Computer Science ›› 2021, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (6): 306-314.doi: 10.11896/jsjkx.201200194

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Cognitive Mechanisms of Fake News

WU Guang-zhi, GUO Bin, DING Ya-san, CHENG Jia-hui, YU Zhi-wen   

  1. School of Computer Science,Northwestern Polytechnical University,Xi’an 710129,China
  • Received:2020-12-22 Revised:2021-03-10 Online:2021-06-15 Published:2021-06-03
  • About author:WU Guang-zhi,born in 1997,postgra-duate.His main research interests include cognitive mechanisms of fake news and so on.(1137225311@qq.com)
    GUO Bin,born in 1980,Ph.D,professor,Ph.D supervisor,is a member of China Computer Federation.His main research interests include pervasive computing,mobile group intelligence perception and big data intelligence.
  • Supported by:
    National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFB1001803) and National Natural Science Foundation of China(61772428,61725205,61902320,61972319).

Abstract: The advent of the social media era not only accelerates the flow of information,but also provides a breeding ground for the rapid spread of fake news.Fake news may seriously interfere with the perception of the masses` cognition,causing the masses to make wrong decisions,disrupt social order,interfere with political elections,and cause many negative social effects.Existing research lacks a summary of the cognitive mechanism of fake news.In order to explore the psychological and neural basis of reading fake news,this paper has a deeper understanding of the source,spread and social impact of fake news,so as to provide guidance for correcting fake news.This paper defines the cognitive mechanism of fake news,and summarizes two methods for studying the cognitive mechanism of fake news:cognitive experiment method and data analysis method.Cognitive experiment methods are summarized into four parts:internal mental state,external social environment,correcting fake news,and cross-domain cognitive mechanism.The data analysis method is summarized into two parts:the cognitive mechanism of political fake news and the cognitive mechanism of non-political fake news.Finally,three points of thinking are put forward for the future research direction,namely,rumor-defying strategies,deep fake news cognitive mechanism mining,and epidemic-type fake news cognitive mechanism research.

Key words: Cognitive mechanism, Data analysis, EEG signal, Eye tracking, Fake news

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