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Suicide contagion: a systematic review of definitions and research utility.

PLoS ONE, 2014
ObjectivesDespite the common use of contagion to analogize the spread of suicide, there is a lack of rigorous assessment of the underlying concept or theory supporting the use of this term.
Qijin Cheng, Hong Li, Vincent Silenzio, Eric D Caine   +3 more
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COVID-19 Effects on the Relationship between Cryptocurrencies: Can It Be Contagion? Insights from Econophysics Approaches

Entropy, 2023
Cryptocurrencies are relatively new and innovative financial assets. They are a topic of interest to investors and academics due to their distinctive features.
Dora Almeida, Andreia Dionísio, Isabel Vieira, Paulo Ferreira   +3 more
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The influence of angry customer outbursts on service providers’ facial displays and affective states [PDF]

, 2007
This article explores the existence and extent of emotional contagion, as measured by facial displays and reported affective states, in a service failure event.
Butcher, Ken, Dallimore, Karen, Sparks, Beverley   +2 more
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Sympoiesis, Autopoiesis and Immunity: How to Coexist with Nonhuman Others?

Text Matters, 2022
In this essay I will discuss Donna J. Haraway’s notion of sympoiesis and examine different modes of cohabitation or hybridization with nonhuman others. Such concepts as sympoiesis, or holobiont, question the notion of the biological individual and also ...
Audronė Žukauskaitė
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Haptic Contagion

Filozofski vestnik, 2023
During the pandemic there were many ways of handling the contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus, most of them in haptic terms, or in terms of touch: masks, hand disinfection, social distancing, quarantines, (self)isolations. Touch thus became not only the privileged object of the new bio-politics, striving to preserve life at all costs, but also what was lost ...
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Information manipulation on TikTok and its relation to American users' beliefs about China

Frontiers in Social Psychology
Three studies explored how TikTok, a China-owned social media platform, may be manipulated to conceal content critical of China while amplifying narratives that align with Chinese Communist Party objectives.
Danit Finkelstein, Sonia Yanovsky, Jacob Zucker, Anisha Jagdeep, Collin Vasko, Ankita Jagdeep, Lee Jussim, Joel Finkelstein   +7 more
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Slightly generalized Generalized Contagion: Unifying simple models of biological and social spreading

, 2017
We motivate and explore the basic features of generalized contagion, a model mechanism that unifies fundamental models of biological and social contagion.
C Castillo-Chavez, DJ Daley, DJ Daley, DJ Watts, DJ Watts, DJ Watts, F Bass, JD Murray, JP Gleeson, L Weng, M Granovetter, MS Granovetter, MS Granovetter, PS Dodds, PS Dodds, PS Dodds, SH Strogatz, TC Schelling, TC Schelling, W Goffman, WO Kermack, WO Kermack, WO Kermack   +22 more
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Foreign funding of U.S. higher education relates to sanctioning of scholars and antisemitism

Frontiers in Social Psychology
We examined relations between foreign funding of U.S. colleges and universities and campus political developments. Seven studies investigated associations between foreign funding and campus liberal democratic norms, specifically, deterioration of free ...
Michael Bass, Alexander Reid Ross, Ben Wolfson, Joel Finkelstein, Sonia Yanovsky, Danit Finkelstein, Sean T. Stevens, Nathan Honeycutt, Pamela Paresky, Pamela Paresky, Ayal Feinberg, Charles Asher Small, Lee Jussim   +12 more
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Mutual Information Based Analysis for the Distribution of Financial Contagion in Stock Markets

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2017
This paper applies mutual information to research the distribution of financial contagion in global stock markets during the US subprime crisis. First, we symbolize the daily logarithmic stock returns based on their quantiles.
Xudong Wang, Xiaofeng Hui
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Are additives unnatural? Generality and mechanisms of additivity dominance

Judgment and Decision Making, 2017
Naturalness is important and valued by most lay Western individuals. Yet, little is known about the lay meaning of “natural”. We examine the phenomenon of additivity dominance: adding something to a natural product (additive) reduces naturalness more ...
Sydney E. Scott, Paul Rozin
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