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Assessing Policy‐Oriented Learning About Climate‐Related Forest Disturbances in Europe
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT European forests provide multiple ecosystem services but are increasingly under pressure from climate‐related disturbances such as droughts, storms and insect calamities. Forest policy is an important driver for the adaptation of forest management practices to climate change.
Pascal Renaud‐Bernath +8 more
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Ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars [PDF]
The authors analyze the relationship between ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars. Several recent papers have argued that the uncertainty about the relative power of the contenders in a war will tend to increase its duration.
Reynal-Querol, Marta, Montalvo, Jose G.
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International Journal of Communication, 2019 This study is concerned with the role of persistent online incivility in the dynamics of public opinion polarization. It examines how cyberbalkanization, contentiousness of the political context, online incivility, and opinion polarization at the ...
Francis L.F. Lee +2 more
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Performative Contingency and Affective Polarization
European Journal of Analytic PhilosophyRecent philosophical approaches to affective polarization have moved beyond purely identitarian and emotivist frameworks, emphasizing instead its multi-dimensional structure.
Patrizia Pedrini, Jacopo Marchetti
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Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders +4 more
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Demo 24-07 Polarization by Scattering
, 2001 Light is polarized when it scatters from materials like air or water. This demonstration shows some of the properties of this polarization, using the apparatus of Figure 1, in which the light beam passes through a water tank into which a small amount ...
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Harnessing Diversity: Majority‐Group Acculturation Predicts Creativity and Flourishing Over Time
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Creativity and flourishing are core aims of higher education (HE) institutions and government initiatives globally. Large‐scale projects have linked creativity and flourishing with cultural diversity, yet their associations with majority‐group acculturation (i.e., how members of dominant culture groups adopt minority‐cultural elements and/or ...
David Colledge +9 more
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Affective polarization and democratic backsliding
Evidence is strong that affective polarization and democratic backsliding are interlinked phenomena. But research still examines the causal directions between the two, mediating causal mechanisms, and the relation between individual-level polarization ...
Somer, Murat, McCoy, J.
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Generation and characterization of polarization scrambled optical signals [PDF]
, 2012 Controlling the state of polarization of a light beam of an optical fiber is of crucial importance. Non-Linear Polarization Pulling (NLPP) is an all-optical way to control the state of polarization of signals which has been proposed in recent years ...
Pegoraro, Alex
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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 +2 more
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