People believe political opponents accept blatant moral wrongs, fueling partisan divides.

Efforts to bridge political divides often focus on navigating complex and divisive issues, but eight studies reveal that we should also focus on a more basic misperception: that political opponents ar…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Puryear, C., Kubin, E., Schein, C., Bigman, Y. E., Ekstrom, P., & Gray, K. (2024). People believe political opponents accept blatant moral wrongs, fueling partisan divides.. PNAS Nexus, 3(7), pgae244. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae244

The Politicization of Climate Science: Media Consumption, Perceptions of Science and Scientists, and Support for Policy.

Differential media treatment of climate change, including conservative media's tendency to reject the anthropogenic climate change scientific consensus, has reinforced polarized perceptions of climate…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Ophir, Y., Walter, D., Jamieson, P. E., & Jamieson, K. H. (2024). The Politicization of Climate Science: Media Consumption, Perceptions of Science and Scientists, and Support for Policy.. J Health Commun, 29(sup1), 18-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2024.2357571

The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment.

We study the effect of Facebook and Instagram access on political beliefs, attitudes, and behavior by randomizing a subset of 19,857 Facebook users and 15,585 Instagram users to deactivate their accou…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Allcott, H., Gentzkow, M., Mason, W., Wilkins, A., Barberá, P., Brown, T., Cisneros, J. C., Crespo-Tenorio, A., Dimmery, D., Freelon, D., González-Bailón, S., Guess, A. M., Kim, Y. M., Lazer, D., Malhotra, N., Moehler, D., Nair-Desai, S., Nait, E. l. . B. a. r. j. . H., Nyhan, B., … Tucker, J. A. (2024). The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 121(21), e2321584121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2321584121

Digital Mass Hysteria during Pandemic? A Study of Twitter Communication Patterns in the US during the Stages of COVID-19 Vaccination.

This study examined the public's sentiments about vaccines by analyzing Twitter data during the CDC's vaccination management planning stage in the United States. Sentiment scores were assigned to each…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Jeong, D., Hanson-DeFusco, J., Kim, D., & Lee, C. K. (2024). Digital Mass Hysteria during Pandemic? A Study of Twitter Communication Patterns in the US during the Stages of COVID-19 Vaccination.. Behav Sci (Basel), 14(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14050389

Differences in stigma reduction related to injection drug use between people expressing conservative, moderate and progressive values following an online intervention.

INTRODUCTION: Contact interventions have shown short-term effectiveness in reducing stigmatising attitudes and behaviours of the public towards marginalised population groups, including people who inj…

Echelles attitudes politiques
Caruana, T., Brener, L., Calabrese, S. K., Cama, E., Treloar, C., & Broady, T. (2024). Differences in stigma reduction related to injection drug use between people expressing conservative, moderate and progressive values following an online intervention.. Drug Alcohol Rev, 43(4), 853-860. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13815

Blocking of counter-partisan accounts drives political assortment on Twitter.

There is strong political assortment of Americans on social media networks. This is typically attributed to preferential tie formation (i.e. homophily) among those with shared partisanship. Here, we d…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Martel, C., Mosleh, M., Yang, Q., Zaman, T., & Rand, D. G. (2024). Blocking of counter-partisan accounts drives political assortment on Twitter.. PNAS Nexus, 3(5), pgae161. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae161

Between information campaign and controversy: a quantitative newspaper content analysis about COVID-19 vaccination in Switzerland and Austria.

AIMS: Because media portrayal reflects and shapes public opinion and health policy, investigating news coverage of public health issues is highly relevant for public health research and practice. Addr…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Zimmermann, B. M., Paul, K. T., Janny, A., & Butt, Z. (2024). Between information campaign and controversy: a quantitative newspaper content analysis about COVID-19 vaccination in Switzerland and Austria.. Scand J Public Health, 52(3), 253-261. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948231195388

A multimodal approach to cross-lingual sentiment analysis with ensemble of transformer and LLM.

Sentiment analysis is an essential task in natural language processing that involves identifying a text's polarity, whether it expresses positive, negative, or neutral sentiments. With the growth of s…

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Miah, M. S. U., Kabir, M. M., Sarwar, T. B., Safran, M., Alfarhood, S., & Mridha, M. F. (2024). A multimodal approach to cross-lingual sentiment analysis with ensemble of transformer and LLM.. Sci Rep, 14(1), 9603. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-60210-7

Political polarization may affect attitudes towards vaccination. An analysis based on the European Social Survey data from 23 countries.

BACKGROUND: Political polarization may result in increased confirmation bias, strengthening of disinformation mechanisms or policy distortion. This raises the question whether it may influence the vac…

Biais de confirmation et polarisation politique
Wróblewski, M., & Meler, A. (2024). Political polarization may affect attitudes towards vaccination. An analysis based on the European Social Survey data from 23 countries.. Eur J Public Health, 34(2), 375-379. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae002

Advocating for Mask-Wearing Across the Aisle: Applying Moral Reframing in Health Communication.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States public polarized along political lines in their willingness to adopt various health-protective measures. To bridge these political divides, we tested mo…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Luttrell, A., & Trentadue, J. T. (2024). Advocating for Mask-Wearing Across the Aisle: Applying Moral Reframing in Health Communication.. Health Commun, 39(2), 270-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2163535

An (Un)Holy Trinity: Differences in Climate Change-Induced Distress Between Believers and Non-believers in God Disappear After Controlling for Left-Right Political Orientation.

We examined differences in reactions to climate change as a function of belief in God. We studied four samples, convenience samples of university students in the USA (n = 627) and in Poland (n = 628),…

Echelles attitudes politiques
Nezlek, J. B., & Cypryańska, M. (2024). An (Un)Holy Trinity: Differences in Climate Change-Induced Distress Between Believers and Non-believers in God Disappear After Controlling for Left-Right Political Orientation.. J Relig Health, 63(2), 1307-1333. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-022-01706-2

How perceived polarization predicts attitude moralization (and vice versa): A four-wave longitudinal study during the 2020 U.S. election.

Within structurally polarized and dynamic contexts, such as the U.S. 2020 presidential elections, the moralization of individuals' attitudes on a specific topic (e.g., climate policy) can dangerously …

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
D'Amore, C., van, Z. o. m. e. r. e. n. . M., & Koudenburg, N. (2024). How perceived polarization predicts attitude moralization (and vice versa): A four-wave longitudinal study during the 2020 U.S. election.. J Pers Soc Psychol, 126(4), 624-642. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000454