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Testing persuasive messaging to encourage COVID-19 risk reduction.
PLoS ONE, 2022 What types of public health messages are effective at changing people's beliefs and intentions to practice social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19? We conducted two randomized experiments in summer 2020 that assigned respondents to read a public
Scott E Bokemper +4 more
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Knowledge and Beliefs of Tanta University Employees Regarding Emerging Respiratory Tract Infections and Its Preventive Measures Based on Health Belief Model [PDF]
Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal, 2021 Background: The emerging respiratory tract infections (ERTIs) may imply future possible pandemics that present a persistent threat to public health and a huge burden on healthcare services.
Hanan Ebrahim Essa, Fatma Soliman
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2023 Background Conspiracy beliefs have become widespread throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous studies have shown that endorsing conspiracy beliefs leads to lower protective guideline adherence (i.e., wearing face masks), posing a threat to public ...
Andreas Goreis +18 more
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Arctic climate policy development: taking public beliefs into account [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 For the effective implementation of climate policy in the Arctic, public beliefs must be taken into account in its development. The research presented in this report shows that the majority are inclined to believe that climate change is occurring, where ...
Klyuchnikova Elena, Klyuchnikov Gleb
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REIMAGINING RELIGION AND BELIEF IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE [PDF]
Modern Believing, 2020 The renewed visibility of religion and belief at the start of the twenty-first century challenges the expectations of twentieth-century secularisation theory, which predicted the gradual withdrawal of religion from the public sphere. Policymakers are therefore often ill-equipped to accommodate religion within formerly secular paradigms governing the ...
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Public beliefs on the relationship between lying and memory [PDF]
Psychology, Crime & Law, 2021 In two studies, we surveyed the beliefs of undergraduate students (Study 1) and the general public (Study 2) about deceptive behavior, memory functioning, and the effects of lying on memory. We compared participants' beliefs with the current memory and deception literature.
Riesthuis, Paul +3 more
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The causal impact of local weather anomalies on beliefs about the occurrence of climate change
Environmental Research Communications, 2023 Research has demonstrated that members of the public recognize anomalous weather patterns, and that subjective perceptions of the weather are related to beliefs about the occurrence of climate change.
Deven Carlson +6 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2008 Background There is limited evidence of the influence of psychosocial factors and health beliefs on public dental patient's patterns of service use in Australia.
Spencer A John, Luzzi Liana
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Stealth Democracy: Authoritarianism and Democratic Deliberation
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2018 In Stealth Democracy, Hibbing and Theiss-Morse seek to show that much of the American public desires “stealth democracy”--a democracy run like a business with little deliberation or public input.
Peter Muhlberger
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Public Continuum Beliefs for Different Levels of Depression Severity
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction: The notion that depression is a disorder that moves along a continuum is well-established. Similarly, the belief in the continuity of mental illness is considered an important element in the stigma process.
Anna C. Makowski +2 more
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