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Engaged listeners: shared neural processing of powerful political speeches ✓

Powerful speeches can captivate audiences, whereas weaker speeches fail to engage their listeners. What is happening in the brains of a captivated audience? Here, we assess audience-wide functional br…

(2015). Engaged listeners: shared neural processing of powerful political speeches. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu168

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Reinforcing Spirals Model: Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Media Content Exposure and the Development and Maintenance of Attitudes.

The Reinforcing Spirals Model (RSM, Citation Withheld) has two primary purposes. First, the RSM provides a general framework for conceptualizing media use as part of a dynamic, endogenous process comb…

Slater, M. D. (2015). Reinforcing Spirals Model: Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Media Content Exposure and the Development and Maintenance of Attitudes.. Media Psychol, 18(3), 370-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2014.897236

01/07/2015 Lire →

Confidence in government and vaccination willingness in the USA.

The most recent internationally widespread disease outbreak occurred during the flu season of 2009 and 2010. On April 2009, the first cases of influenza A (H1N1) (Popularly called, Swine Flu) were con…

Mesch, G. S., & Schwirian, K. P. (2015). Confidence in government and vaccination willingness in the USA.. Health Promot Int, 30(2), 213-21. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dau094

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Response to Bell, K., The breast-cancer-ization of cancer survivorship: Implications for experiences of the disease, Social Science & Medicine (2014).

While there are multiple reasons for the prominence of breast cancer survivorship experience including high incidence, high numbers of cancer survivors and success of breast cancer treatments which ma…

Koczwara, B., & Ward, P. (2015). Response to Bell, K., The breast-cancer-ization of cancer survivorship: Implications for experiences of the disease, Social Science & Medicine (2014).. Soc Sci Med, 128, 342-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.017

01/03/2015 Lire →

Leveraging scientific credibility about Arctic sea ice trends in a polarized political environment.

This work argues that, in a polarized environment, scientists can minimize the likelihood that the audience's biased processing will lead to rejection of their message if they not only eschew advocacy…

Jamieson, K. H., & Hardy, B. W. (2014). Leveraging scientific credibility about Arctic sea ice trends in a polarized political environment.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 111 Suppl 4(Suppl 4), 13598-605. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320868111

16/09/2014 Lire →

Understanding public opinion in debates over biomedical research: looking beyond political partisanship to focus on beliefs about science and society.

As social scientists have investigated the political and social factors influencing public opinion in science-related policy debates, there has been growing interest in the implications of this resear…

Nisbet, M., & Markowitz, E. M. (2014). Understanding public opinion in debates over biomedical research: looking beyond political partisanship to focus on beliefs about science and society.. PLoS One, 9(2), e88473. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088473

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Political extremism is supported by an illusion of understanding.

People often hold extreme political attitudes about complex policies. We hypothesized that people typically know less about such policies than they think they do (the illusion of explanatory depth) an…

Fernbach, P. M., Rogers, T., Fox, C. R., & Sloman, S. A. (2013). Political extremism is supported by an illusion of understanding.. Psychol Sci, 24(6), 939-46. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797612464058

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Hendra in the news: public policy meets public morality in times of zoonotic uncertainty.

Public discourses have influence on policymaking for emerging health issues. Media representations of unfolding events, scientific uncertainty, and real and perceived risks shape public acceptance of …

Degeling, C., & Kerridge, I. (2013). Hendra in the news: public policy meets public morality in times of zoonotic uncertainty.. Soc Sci Med, 82, 156-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.12.024

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Opinion formation and the collective dynamics of risk perception.

The formation of collective opinion is a complex phenomenon that results from the combined effects of mass media exposure and social influence between individuals. The present work introduces a model …

Moussaïd, M. (2013). Opinion formation and the collective dynamics of risk perception.. PLoS One, 8(12), e84592. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084592

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The moral roots of environmental attitudes.

Americans' attitudes about the environment are highly polarized, but it is unclear why this is the case. We conducted five studies to examine this issue. Studies 1a and 1b demonstrated that liberals, …

Feinberg, M., & Willer, R. (2013). The moral roots of environmental attitudes.. Psychol Sci, 24(1), 56-62. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797612449177

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The defining characteristics of Web 2.0 and their potential influence in the online vaccination debate.

The emergence of Web 2.0 has led to more and more Web-based resources demonstrating three defining characteristics: user participation, openness and network effects. This paper discusses these charact…

Witteman, H. O., & Zikmund-Fisher, B. J. (2012). The defining characteristics of Web 2.0 and their potential influence in the online vaccination debate.. Vaccine, 30(25), 3734-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.12.039

28/05/2012 Lire →

The challenge of providing the public with actionable information during a pandemic.

Analysis of media reporting on the H1N1 vaccine during the 2009 pandemic reveals a dissonance between the nature and content of the reporting, the government's messages, and the public's perceptions o…

Gerwin, L. E. (2012). The challenge of providing the public with actionable information during a pandemic.. J Law Med Ethics, 40(3), 630-54. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720X.2012.00695.x

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Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique