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Knowledge is Power…to misinform: Examining how knowledge gaps affect engagement with COVID-19 misinformation

Social Sciences and Humanities Open
This study examined how the knowledge gap hypothesis (KGH), the belief gap hypothesis (BGH), partisan media use, and interpersonal discussion affected COVID-19 knowledge and social media engagement (SME) with related misinformation.
Ben Wasike
doaj   +1 more source

Legal Professionals Use an Implicit Checklist to Assess Expert Witness Credibility

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In a court of law, some forms of evidence are too technical to interpret without the help of an expert witness. However, expert testimony sometimes leads to wrongful conviction. We used an online survey to quantitatively compare how legal professionals (n = 122) and lay people (n = 109) understood what makes an expert witness credible.
Mahensingh Deonaran, Yvan I. Russell, Mandeep K. Dhami   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social media is a source of health-related misinformation

, 2020
Implications for practice and research - When nurses and midwives encounter misinformation on social media, they should provide or direct individuals to sources of accurate information.
Massey, D, Rolls, K
core   +1 more source

Toward Intelligent Carbon Management: A Systems‐Based Framework for Social and Technological Assessment in CCU Applications

Chemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.
A systems‐based framework integrates nine dimensions of CCU assessment with multi‐criteria scoring, weighting, scenario analysis, and dynamic weighting to support context‐sensitive decision‐making. ABSTRACT Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technologies are increasingly recognized as key instruments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions while ...
Afshin Poorkhanalikoudehi, Thorsten Wack, Hannah Charlotte Müller, Julia‐Lena Reinermann, Görge Deerberg   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Social Irresponsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether and how firms' adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is associated with corporate social irresponsibility (CSI). Ex ante, theories provide conflicting predictions regarding this association, making it an important empirical question.
Tobias Steindl
wiley   +1 more source

After the Climate Assembly: A Mixed Methods Study on the Impacts of Participation on Political Attitudes and Climate Behaviours

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate assemblies are a novel method of public consultation in which quasi randomly selected citizens are brought together to learn about climate change, discuss with their fellow citizens, and recommend solutions to the commissioning body.
Patricia Mockler, Jayne Carrick, Stephen Elstub   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community as Medicine: A Qualitative Exploration of Meaningful Social Support and Health for Trans‐ and Gender‐Diverse People in England

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The poor mental and physical health of trans‐ and gender‐diverse (TGD) young people is well established and commonly attributed to gender minority stress. Although recent research has shown that social support can mitigate these effects, less attention has been paid to the psychological processes through which this occurs.
Chase Staras, Juliet Wakefield, Daragh McDermott, Bethany Jones   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Influencers and Echo Chambers in the Diffusion of Vaccine Misinformation: Opinion Mining in a Taiwanese Online Community

JMIR Infodemiology
BackgroundPrevalence and spread of misinformation are a concern for the exacerbation of vaccine hesitancy and a resulting reduction in vaccine intent. However, few studies have focused on how vaccine misinformation diffuses online, who is responsible for
Jason Dean-Chen Yin, Tzu-Chin Wu, Chia-Yun Chen, Fen Lin, Xiaohui Wang   +4 more
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Conspiracy Beliefs as a Metacognitive Dimension of Intergroup Attitudes: A Novel Framework for Interventions

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Apart from their well‐established associations with individual characteristics, experiences of existential threats and either objective or perceived structural circumstances in which people live, conspiracy beliefs are now being increasingly recognised as a reflection of group‐related motivations, identity‐protective motives, prejudice and ...
Magdalena Adamus, Jais Adam‐Troian, Maria Chayinska   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collective Anti‐Mattering: Belief That One's Group Is Being Disregarded Fuels Collective Action and Authoritarian Leadership Support Among Both Advantaged and Disadvantaged Groups

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Groups are motivated not only by resources and status, but also by whether they matter to others. We introduce collective anti‐mattering, the belief that one's group does not count in the eyes of outgroups or society, and examine its emotional and political consequences.
Nassim Tabri, Isabelle Boutros, Michael J. A. Wohl   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source