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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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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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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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Polarization of the vaccination debate on Facebook.

BACKGROUND: Vaccine hesitancy has been recognized as a major global health threat. Having access to any type of information in social media has been suggested as a potential influence on the growth of…

Schmidt, A. L., Zollo, F., Scala, A., Betsch, C., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2018). Polarization of the vaccination debate on Facebook.. Vaccine, 36(25), 3606-3612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.05.040

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The effect of partisanship and political advertising on close family ties.

Research on growing American political polarization and antipathy primarily studies public institutions and political processes, ignoring private effects, including strained family ties. Using anonymi…

Chen, M. K., & Rohla, R. (2018). The effect of partisanship and political advertising on close family ties.. Science, 360(6392), 1020-1024. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaq1433

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Is There Any Hope? How Climate Change News Imagery and Text Influence Audience Emotions and Support for Climate Mitigation Policies.

Using a national sample, this study experimentally tests the effects of news visuals and texts that emphasize either the causes and impacts of climate change or actions that can be taken to address cl…

Feldman, L., & Hart, P. S. (2018). Is There Any Hope? How Climate Change News Imagery and Text Influence Audience Emotions and Support for Climate Mitigation Policies.. Risk Anal, 38(3), 585-602. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.12868

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Fake facts and alternative truths in medical research.

BACKGROUND: Fake news and alternative facts have become commonplace in these so-called "post-factual times." What about medical research - are scientific facts fake as well? Many recent disclosures ha…

Hofmann, B. (2018). Fake facts and alternative truths in medical research.. BMC Med Ethics, 19(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-018-0243-z

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Feature engineering for sentiment analysis in e-health forums.

INTRODUCTION: Exploiting information in health-related social media services is of great interest for patients, researchers and medical companies. The challenge is, however, to provide easy, quick and…

Carrillo-de-Albornoz, J., Rodríguez, V. i. d. a. l. . J., & Plaza, L. (2018). Feature engineering for sentiment analysis in e-health forums.. PLoS One, 13(11), e0207996. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207996

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The geographic embedding of online echo chambers: Evidence from the Brexit campaign.

This study explores the geographic dependencies of echo-chamber communication on Twitter during the Brexit campaign. We review the evidence positing that online interactions lead to filter bubbles to …

Bastos, M., Mercea, D., & Baronchelli, A. (2018). The geographic embedding of online echo chambers: Evidence from the Brexit campaign.. PLoS One, 13(11), e0206841. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206841

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Reconstruction of the socio-semantic dynamics of political activist Twitter networks-Method and application to the 2017 French presidential election.

BACKGROUND: Digital spaces, and in particular social networking sites, are becoming increasingly present and influential in the functioning of our democracies. In this paper, we propose an integrated …

Gaumont, N., Panahi, M., & Chavalarias, D. (2018). Reconstruction of the socio-semantic dynamics of political activist Twitter networks-Method and application to the 2017 French presidential election.. PLoS One, 13(9), e0201879. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201879

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Polarisation politique et co-présence sociale numérique

Adolescents' Reasons to Unfriend on Facebook.

Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization.

False beliefs and confabulation can lead to lasting changes in political attitudes.

Healthcare reforms, inertia polarization and group influence.

Polarized Ukraine 2014: opinion and territorial split demonstrated with the bounded confidence XY model, parametrized by Twitter data.

Polarization of the vaccination debate on Facebook.

The effect of partisanship and political advertising on close family ties.

Is There Any Hope? How Climate Change News Imagery and Text Influence Audience Emotions and Support for Climate Mitigation Policies.

Fake facts and alternative truths in medical research.

Feature engineering for sentiment analysis in e-health forums.

The geographic embedding of online echo chambers: Evidence from the Brexit campaign.

Reconstruction of the socio-semantic dynamics of political activist Twitter networks-Method and application to the 2017 French presidential election.