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Beyond deficit and coexistence: Modeling the knowledge-conspiracy-mistrust configuration in public understanding of science. [PDF]

PLoS One
Süerdem A, Zdravkov S, Ivanov MJ.
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The Evidence Base of Fluoride Videos on TikTok

International Journal of Dental Hygiene, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective The fluoride controversy has intensified in recent years, partly due to new research suggesting negative health effects. Simultaneously, TikTok has become a prominent platform for disseminating oral health‐related content, but its accuracy remains uncertain.
Annel Lueth, Lance Brendan Young
wiley   +1 more source

How conspiracy theories are defined: A systematic qualitative review of academic definitions. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Nefes TS, Martínez Escobar J, González-Albo B.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Accelerating Platform User Growth: Pinduoduo's Multi‐Motivational Selfish Referral Strategy

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Referral strategies, whereby existing platform users recruit new users and thereby strengthen same‐side network effects, have long been central to digital platforms' efforts to grow the installed user base. Current referral strategies often require the referee to complete a transaction as a prerequisite for the referrer to receive the reward ...
Runyu Shi, Panos Constantinides, Federico Iannacci   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Through Criminal Selectivity and Lawfare: Non‐Democratic Politics to Entrench Authoritarian Populist Imagination

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across much of the Global South and increasingly in the Global North, authoritarian populist imagination blurs boundaries between legality and illegality, weaponising law to suppress dissent while tolerating violence by allied actors. This imagination establishes a symbolic boundary mechanism between punitive/eliminative violence for political
Erman Örsan Yetiş
wiley   +1 more source

Longitudinal predictors of vaccine conspiracy beliefs: findings from a five-wave panel study in Japan. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Yamamoto H, Suzuki T, Ogawa Y, Umetani R.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Belief in a Norm‐Consistent Climate Policy Conspiracy Theory and Non‐Normative Collective Action

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Volume 55, Issue 5, Page 343-358, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Believing in conspiracy theories is connected to support for non‐normative collective action. One explanation might be that this is due to both being non‐normative. Alternatively, it might be the case that non‐normative action appears justified based on what conspiracy theories alleging harm to a personally relevant group due to powerholders ...
Lotte Pummerer, Lara Ditrich, Kevin Winter, Kai Sassenberg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chatbots reduce health-related conspiracy beliefs not because of but despite being perceived as AI. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Ballot P, van de Sande Y, Schraffenberger H, Schmid P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Pathway to Non‐Normative Political Engagement: The Role of Psychological Reactance in Episodic Memories During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dissatisfaction with Institutions, governments, or the status quo can be expressed via normative (e.g., sign a petition) and non‐normative (e.g., destroy public property) political engagement. The type of political engagement endorsed may be influenced by memories rooted in psychological reactance, as chronic memory activation is known to ...
Marie‐Jeanne Leonard, Aurélie Thuot‐Jolicoeur, Frederick L. Philippe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Differential Associations of Authoritarian Submission and Traditionalism with Fake-News Detection and Conspiracy-Claim Endorsement: Evidence from Two Romanian Samples in the 2024-2025 Electoral Cycle. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Răileanu-Olariu T, Mutu A.
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