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Quality/Credibility of eHealth Information and Trust Issues (654) eHealth Literacy / Digital Literacy (528) Participatory Medicine & E-Patients (873)

Published on in Vol 22, No 6 (2020): June

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/15171, first published .
Spelling Errors and Shouting Capitalization Lead to Additive Penalties to Trustworthiness of Online Health Information: Randomized Experiment With Laypersons

Spelling Errors and Shouting Capitalization Lead to Additive Penalties to Trustworthiness of Online Health Information: Randomized Experiment With Laypersons

Spelling Errors and Shouting Capitalization Lead to Additive Penalties to Trustworthiness of Online Health Information: Randomized Experiment With Laypersons

Authors of this article:

Harry J Witchel1 Author Orcid Image ;   Georgina A Thompson1 Author Orcid Image ;   Christopher I Jones2 Author Orcid Image ;   Carina E I Westling3 Author Orcid Image ;   Juan Romero4 Author Orcid Image ;   Alessia Nicotra4 Author Orcid Image ;   Bruno Maag4 Author Orcid Image ;   Hugo D Critchley1 Author Orcid Image
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Journals

  1. Witchel H, Jones C, Thompson G, Westling C, Romero J, Nicotra A, Maag B, Critchley H. Spelling Errors in Brief Computer-Mediated Texts Implicitly Lead to Linearly Additive Penalties in Trustworthiness. Frontiers in Psychology 2022;13 View
  2. Zhao Y, Zhang L, Zeng C, Chen Y, Lu W, Song N. Factors influencing online health information credibility: a meta-analysis. Aslib Journal of Information Management 2025;77(4):701 View
  3. Claudy C, Bunau E, Wardah W. AN ANALYSIS OF SPELLING ERRORS ON FACEBOOK POSTS. JEELL (Journal of English Education, Linguistics and Literature) 2025;11(1):100 View

Books/Policy Documents

  1. Guy R, Witchel H. Technologies in Biomedical and Life Sciences Education. View
  2. Witchel H, Jones C, Westling C, Nicotra A, Maag B, Critchley H. Science Communication and Trust. View