I share, therefore, I know more
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Reader,
Are you the kind of person who often share ‘facts’ without actually looking at their backings as if they’re valid or not? Be honest to yourself.
What is it?
Billions of people across the globe use social media to acquire and share information. A large and growing body of research examines how consuming online content affects what people know.
The research investigates a complementary, yet previously unstudied question:
how might sharing online content affect what people think they know?
Sharing signals expertise, and people frequently internalize their public behavior into their private self-concepts.
We therefore posit that sharing information on social media may cause people to believe they are as knowledgeable as their posts make them appear.
Reader, Let’s grow together! For you, I have a request. It would mean the world if you can share the newsletter with a friend or mate.
“They’d love you more for this than they do already.”
What do I need to know?
The conclusion being suggested here is that when people share knowledge, they feel more knowledgeable—even if they did not produce, and have not read, the knowledge that they share.
As a result, sharing without reading may cause people to believe that they know more than they actually do. [1]
This research covers around 7 studies, all of which are super insightful.
References & Studies: -
https://myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jcpy.1321
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