Rebuilding vaccine confidence in Latin America and the Caribbean: strategies for the post-pandemic era.

INTRODUCTION: Vaccine hesitancy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has a complex nature. It is shaped by socio-political, cultural, economic factors, and an influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on…

Cognition politique et traitement des médias Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Debbag, R., Gallo, J., Ãvila-Agüero, M. L., Beltran, C., Brea-Del, C. a. s. t. i. l. l. o. . J., Puentes, A., & Enrique, S. (2025). Rebuilding vaccine confidence in Latin America and the Caribbean: strategies for the post-pandemic era.. Expert Rev Vaccines, 24(1), 615-623. https://doi.org/10.1080/14760584.2025.2527327

Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization.

Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants' feeds in real time and used thi…

Cognition politique et traitement des médias Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Piccardi, T., Saveski, M., Jia, C., Hancock, J., Tsai, J. L., & Bernstein, M. S. (2025). Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization.. Science, 390(6776), eadu5584. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adu5584

Selective Empathy Theory: the Bias of Affective Empathy and the Role of Social Frames.

This paper introduces the Selective Empathy Theory, a new theoretical framework that challenges the idealized, universalist understanding of empathy in psychology and social discourse. Contrary to the…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Park, I. K. (2025). Selective Empathy Theory: the Bias of Affective Empathy and the Role of Social Frames.. Integr Psychol Behav Sci, 59(4), 81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-025-09957-w

Probabilistic inference of social presence across brain scales reveals enhanced synaptic efficacy.

The presence of conspecifics is a fundamental and arguably invariant prerequisite of social cognition across numerous animal species. While the influence of social presence on behavior has been among …

Modulation de l’attention par contexte social passif
Esmaeili, A., Demolliens, M., Viersen, M., Ziaeemehr, A., Isbaine, F., Huguet, P., Zaal, F., Jirsa, V., Boussaoud, D., & Hashemi, M. (2025). Probabilistic inference of social presence across brain scales reveals enhanced synaptic efficacy.. Commun Biol, 8(1), 1608. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08971-3

Drivers of health polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.

Health polarization has emerged as a critical factor shaping public health attitudes and behaviors, particularly during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This study provides a systematic review of…

Cognition politique et traitement des médias Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Camacho-García, M., Serrano-Macías, M., Ortega-Martin, E., & Alvarez-Galvez, J. (2025). Drivers of health polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.. Sci Adv, 11(46), eady5064. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ady5064

"Just be honest with us": A qualitative analysis of Canadians' public trust during the COVID-19 pandemic.

OBJECTIVES: This qualitative study examines how trust has changed during and after the pandemic among our study participants. It reveals how they made meaning of trust in federal and provincial govern…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Muhajarine, N., Neudorf, C., Braun, F., Mehdiyeva, K., Baudelaire, K., Omot, A., Bedard, B., Entwistle, K., Bandara, T., Sadique, S., Abraham, N., Huyser, K., Lavoie, K. L., Dubé, Ã. ˆ., & Betker, C. (2025). "Just be honest with us": A qualitative analysis of Canadians' public trust during the COVID-19 pandemic.. Can J Public Health. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-025-01121-6

Examining the Meaning of "Violence" Through Machine Learning Techniques.

This paper examines the meaning of violence in contemporary Western societies. Scholars have argued that in contemporary Western societies, the concept is expanding toward a broader understanding of v…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
van, B. r. e. e. n. . J., Rijcken, E., Kantorowicz, J., & Liem, M. (2025). Examining the Meaning of "Violence" Through Machine Learning Techniques.. J Interpers Violence, 40(21-22), 5072-5094. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605241301793

The Fake News and Polarization Landscape: Scoping Review of Fake News Research and its Link with Attitude Polarization. 📖 En lecture

This scoping review investigates the complex landscape of fake news research, focusing on its link with attitudinal polarization and identifying key themes in the literature. Our objectives included m…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Lana-Blond, R., & García-Saiz, M. (2025). The Fake News and Polarization Landscape: Scoping Review of Fake News Research and its Link with Attitude Polarization.. Span J Psychol, 28, e19. https://doi.org/10.1017/SJP.2025.10010

Exploring Remote Collaborative Tasks: The Impact of Avatar Representation on Dyadic Haptic Interactions in Shared Virtual Environments.

This study is the first to explore the interplay between haptic interaction and avatar representation in Shared Virtual Environments (SVEs). Specifically, how these factors shape users' sense of socia…

Numérique : perception de la présence d'autres individus dans un environnement numérique sans interaction
Sasaki, G., & Igarashi, H. (2025). Exploring Remote Collaborative Tasks: The Impact of Avatar Representation on Dyadic Haptic Interactions in Shared Virtual Environments.. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph, 31(10), 8846-8858. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2025.3580546

Introducing Agent Personality in Crowd Simulation Improves Social Presence and Experienced Realism in Immersive VR.

Convincing crowd behavior simulation is becoming essential in many application domains, including video games, cinematography, urban planning, safety simulations, and training. In this article, we pro…

Numérique : perception de la présence d'autres individus dans un environnement numérique sans interaction
Pascoli, M., Buttussi, F., Schekotihin, K., & Chittaro, L. (2025). Introducing Agent Personality in Crowd Simulation Improves Social Presence and Experienced Realism in Immersive VR.. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph, 31(10), 7269-7283. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2025.3543740

A competitive edge: how social cues and spatial congruence influence joint attention in addressed or witnessed interactions.

Joint attention is crucial for the development of social cognition, but whether the type of relationship (i.e. cooperative or competitive) or interaction (e.g. addressed or witnessed) modulates joint …

Attention partagée et cognition sociale Numérique : perception de la présence d'autres individus dans un environnement numérique sans interaction
Blackie, I., Islam, A., Surtees, A., & Elsherif, M. M. (2025). A competitive edge: how social cues and spatial congruence influence joint attention in addressed or witnessed interactions.. R Soc Open Sci, 12(10), 250467. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250467

Ingroup solidarity drives social media engagement after political crises.

Social media are often said to exacerbate polarization by platforming hostility between groups. However, positive social emotions like ingroup solidarity may also drive social media engagement, partic…

Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique
Marks, M., Kyrychenko, Y., Gärdebo, J., & Roozenbeek, J. (2025). Ingroup solidarity drives social media engagement after political crises.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 122(35), e2512765122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2512765122