Fig. 5: Mediation effect of confidence, moderated by news content imprecision and propensity to polarize, predict the demand for extra information.

News content imprecision and news content propensity to polarize, conditional on the veracity judgment, have indirect effects on reception choices (i.e., the decision to acquire extra information about the news) via the confidence in the veracity evaluation. Indirect effects are represented with dotted lines; direct effects are represented with solid lines. The coefficients are standardized. Notes: *p < 0.05. **p < 0.01. ***p < 0.001.