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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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The psychological and political correlates of conspiracy theory beliefs
Scientific Reports, 2022 Understanding the individual-level characteristics associated with conspiracy theory beliefs is vital to addressing and combatting those beliefs. While researchers have identified numerous psychological and political characteristics associated with ...
Joseph Uscinski +10 more
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, 2014 This chapter surveys the overall levels of conspiracy theories in American history from 1890 to 2010 based on data from letters to the editor of major U.S. dailies.
Uscinski, Joseph E +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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Conspiracy Theories about Infectious Diseases: An Introduction
Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2021 Understanding why people believe conspiracy theories related to disease outbreaks and the consequences of such beliefs is critical for combating both the COVID-19 pandemic and its corresponding “infodemic.” In the introduction to this special issue on ...
Ying-yi Hong +2 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.Many key ecosystem functions are affected by plant roots and their traits. However, understanding of the patterns in, and drivers of, root traits lags far behind equivalent knowledge of above‐ground tissues, particularly in boreal old growth forests. We surveyed community‐level root traits across 11 old growth forests spanning a wide latitudinal range ...
Naomi Vöhringer +4 more
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Does Rhetoric Drive Conspiracy Theory Beliefs?
GenealogyWhat leads people to believe in conspiracy theories? While scholars have learned much about both the psychological, social, and political factors associated with individuals’ receptivity to conspiracy theories, and the rhetoric with which these ideas are
Casey Klofstad, Joseph Uscinski
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BMC Psychology, 2022 Conspiracy theories can have particularly harmful effects by negatively shaping health-related behaviours. A significant number of COVID-19 specific conspiracy theories emerged in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic outbreak.
Konstantinos Tsamakis +9 more
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A tipping point for tipping points
Oikos, EarlyView.Tipping points (TPs) – often understood as abrupt changes to a system – have become a popular framework for ecology and environmental science across spatial and temporal scales. The underlying, quantitative foundation of TP theory is built on mathematical models from catastrophe and predator–prey theories.
David G. Jenkins +1 more
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