1947, all ports &; The postman gave a formula to determine rumors: rumors = importance × fuzziness; In this formula, they point out that the occurrence of rumors and the importance of events are directly proportional to fuzziness. The more important and vague the event, the greater the role of rumors. When the importance and ambiguity tend to zero, rumors will not happen. If you want to stop the spread of rumors, you should disclose the truth of the incident in time. As the saying goes, "rumors stop at the truth."
In the modern environment, rumors spread faster and harder by using flexible and disorderly network communication. Some rumors often change in communication, which is caused by the memory errors of the recipients and communicators. More importantly, everyone has intentionally or unintentionally added their own subjective color in the process of communication. ?
Rumor is the spread of inaccurate information about people, events and social events. The role of rumors is always negative. It will harm individuals, groups, society and the country. Many times, gossip often becomes the means and tools of political struggle for dishonest people.
Rumors can make originally stable interpersonal relationships suspicious, bitter and nervous; It makes the originally stable social order very chaotic and makes people panic. It can paralyze people's ideological vigilance, weaken people's defensive psychology, and make people unconsciously become prisoners of rumors. It can destroy people's unity, weaken mutual trust, create internal friction and disintegrate each other's combat effectiveness. Because it has the function of confusing public opinion, it often has a very bad influence.
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Types of rumors:
One is revenge and attack. For some reason, these people have been punished by society in the past, and their own interests have been directly or indirectly violated, so they have a strong dissatisfaction with society and always want to wait for revenge.
Second, I am afraid that the world will not be chaotic. Such people have no specific political or economic purpose, but just out of the psychology and paranoid personality characteristics of ordinary citizens, they join in the fun everywhere, inquire about gossip everywhere, stir up trouble everywhere, make irresponsible remarks all day, and even fabricate sensational news to show their "talent" and disturb people's hearts.
The third is mercenary. These are some merchants and profiteers with ulterior motives. They use social chaos to create rumors with ulterior motives for the benefit of their own goods, forming people's panic and panic buying psychology, thus driving up the prices of their own goods, making huge profits and windfall. Some unscrupulous traders concocted rumors of "rice shortage" and "salt shortage", and unscrupulous traders took the opportunity to drive up prices and desperately snapped up drugs such as Radix Isatidis and Roxithromycin, forming an irrational buying trend.
The fourth is bluffing. These people create rumors not because of their reactionary intentions, but because they are a little "talented" and want to "prove" their "talent" and "ability" by making up some sensational news. For example, some people like to fabricate and spread sensational information they fabricated on the Internet, and they also have fun on public Internet websites by e-mail and pasting.
The fifth is the prank type. This kind of person has no sense of social responsibility or sympathy. On the contrary, he takes pleasure in creating tension, anxiety, trouble and pain for society or others. The more people are afraid of the rumors he makes, the happier he is.
The sixth type is "unconscious rumor mongers". Such people lack brains, scientific and rational spirit, can't think independently, have extremely low psychological endurance, fragile personality and strong self-defense ability. They take everything for granted, associate it casually, and wish to tell others the result of their "imagination" in good faith, thus inadvertently "creating" a rumor.