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The wisdom of partisan crowds.

Theories in favor of deliberative democracy are based on the premise that social information processing can improve group beliefs. While research on the "wisdom of crowds" has found that information e…

Becker, J., Porter, E., & Centola, D. (2019). The wisdom of partisan crowds.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 116(22), 10717-10722. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817195116

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A discourse network analysis of UK newspaper coverage of the "sugar tax" debate before and after the announcement of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.

BACKGROUND: On 6th April 2018, the UK Government introduced the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) as a mechanism designed to address increasing prevalence of obesity and associated ill health by reduci…

Buckton, C. H., Fergie, G., Leifeld, P., & Hilton, S. (2019). A discourse network analysis of UK newspaper coverage of the "sugar tax" debate before and after the announcement of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 490. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6799-9

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Brain stimulation to left prefrontal cortex modulates attentional orienting to gaze cues.

In social interactions, we rely on non-verbal cues like gaze direction to understand the behaviour of others. How we react to these cues is determined by the degree to which we believe that they origi…

Wiese, E., Abubshait, A., Azarian, B., & Blumberg, E. J. (2019). Brain stimulation to left prefrontal cortex modulates attentional orienting to gaze cues.. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 374(1771), 20180430. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0430

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Social attraction in video-mediated communication: The role of nonverbal affiliative behavior.

The first aim of this study was to analyze video-mediated communication (VMC), in comparison to face-to-face (FTF) communication, and the effect it has on how communicators express nonverbal affiliati…

Numérique : perception de la présence d'autres individus dans un environnement numérique sans interaction

Croes, E. A. J., Antheunis, M. L., Schouten, A. P., & Krahmer, E. J. (2019). Social attraction in video-mediated communication: The role of nonverbal affiliative behavior.. J Soc Pers Relat, 36(4), 1210-1232. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407518757382

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Mapping discourse coalitions in the minimum unit pricing for alcohol debate: a discourse network analysis of UK newspaper coverage.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol was introduced in Scotland on 1 May 2018, and is now on the policy agenda in other devolved administrations and at Westminster. Previous res…

Fergie, G., Leifeld, P., Hawkins, B., & Hilton, S. (2019). Mapping discourse coalitions in the minimum unit pricing for alcohol debate: a discourse network analysis of UK newspaper coverage.. Addiction, 114(4), 741-753. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14514

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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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Contagious yawning in virtual reality is affected by actual, but not simulated, social presence.

Contagious yawning occurs in humans and a few other highly social animals following the detection of yawns in others, yet the factors influencing the propagation of this response remain largely unknow…

Numérique : perception de la présence d'autres individus dans un environnement numérique sans interaction

Gallup, A. C., Vasilyev, D., Anderson, N., & Kingstone, A. (2019). Contagious yawning in virtual reality is affected by actual, but not simulated, social presence.. Sci Rep, 9(1), 294. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36570-2

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Joint attention is intact even when visuospatial working memory is occupied.

The gaze of another modulates and shifts an observer's spatial attention toward this gaze direction. This phenomenon is termed joint attention. Although previous studies found joint attention was indu…

Yokoyama, T., Kato, R., Inoue, K., & Takeda, Y. (2019). Joint attention is intact even when visuospatial working memory is occupied.. Vision Res, 154, 54-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2018.10.011

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A Digital Nudge to Counter Confirmation Bias.

Fake news is increasingly an issue on social media platforms. In this work, rather than detect misinformation, we propose the use of nudges to help steer internet users into fact checking the news the…

Biais de confirmation et polarisation politique

Thornhill, C., Meeus, Q., Peperkamp, J., & Berendt, B. (2019). A Digital Nudge to Counter Confirmation Bias.. Front Big Data, 2, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2019.00011

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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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