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  • Emotions play key role on social media during outbreaks, study suggests

    Mar 20, 2020 4:45 pm by Craig ChamberlainResearch
    advertising professor Sang-Hwa Oh. Photo by Fred Zwicky

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    • advertising professor Sang-Hwa Oh. Photo by Fred Zwicky

    Researchers found that those with higher levels of fear and anger related to the disease (MERS) also were more likely to report that they consumed more information about it through social media.