bronstein_2019 {discovr}R Documentation

Bronstein et al. (2019) data

Description

A dataset from Field, A. P. (2026). Discovering statistics using R and RStudio (2nd ed.). London: Sage.

Usage

bronstein_2019

Format

A tibble with 947 rows and 5 variables

Details

The rapid increase in 'fake news' and misinformation is a worrying trend in recent years. Perhaps more worrying is how widely some of this news is taken as fact. Researchers have started to look at what characteristics predict susceptibility to fake news. Bronstein et al. (2019) hypothesised that delusion-prone individuals may be more likely to believe fake news because of their tendency to engage in less analytic and open-minded thinking. They conducted two online studies that got merged into a single analysis to test this hypothesis. This object is a subset of variables from their data (I have changed the variable names to match the constructs measured rather than the scales used to measure them). The full dataset is available at doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.09.005.

Source

www.discovr.rocks/csv/bronstein_2019.csv

References


[Package discovr version 0.2.2 Index]