Fig. 2

Mediation analysis including CRT conflict and no-conflict scores as mediators, age as the independent variable and (a) media truth discernment, (b) fake news items and (c) real news items as the dependent variables. Path c reflects the direct effect, while path c’ reflects the indirect effect. The percentage of mediation indicates the percentage of the total effect for which the indirect and direct effects account (using the “medmod” module in Jamovi 2.3.24 software). *p < .05, ** p < .01, *** p < .001.