The motivation and consequence of fact-checking behavior: An experimental study

• Valeria Bodishtianu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria Bodishtianu, Dongfang Gaozhao, Pengfei Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Dongfang Gaozhao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria Bodishtianu, Dongfang Gaozhao, Pengfei Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * dongfang.gaozhao@gmail.com (DG); pengfei.zhang@utdallas.edu (PZ)

  Affiliation Department of Political Science, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9807-1098

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• Pengfei Zhang

  Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria Bodishtianu, Dongfang Gaozhao, Pengfei Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * dongfang.gaozhao@gmail.com (DG); pengfei.zhang@utdallas.edu (PZ)

  Affiliation School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8237-5700

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