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Comparing Mobility and Spatial Pathways in the Hourly Prediction of Violent Crime

open access: yesUrban Science, 2022
Much research has documented the contagiousness of violence. Some of this work has focused on contagiousness as operationalized by the spread across geographical space, while other work has examined the spread within social networks.
Karl Vachuska
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Suicide contagion: a systematic review of definitions and research utility.

open access: yesPLoS 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   +3 more
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The fear of contagion and the contagion of fear [PDF]

open access: yesGroup Analysis, 2020
I am writing from my perspective as a white woman and a mother, who specialises in working with group-analytic larger groups. It was written in the UK, in May 2020, five months after the virus, COVID-19, first spread to Europe and threatened to destroy life as we had known it.
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Suicide Contagion [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Trauma Reports, 2021
Suicide is a serious healthcare concern worldwide. In the USA, suicide was the tenth leading cause of death prior to 2020 when it was displaced as a result of the death toll from COVID-19.Suicide behavior is the result of the interaction between the individual's predisposing factors and precipitating factors.
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A Comparative Study of Foucauldian Models of Discipline in Nazik Al-Malaika’s “Cholera” and Camisha Jones’s “On Working Remotely”

open access: yesTranscultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023
The Foucauldian conceptualizations of the disciplinary mechanisms implemented by the medical supervision of contagions and disability are noticeable in both Nazik Al-Malaika’s “Cholera” and Camisha L.
Riham Ziady
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Reversing the causal arrow: Incidence and properties of negative backward magical contagion in Americans

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2018
Backward magical contagion describes instances in which individuals (sources) express discomfort or pleasure when something connected to them (medium; e.g., hair, a diary) falls into the possession of a negatively- or positively-perceived individual ...
Paul Rozin   +2 more
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Information manipulation on TikTok and its relation to American users' beliefs about China

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +7 more
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Contamination, association, or social communication: An examination of alternative accounts for contagion effects

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2018
Individuals avoid objects that have been in physical contact with morally offensive or disgusting entities. This has been called negative magical contagion, an implicit belief in the transmission of essence by physical contact. Alternatively, individuals
Natalie O. Fedotova, Paul Rozin
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Foreign funding of U.S. higher education relates to sanctioning of scholars and antisemitism

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +12 more
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DOES ISLAMIC BANKING PROMOTE FINANCIAL STABILITY? EVIDENCE FROM AN AGENT-BASED MODEL

open access: yesJournal of Islamic Monetary Economics and Finance, 2021
Islamic banking has come to the forefront as being one of the fastest growing branch of the global financial industry in recent years. In this study we evaluate whether coexistence of Islamic and conventional banks promote financial stability.
Omer Faruk Tekdogan, Burak Sencer Atasoy
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