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Vaccine hesitancy and Web 2.0: Exploring how attitudes and beliefs about influenza vaccination are exchanged in online threaded user comments.

The growth of Web 2.0 has been particularly impactful in shaping information assessment in decision-making with regards to vaccination. The aim of the present study was to explore how attitudes and be…

Meyer, S. B., Violette, R., Aggarwal, R., Simeoni, M., MacDougall, H., & Waite, N. (2019). Vaccine hesitancy and Web 2.0: Exploring how attitudes and beliefs about influenza vaccination are exchanged in online threaded user comments.. Vaccine, 37(13), 1769-1774. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.02.028

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A Robust User Sentiment Biterm Topic Mixture Model Based on User Aggregation Strategy to Avoid Data Sparsity for Short Text.

Sentiment analysis is a process of computationally finding the opinions that are expressed in a short text or a feedback by a writer towards a particular topic, product, service. The short piece of re…

K, N., & R, J. (2019). A Robust User Sentiment Biterm Topic Mixture Model Based on User Aggregation Strategy to Avoid Data Sparsity for Short Text.. J Med Syst, 43(4), 93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-019-1225-5

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Political ideology shapes the amplification of the accomplishments of disadvantaged vs. advantaged group members.

Recent years have witnessed an increased public outcry in certain quarters about a perceived lack of attention given to successful members of disadvantaged groups relative to equally meritorious membe…

Kteily, N. S., Rocklage, M. D., McClanahan, K., & Ho, A. K. (2019). Political ideology shapes the amplification of the accomplishments of disadvantaged vs. advantaged group members.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 116(5), 1559-1568. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818545116

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The triple-filter bubble: Using agent-based modelling to test a meta-theoretical framework for the emergence of filter bubbles and echo chambers.

Filter bubbles and echo chambers have both been linked recently by commentators to rapid societal changes such as Brexit and the polarization of the US American society in the course of Donald Trump's…

Geschke, D., Lorenz, J., & Holtz, P. (2019). The triple-filter bubble: Using agent-based modelling to test a meta-theoretical framework for the emergence of filter bubbles and echo chambers.. Br J Soc Psychol, 58(1), 129-149. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12286

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Climate change, cultural cognition, and media effects: Worldviews drive news selectivity, biased processing, and polarized attitudes.

According to cultural cognition theory, individuals hold opinions about politically contested issues like climate change that are consistent with their "cultural way of life," conforming their opinion…

Newman, T. P., Nisbet, E. C., & Nisbet, M. C. (2018). Climate change, cultural cognition, and media effects: Worldviews drive news selectivity, biased processing, and polarized attitudes.. Public Underst Sci, 27(8), 985-1002. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662518801170

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Adolescents' Reasons to Unfriend on Facebook.

This study is the first to examine adolescents' reasons for unfriending people on Facebook. By means of open-end questions, 419 participants described the primary online (i.e., arising from friends' b…

Verswijvel, K., Heirman, W., Hardies, K., & Walrave, M. (2018). Adolescents' Reasons to Unfriend on Facebook.. Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw, 21(10), 603-610. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2018.0243

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Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization.

There is mounting concern that social media sites contribute to political polarization by creating "echo chambers" that insulate people from opposing views about current events. We surveyed a large sa…

Bail, C. A., Argyle, L. P., Brown, T. W., Bumpus, J. P., Chen, H., Hunzaker, M. B. F., Lee, J., Mann, M., Merhout, F., & Volfovsky, A. (2018). Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 115(37), 9216-9221. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1804840115

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False beliefs and confabulation can lead to lasting changes in political attitudes.

In times of increasing polarization and political acrimony, fueled by distrust of government and media disinformation, it is ever more important to understand the cognitive mechanisms behind political…

Strandberg, T., Sivén, D., Hall, L., Johansson, P., & Pärnamets, P. (2018). False beliefs and confabulation can lead to lasting changes in political attitudes.. J Exp Psychol Gen, 147(9), 1382-1399. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000489

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Healthcare reforms, inertia polarization and group influence.

Healthcare systems performance is the focus of intense policy and media attention in most countries. Quebec (Canada) is no exception, where successive governments have struggled for decades with appar…

Contandriopoulos, D., Brousselle, A., Larouche, C., Breton, M., Rivard, M., Beaulieu, M. D., Haggerty, J., Champagne, G., & Perroux, M. (2018). Healthcare reforms, inertia polarization and group influence.. Health Policy, 122(9), 1018-1027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.07.007

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Polarized Ukraine 2014: opinion and territorial split demonstrated with the bounded confidence XY model, parametrized by Twitter data.

Multiple countries have recently experienced extreme political polarization, which, in some cases, led to escalation of hate crime, violence and political instability. Besides the much discussed presi…

Romenskyy, M., Spaiser, V., Ihle, T., & Lobaskin, V. (2018). Polarized Ukraine 2014: opinion and territorial split demonstrated with the bounded confidence XY model, parametrized by Twitter data.. R Soc Open Sci, 5(8), 171935. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171935

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Polarization of the vaccination debate on Facebook.

BACKGROUND: Vaccine hesitancy has been recognized as a major global health threat. Having access to any type of information in social media has been suggested as a potential influence on the growth of…

Schmidt, A. L., Zollo, F., Scala, A., Betsch, C., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2018). Polarization of the vaccination debate on Facebook.. Vaccine, 36(25), 3606-3612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.05.040

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The effect of partisanship and political advertising on close family ties.

Research on growing American political polarization and antipathy primarily studies public institutions and political processes, ignoring private effects, including strained family ties. Using anonymi…

Chen, M. K., & Rohla, R. (2018). The effect of partisanship and political advertising on close family ties.. Science, 360(6392), 1020-1024. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaq1433

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