Research on Behavior Model of Rumor Maker Based on System Dynamics

Table 1

Rumor-driven factors.

Factor categories	Included factors
Personal factors (PF)	Event attention (EA), personal discernment (PD), negative mentality (NM)
Social factors (SF)	Group polarization (GP), social trust (ST), mass discussion frequency (DF)
Governmental factors (GF)	Governmental regulation (GR), political activity (PA), dissemination efforts (DE)