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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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Seeing minds in others: Mind perception modulates low-level social-cognitive performance and relates to ventromedial prefrontal structures.

In social interactions, we rely on nonverbal cues like gaze direction to understand the behavior of others. How we react to these cues is affected by whether they are believed to originate from an ent…

Wiese, E., Buzzell, G. A., Abubshait, A., & Beatty, P. J. (2018). Seeing minds in others: Mind perception modulates low-level social-cognitive performance and relates to ventromedial prefrontal structures.. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, 18(5), 837-856. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-018-0608-2

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Visual attention and action: How cueing, direct mapping, and social interactions drive orienting.

Despite considerable interest in both action perception and social attention over the last 2 decades, there has been surprisingly little investigation concerning how the manual actions of other humans…

Atkinson, M. A., Simpson, A. A., & Cole, G. G. (2018). Visual attention and action: How cueing, direct mapping, and social interactions drive orienting.. Psychon Bull Rev, 25(5), 1585-1605. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1354-0

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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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Infant perception of sex differences in biological motion displays.

We examined mechanisms underlying infants' ability to categorize human biological motion stimuli from sex-typed walk motions, focusing on how visual attention to dynamic information in point-light dis…

Tsang, T., Ogren, M., Peng, Y., Nguyen, B., Johnson, K. L., & Johnson, S. P. (2018). Infant perception of sex differences in biological motion displays.. J Exp Child Psychol, 173, 338-350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.04.006

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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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Independent Coactors May Improve Performance and Lower Workload: Viewing Vigilance Under Social Facilitation.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of an independent coactor on vigilance task performance. It was hypothesized that the presence of an independent coactor would im…

Claypoole, V. L., & Szalma, J. L. (2018). Independent Coactors May Improve Performance and Lower Workload: Viewing Vigilance Under Social Facilitation.. Hum Factors, 60(6), 822-832. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720818769268

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Perceptions of newsworthiness are contaminated by a political usefulness bias. 📖 En lecture

Are people's perceptions of the newsworthiness of events biased by a tendency to rate as more important any news story that seems likely to lead others to share their own political attitudes? To asses…

Biais de confirmation et polarisation politique

Pashler, H., & Heriot, G. (2018). Perceptions of newsworthiness are contaminated by a political usefulness bias.. R Soc Open Sci, 5(8), 172239. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172239

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Flesh and bone digital sociality: On how humans may go virtual.

Research on virtual reality (VR) has gained momentum over the last fifteen years or so. In their review, Pan and Hamilton (2018, British Journal of Psychology) show how the different types of VR devic…

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

Monti, A., & Aglioti, S. M. (2018). Flesh and bone digital sociality: On how humans may go virtual.. Br J Psychol, 109(3), 418-420. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12300

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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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