The Process and Reasoning: A Psychology of Rumor By Robert H. Knapp.

Salmans main purpose is to inform her readers of current legal battles being pursued by Procter and Gamble in discrediting false rumors, which were causing a threat to the company 's sales and reputation. Salmans also debates the issue of rumors and provides actual opinions concerning the rumors from a variety of sources, mainly the prosecutors, defense and church ministers to provide the reader with opposite views. I believe that rumors are usually created due to rivalry, anger, jealousy or hate either amongst individuals or corporations. Rumors most often hinder a person character, beliefs or

Like when Gazette wrote a story on daily life at school This give inaccurate and incomplete knowledge of the event because it give a much light tension of the event when the tension were extremely high.Carlotta says “Much of it was based on rumors and factual inaccuracies including a teacher who reporter to her class that the nine of us would be leaving at Thanksgiving” (A Mighty Long Way, page 107).The meaning of what she is saying is that they gave an inaccurate picture of what the Little Rock Nine really were experiencing. Also She had the immediate feeling that everything was all worked out, when in reality this was an inaccurate understanding of the event; no agreement had actually been reached (A Mighty Long Way, page 78).When reporters and newspaper articles presented an incomplete or inaccurate of events, it left the public with a picture of events that could have led to false or misleading conclusions.

In the article “How Urban Legends Work” Tom Harris started with an urban legend as an example of how an urban legend works. He used it as a reference throughout the article along with a few more examples. He explained briefly how to distinguish a made up tale from a story with possible truth behind it. The different types of urban legends were defined, cautionary tale and contamination story. These are just two of the more wide spread types to be told over the years. Some urban legends some would think how anyone could ever believe anything about them but Tom Harris explained that most are told by trusted friends whom in our minds would have no reason to lie. But people often make these tales personal or closer than they really are. He explained

The media has been adversely affected by the explosion of information sources. It has become a tedious and cumbersome endeavor to accurately locate information sources that can stand to even the slightest bit of scrutinizing. For those who attempt to report the truth, they continue to find it

Stephen: Truth does not always result in the balmy environment some time you have to create fake weather of rumors.

However, such a stance ignores the obvious reality that once information has been spread, it cannot be retracted, and therefore has the potential to do harm via negatively manipulating and influencing the opinions and attitudes of people. As such, it is therefore helpful to make a distinction between communication that is exchanged stemming from an intention to aid a person’s decision making process, and that which contains unnecessary and possibly false details and is exchanged to belittle someone, harm their reputation or merely for the mundane entertainment of the person partaking in the

Nowadays, is about gossip, who makes more money and who is the real lier. It is hard to determine if the story has huge credibility and reputation or whether the source’s history suggests credibility. If we know that somebody has told lies in the past, then we should be less trusting in the future.

I believe that words are very powerful but if used unwisely or wrongly they can do allot of harm, like destroying the reputation of someone that has spent their lifetime building it. To me the best way to avoid spreading false news is common sense, for example; if the story that I am reading have some information that I think is potentially false and then if I look for the information it doesn’t link me to any other original source, then that is a bad sign for me and probably the information is false or may have been fabricated or taken out of

This all can relate back to stuff that happens in the world today. For example, we can not always trust reading publicity magazines, tabloids or entertainment news on television. Most of the time they just need good stories for people to read, and will make up anything that gets people's attention. Like Napoleon, if it is to their advantage they will use it. Politicians will sometimes make up lies if it means making themselves look good to the public. They will make promises that they will not always stay true to their word and

“The press is overstepping in every direction the obvious bounds of propriety and of decency. Gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and of the vicious, but has become a trade, which is pursued with industry as well as effrontery” (Warren & Brandeis, 1890, cited in Pearson, 2005, p.2).

People are multi-faceted and as such, exhibit unpredictable behaviors at times. People who are mostly trustworthy may even sometimes engage in story-telling, rather than fact-sharing, with or without their own awareness. Friends, for example, may repeat stories of how they out swam riptides when in fact this has been proven to be nearly impossible for any

Journalists writings are similar to gossip and gossip spreading has never had a good reputation. Most journalists or paparazzi will find their information through briefly talking to personal connections of their target, following them around, or even illegally hacking their personal accounts. “According to Matthew Kieran, a Professor of Philosophy and Arts, privacy concerns area of our lives which we practice self-directed control and it is not the right of others to be involve unless we chose to do so”

In Pezzo and Becksteads “A Multilevel Analysis of Rumor Transmission”, the psychologists find that rumor anxiety and situational anxiety have an effect on rumor transmission. If anxiety is associated with a rumor, people are likely to pass it on because they believe the rumor themselves. DiFonzo declares that rumors arise in times when there is a threat or potential threat because questions are unanswered, information is missing, or there is no clear communication (243). According to Pezzo and Beckstead, there are three types of anxiety: situational anxiety, rumor-specific anxiety, and trait anxiety. Situational anxiety is when situations produce more anxiety than others, rumor-specific anxiety is when topics themselves cause more anxiety than others, and trait anxiety is when a few

Word of mouth is in many cases important in shaping people's opinions concerning a particular matter. My cousin Pauline's fear that she is going to suffer as a result of operating the microwave is the perfect example concerning this. The fact that she came by this information through unverified sources did not prevent her from expressing hesitation toward operating the microwave. However, if Pauline was to consult more scholarly sources (Microwaves), she would have realized that while microwaves emit radiation, this form of radiation is not actually the DNA-altering radiation that the masses are accustomed to fearing.

In the nation of Trinidad and Tobago we stress over the “he say she say” in other words we use what we hear and do not research before spreading a rumor, an when we are faced with the facts we are quick to say “well