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Air pollution as cause of mental disease: Appraisal of the evidence.
PLoS Biology, 2019 A causal association of air pollution with mental diseases is an intriguing possibility raised in a Short Report just published in PLOS Biology. Despite analyses involving large data sets, the available evidence has substantial shortcomings, and a long ...
John P A Ioannidis
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Macroscopic and microscopic perspectives for adoption of technologies in the USA.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Adoption of a new technology depends on many factors. Marketing, advertising, social interactions, and personal convictions are relevant features when deciding to adopt, or not, a new technology.
Alexsandro M Carvalho +3 more
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Episode 131: Compassionate Contrarians with Catherine Amey
, 2019 This week on Knowing Animals we are joined by Catherine Amey. Catherine is a New Zealand based, independent scholar. We discuss her book ‘The Compassionate Contrarians: A history of vegetarians in Aotearoa New Zealand’, which was published by Rebel Press
Amey, Catherine, O'Sullivan, Siobhan
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On the Role of Memory in an Asset Pricing Model with Heterogeneous Beliefs [PDF]
Financial Theory and Practice, 2008 The paper discusses the role of memory in an asset pricing model with heterogeneous beliefs. In particular, we were interested in how memory in the fitness measure affects the stability of evolutionary adaptive systems and the survival of technical ...
Miroslav Verbič
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, 2023 This study seeks to systematically investigate the characteristics linked with two different forms of non-conformity. We seek to understand how people think about contrarians and mavericks.
Xiaobin Lou +3 more
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Ratio-Dependent Contrarian Activation in Opinion Dynamics
EntropyI study the impact of mixed contrarians on the opinion dynamics of a heterogenous population with conformists using the Galam Majority Model. Activation of contrarians is a function of the majority/minority ratio in the local groups of discussion ...
Serge Galam
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Fake News: “No Ban, No Spread—With Sequestration”
PhysicsTo curb the spread of fake news, I propose an alternative to the current trend of implementing coercive measures. This approach would preserve freedom of speech while neutralizing the social impact of fake news.
Serge Galam
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Nature Communications, 2019 An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
Alexander Michael Petersen +2 more
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The noisy voter model under the influence of contrarians
, 2019 The influence of contrarians on the noisy voter model is studied at the mean-field level. The noisy voter model is a variant of the voter model where agents can adopt two opinions, optimistic or pessimistic, and can change them by means of an imitation ...
Khalil, Nagi, Toral, Raúl
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Firm‐Level Climate Risk and Stock Price Crash: Does Investor Attention or Sentiment Matter?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study moves beyond traditional crash‐risk channels focused on managerial bad‐news hoarding to examine how firm‐level climate risk translates into stock price crashes through investor behaviour. Using a novel text‐based measure of climate exposure extracted from earnings call transcripts, we capture firm‐specific regulatory, physical and ...
Hoa Phan +4 more
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