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100			_aMukhtar, Sonia _929491
245			_aPsychology and politics of COVID-19 misinfodemics: Why and how do people believe in misinfodemics?
260			_aInternational Sociology
300			_a36(1), Jan, 2021: p.111-123
520			_aMisinfodemics related to COVID-19 have negatively impacted people’s lives, with adverse health and psycho-sociopolitical outcomes. As the scientific community seeks to communicate evidence-based information regarding misplaced preventive strategies and misinformed help-seeking behaviors on global multifaceted systems, a secondary risk has emerged: the effects of misinfodemics on the public. Published articles on PubMed, EMBASE, Google Scholar and Elsevier about COVID-related misinfodemics have been considered and reviewed in this article. This review examines the mechanisms, operational structure, prevalence, predictive factors, effects, responses and potential curtailing strategies of misinfodemics of COVID-19. The present article shows that the popular variants of COVID-19 misinfodemics could be the joint product of a psychological predisposition which is either to reject information from experts or perceive the crisis situation as a product of misinfodemics mechanisms and partisan ideological motivations. The psychological foundations and political disposition of misinfodemics have implications for the development of strategies designed to curtail the negative consequences on public health. – Reproduced
650			_aConspiracy theories, COVID-19, Health communication, Misinformation, Mistrust in science _927646
773			_aInternational Sociology
906			_aCOVID-19 (DISEASE)
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