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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

Repetition could increase the perceived truth of conspiracy theories. [PDF]

Psychon Bull Rev, 2023
Béna J, Rihet M, Carreras O, Terrier P.
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

Conspiracy Mentality, Conspiracy Beliefs, and the Four Socio‐Psychological Levels of Analysis: A Latent Profile Moderation Analysis

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relationship between conspiracy mentality (CM) and belief in specific conspiracy theories (CBs) has been described as bidirectional, but it remains unclear under which socio‐psychological conditions each direction of the relationship is reinforced.
Achilleas Piliousis, Antonis Gardikiotis
wiley   +1 more source

Sharing conspiracy theories and staying in power: How leaders' false theories influence leadership perception. [PDF]

Br J Soc Psychol
Cao S, van Prooijen JW, van Vugt M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Do Words Matter? Evaluative Media Framing, Protest Actions, and Donations to Climate Action

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public support is essential to effective climate policies, yet responses to climate activism may depend on how protests are covered in the news. Building on research on activist tactics, media framing, and construal level theory, we examined whether the tone of media coverage (neutral vs.
Myriam N. Bechtoldt, Martina Testori, Bianca Beersma   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Please reduce the gap! How psychological distance to politics fuels belief in conspiracy theories. [PDF]

Br J Soc Psychol
Papaioannou K, Pantazi M.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Making of the EU's Geoeconomic ‘Bazooka’: The Anti‐Coercion Instrument and the Role of Think Tanks in European Union Foreign Policy

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The Anti‐Coercion Instrument (ACI), the most powerful tool in the EU's geoeconomic arsenal, has its origins in the first Trump US presidency and has recently been brandished again as a potential response to Trump's coercive tariffs. Its centrality to the EU's ‘geoeconomic turn’ and the twists and turns of its legislative history have been ...
Jaša Veselinovič
wiley   +1 more source

Marriage of Love? Cross‐Fertilisation Between Illiberalism and Euroscepticism

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The article contributes to the conceptual mapping of the interaction between Euroscepticism and illiberalism, suggesting that there is a mutual reinforcement process between them. The overlaps cover the following areas: the critique of supranationalism, the resulting defence of national sovereignty, the defence of the (national) majority ...
Vít Hloušek, Vratislav Havlík
wiley   +1 more source