“Avoidant Coping Styles” of HIV Predict Credibility Assessment
A study of information evaluation and coping styles of people living with HIV/AIDS reports that “assigning higher credibility to unfounded Internet information was predicted by lower incomes, less education, and avoidant copying styles.” You can read Kalichman, Cherry, Cain, Weinhardt, et al.. (2006)’s study abstract in this PubMed entry.

