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Covid, Conspiracy Theories, and the Nordic Countries [PDF]
, 2023 Norway, Denmark, and Sweden are often subsumed under the same label as Nordic, high trust, social democratic welfare states. However, their local communities react to local events, and they have their own, local conspiracy theories in addition to those ...
Dyrendal, Asbjørn
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Everyone Knows It's a Hoax: The Role of Perceived Descriptive Norms in Conspiracy Beliefs
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT People's belief in conspiracy theories is shaped by social influence processes. This contribution investigated these processes in six studies (total N = 2906) by examining the role of descriptive norms, that is, the perception that others endorse conspiracy theories.
Jan‐Willem van Prooijen +3 more
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Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories and the Need for Cognitive Closure
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 An important component of conspiracy theories is how they influence, and are influenced by, the evaluation of potential evidence. Some individuals may be more open minded regarding certain explanations for events whereas others may seek closure and thus ...
Patrick John LEMAN, Marco eCinnirella
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The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Trust in childhood vaccination is a concern for health policy, particularly in settings of political transition and conflict, where governance, institutional legitimacy and service delivery are often under strain. It is against this backdrop that this study aims to describe evolving interactions between health system governance, trust and ...
Harriet Dwyer +7 more
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Information Research: An International Electronic JournalIntroduction. Antivaccine, denialist, and conspiracy ideas are generally part of an ecosystem of beliefs reinforcing each other. With the advent of covid-19, these ideas figure among the main disinformation contents of counter-official discourses.
Julio C. Aguila Sanchez +2 more
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Cognitive reflection and the coronavirus conspiracy beliefs
, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic reminded us of how quickly conspiracy ideas can spread and how dire their consequences could be. One important question is what traits would predict susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs.
Negar Karimi +3 more
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Translating Riedl: The Circulation and Operationalisation of Evolutionary Ideas
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, EarlyView.Rupert Riedl's Order in Living Organisms proposed a systems theory of evolution decades before the concepts it pioneered—homology, burden, the imitative epigenotype—reached the agenda of evolutionary biology. This paper reconstructs the lineages that operationalized his insights across several fields and explores the internal and external reasons for ...
Laura Nuño de la Rosa
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Small Community Businesses in Slums: A Perspective on Kenyan Slum Networks
Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on networks, the relational dimensions and structures cocreated by small community businesses and cooperative societies through everyday entrepreneurship in slum neighborhoods remain undertheorized. Drawing upon 1166 small community businesses, we conceptualize the relational dimensions and structures underlying ...
Amon Simba +3 more
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Criminologie, 2022 Cet article porte sur le rôle des plateformes de médias sociaux (Twitter en particulier) dans la fabrique et la diffusion du discours opposé aux mesures sanitaires dans la province du Québec, durant les premiers jours de la pandémie de COVID-19, en 2020.
Samuel Tanner, Aurélie Campana
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Good Engineering Beats Good Metrics
Journal of the Society for Information Display, EarlyView.Contact‐controlled transistors should be judged by how their device characteristics combine to deliver circuit‐ and system‐level outcomes, rather than by isolated headline metrics. In display applications, low saturation voltage and output conductance can reduce supply voltage and improve uniformity, while contact engineering and asymmetric switch ...
Eva Bestelink +8 more
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