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Consensus and contrarianism on climate change: How the USA case informs dynamics elsewhere
Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review, 2016 Against a contrasting backdrop of consensus on key issues on climate science, a heterogeneous group dubbed climate «skeptics», «contrarians», «deniers» have significantly shaped contemporary discussions of climate science, politics and policy in the ...
Maxwell Boykoff
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Negative response to an excessive bias by a mixed population of voters
Condensed Matter Physics, 2017 We study an outcome of a vote in a population of voters exposed to an externally applied bias in favour of one of two potential candidates. The population consists of ordinary individuals, that are in majority and tend to align their opinion with the ...
V.S. Dotsenko +2 more
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Multistable states in a system of coupled phase oscillators with inertia. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2017 We investigate the generalized Kuramoto model of globally coupled oscillators with inertia, in which oscillators with positive coupling strength are conformists and oscillators with negative coupling strength are contrarians.
Yuan D +5 more
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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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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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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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Stock Price Deviations From Fundamentals Levels: Mis‐Valuation due to Investor Overconfidence?
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We use the Residual Income Valuation Model to obtain fundamental values for sample stocks in six Eurozone markets. We then estimate the deviation between the fundamental values and actual stock prices. Subsequently, we examine whether these deviations can be systematically explained by business cycle trends, trends in local economic sentiment,
Stella N. Spilioti +1 more
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THE IMPORTANCE OF DISAGREEING: CONTRARIANS AND EXTREMISM IN THE CODA MODEL
, 2010 In this paper, we study the effects of introducing contrarians in a model of Opinion Dynamics where the agents have internal continuous opinions, but exchange information only about a binary choice that is a function of their continuous opinion, the CODA
ANDRÉ C. R. MARTINS +3 more
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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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Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine how the processing of social information for identity‐driven consumption choices is moderated by individual differences in the psychological management of multiple identities. We specifically show that consumers who experience their multiple identities as more incompatible—or low identity integrators—are less likely to conform to ...
Kathrin J. Hanek, Stephen M. Garcia
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