Harvesting Social Signals to Inform Peace Processes Implementation and Monitoring.

Peace processes are complex, protracted, and contentious involving significant bargaining and compromising among various societal and political stakeholders. In civil war terminations, it is pertinent…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Nigam, A., Dambanemuya, H. K., Joshi, M., & Chawla, N. V. (2017). Harvesting Social Signals to Inform Peace Processes Implementation and Monitoring.. Big Data, 5(4), 337-355. https://doi.org/10.1089/big.2017.0055

How social information can improve estimation accuracy in human groups.

In our digital and connected societies, the development of social networks, online shopping, and reputation systems raises the questions of how individuals use social information and how it affects th…

Informations politiques et médiatiques françaises
Jayles, B., Kim, H. R., Escobedo, R., Cezera, S., Blanchet, A., Kameda, T., Sire, C., & Theraulaz, G. (2017). How social information can improve estimation accuracy in human groups.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 114(47), 12620-12625. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1703695114

Examining social facilitation in vigilance: a hit and a miss.

Vigilance is the ability of an observer to maintain attention for extended periods of time; however, performance tends to decline with time on watch, a pattern referred to as the vigilance decrement. …

Modulation de l’attention par contexte social passif
Claypoole, V. L., & Szalma, J. L. (2017). Examining social facilitation in vigilance: a hit and a miss.. Ergonomics, 60(11), 1485-1499. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2017.1308563

Multistate modelling extended by behavioural rules: An application to migration.

We propose to extend demographic multistate models by adding a behavioural element: behavioural rules explain intentions and thus transitions. Our framework is inspired by the Theory of Planned Behavi…

Informations politiques et médiatiques françaises
Klabunde, A., Zinn, S., Willekens, F., & Leuchter, M. (2017). Multistate modelling extended by behavioural rules: An application to migration.. Popul Stud (Camb), 71(sup1), 51-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2017.1350281

Processing the papal encyclical through perceptual filters: Pope Francis, identity-protective cognition, and climate change concern.

Previous research suggests that when individuals encounter new information, they interpret it through perceptual 'filters' of prior beliefs, relevant social identities, and messenger credibility. In s…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Landrum, A. R., Lull, R. B., Akin, H., Hasell, A., & Jamieson, K. H. (2017). Processing the papal encyclical through perceptual filters: Pope Francis, identity-protective cognition, and climate change concern.. Cognition, 166, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.05.015

Polarised press reporting about HIV prevention: Social representations of pre-exposure prophylaxis in the UK press.

Pre-exposure prophylaxis is a novel biomedical HIV prevention option for individuals at high risk of HIV acquisition. Although pre-exposure prophylaxis has yielded encouraging results in various clini…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Jaspal, R., & Nerlich, B. (2017). Polarised press reporting about HIV prevention: Social representations of pre-exposure prophylaxis in the UK press.. Health (London), 21(5), 478-497. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459316649763

Comparing averaging limits for social cues over space and time.

Observers are able to extract summary statistics from groups of faces, such as their mean emotion or identity. This can be done for faces presented simultaneously and also from sequences of faces pres…

Attention partagée et cognition sociale
Florey, J., Dakin, S. C., & Mareschal, I. (2017). Comparing averaging limits for social cues over space and time.. J Vis, 17(9), 17. https://doi.org/10.1167/17.9.17

Automatic attentional orienting to other people's gaze in schizophrenia.

Explicit tests of social cognition have revealed pervasive deficits in schizophrenia. Less is known of automatic social cognition in schizophrenia. We used a spatial orienting task to investigate auto…

Attention partagée et cognition sociale
Langdon, R., Seymour, K., Williams, T., & Ward, P. B. (2017). Automatic attentional orienting to other people's gaze in schizophrenia.. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove), 70(8), 1549-1558. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1192658

Perceived Object Trajectory Is Influenced by Others' Tracking Movements.

In social interactions, it is highly salient to us where other people are looking. The ability to recover this information is critical to typical social development, helping us to coordinate our atten…

Attention partagée et cognition sociale
Palmer, C. J., & Clifford, C. W. G. (2017). Perceived Object Trajectory Is Influenced by Others' Tracking Movements.. Curr Biol, 27(14), 2169-2176.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.019

Evaluating the importance of policy amenable factors in explaining influenza vaccination: a cross-sectional multinational study.

OBJECTIVES: Despite continuous efforts to improve influenza vaccination coverage, uptake among high-risk groups remains suboptimal. We aimed to identify policy amenable factors associated with vaccina…

Informations politiques et médiatiques françaises
Wheelock, A., Miraldo, M., Thomson, A., Vincent, C., & Sevdalis, N. (2017). Evaluating the importance of policy amenable factors in explaining influenza vaccination: a cross-sectional multinational study.. BMJ Open, 7(7), e014668. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014668

Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks.

Political debate concerning moralized issues is increasingly common in online social networks. However, moral psychology has yet to incorporate the study of social networks to investigate processes by…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Brady, W. J., Wills, J. A., Jost, J. T., Tucker, J. A., & Van, B. a. v. e. l. . J. J. (2017). Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 114(28), 7313-7318. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1618923114

Action recognition is viewpoint-dependent in the visual periphery.

Recognizing actions of others across the whole visual field is required for social interactions. In a previous study, we have shown that recognition is very good even when life-size avatars who were f…

Travaux de Schilbach
Fademrecht, L., BĂĽlthoff, I., & de, l. a. . R. o. s. a. . S. (2017). Action recognition is viewpoint-dependent in the visual periphery.. Vision Res, 135, 10-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2017.01.011