that run too long or stages that reveal too little leave a gap that rumor rushes to fill, since a rumor's force grows with how much the topic matters and how ambiguous it is left.
This sourceStates the basic law of rumor: rumor strength varies with the importance of the subject multiplied by its ambiguity.
- Its failure is the information vacuum: pauses that run too long or stages that reveal too little leave a gap that rumor rushes to fill, since a rumor's force grows with how much the topic matters and how ambiguous it is left.
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