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Longitudinal trajectories of suicidal ideation among child welfare-involved 7- to 12-year-old children. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Child Psychol Psychiatry
Ayer L   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Government Health Warnings and the “Boomerang” Effect

open access: yesPsychological Reports, 1979
The experiment shows that the presence of a government health warning on cigarette advertisements can “boomerang,” leading to an increased desire to smoke. 24 housewives saw a series of 25 cigarette advertisements; for 12 subjects the health warning was present and for 12 it was absent. Half the subjects in each group were smokers and half non-smokers.
M, Hyland, J, Birrell
openaire   +3 more sources

Boomerang Effects in Science Communication.

open access: yesCommun. Res., 2012
The deficit-model of science communication assumes increased communication about science issues will move public opinion toward the scientific consensus. However, in the case of climate change, public polarization about the issue has increased in recent years, not diminished. In this study, we draw from theories of motivated reasoning, social identity,
P. Sol Hart, Erik C. Nisbet
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On the Esoteric Boomerang Effect

Perspectives on Political Science, 2015
AbstractIn Philosophy Between the Lines Arthur Melzer credits Leo Strauss with the rediscovery of esoteric writing. The purpose of esoteric writing, Strauss argued, was originally to defend an author from persecution by the authorities. We point out the extraordinary reversal that has occurred as a result of the application of that rediscovery to ...
Catherine H. Zuckert, Michael P. Zuckert
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Decolonizing the boomerang effect in global queer politics: A new critical framework for sociological analysis of human rights contestation [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Sociology, 2019
This article proposes a new critical framework for analysing transnational human rights-claiming and contestation: a ‘critical model of the boomerang effect’, that can embody sociological understanding and insights from decolonizing analyses. The article
Matthew Waites
exaly   +2 more sources

The “Boomerang Effect”: Lessons Learned from Power Sharing in Kenya and Zimbabwe

2023
The governments of national unity in Kenya (2008-2013) and Zimbabwe (2009-2013) have relevance beyond Eastern Africa. This chapter examines how political science has learned lessons from both experiences. It does so by focusing on three bodies of literature: (1) international data sets on power sharing; (2) the comparative literature on ...
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