{"id":2320,"date":"2025-04-14T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2025-04-14T17:47:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:47:42","slug":"do-germans-fall-for-clickbait-keep-reading-to-find-out-stefan-mitikj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/do-germans-fall-for-clickbait-keep-reading-to-find-out-stefan-mitikj\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Germans Fall for Clickbait? Keep Reading To Find out! | Stefan Mitikj"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This study investigates how incentives for accuracy affect the selection of clickbait headlines in digital media consumption, focusing on a sample of 2,089 German citizens. The experiment involved priming participants through political and environmental messaging, with and without notice of a quiz, targeting demographics like age, education level, and digital literacy. Participants exposed to incentives for accuracy did not show a clear preference for political clickbait headlines. However, in the absence ofcentives, there was a sligcht inclination towards engaging with environmental clickbait content. This suggests that preferences for clickbait are topic dependent. More specifically, age played a significant role, with older participants showing increased engagement with non-clickbait content when incentives for accuracy were present. Similarly, less educated individuals tended to prefer non-clickbait options when a quiz was mentioned. The study also explores how digital literacy impacts news engagement, revealing that pre-experiment comfort with online services such as Amazon, Google Workspace, and Zoom influenced the selection of non-clickbait political headlines in quiz-informed scenarios \u2014 higher comfort correlated with a greater likelihood of choosing non-clickbait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1XuBpKf6rDCumCMY3hRBEvE5KL6ALJn-q?usp=sharing\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study investigates how incentives for accuracy affect the selection of clickbait headlines in digital media consumption, focusing on a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}