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Birth of a scapegoat: An actor‐affect‐affordance model of symbolic attribution in the digital age

Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract How do scapegoating narratives emerge, diffuse, and solidify within digital media ecosystems? This paper introduces an actor‐affect‐affordance (3A) model to explain how complex social problems become symbolically attributed to marginalized groups.
Jack Gabriel Risien Wippell
wiley   +1 more source

Rumor Detection on Potential Hot Topics with Bi-directional Graph Attention Network [PDF]

Jisuanji kexue
Most of the existing methods for detecting rumors on social media networks typically focus on individual posts as the target of detection,which leads to a cold start problem due to insufficient data,adversely affecting the detection performance.Moreover ...
LI Shao, JIANG Fangting, YANG Xinyan, LIANG Gang
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“It Was Like They'd Lit a Fuse”: A Mixed‐Methods Investigation Into Rage

Aggressive Behavior, Volume 52, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Impulsive acts of violence are perpetrated by a small proportion of society, which anecdotal evidence suggests often occurs in a rage state. Rage has generally been conceptualized as extreme anger, but it may be qualitatively different from extreme anger.
Thomas F. Denson, Eddie Harmon‐Jones, Johannes Larsson, Ashlee Curtis, Travis Harries, Peter G. Miller   +5 more
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The Biofuels Blueprint: Understanding the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 565-590, July 2026.
ABSTRACT We provide a comprehensive review of the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), synthesizing nearly two decades of program evolution, market outcomes, and economic analysis. The RFS mandates minimum volumes of renewable fuel blending through a nested structure based on life‐cycle greenhouse gas reductions, enforced via tradeable Renewable ...
Maria Gerveni, Todd Hubbs, Scott H. Irwin, James H. Stock   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

SEDIS—A Rumor Propagation Model for Social Networks by Incorporating the Human Nature of Selection

, 2022
The explosive evolution of the internet has paved the path for the rise of social networks, which can help people connect remotely. Currently, social networks are commonly used for sharing thoughts, feelings, information, and personal life, which vary ...
Sreeraag Govindankutty, Shynu Padinjappurathu Gopalan   +1 more
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Countdown: Timespaces of Deadlines and Displacement

Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how politically structured deadlines and their accompanying countdowns generate dynamics of displacement by shaping anticipations of violence and prompting accelerated migration. Drawing on ethnographic research on Burundi's 2015 third‐term crisis and The Gambia's 2017 electoral impasse, we show how constitutional ...
Tone Sommerfelt, Simon Turner
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic analysis of a fractional-order rumor spreading model with double time delay under higher-order interactions

Nonlinear Analysis
Although traditional network-based models also explore higher-order interactions, they are limited in capturing the complex impacts of multibody interactions, making it difficult to characterize the reinforcement effect in rumor propagation.
Yang Xia, Haijun Jiang, Jiarong Li, Shuzhen Yu   +3 more
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Anti‐Black Racism in Nursing in Canada and Black Nurses' Resistance: An Analytic Review of Newspaper Coverage, 1940s–2020

Nursing Inquiry, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Black women's participation in nursing in Canada has been marked by a long history of discrimination and exclusion, even after they were formally permitted to enter the profession in the mid‐1940s. Examining mainstream Canadian newspaper coverage, this study traces anti‐Black racism in Canadian nursing from the 1940s to 2020.
Goldameir Oneka, Anne‐Emanuelle Birn
wiley   +1 more source

Macroeconomic Expectations in a War

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Using short‐ and long‐term macroeconomic forecasts, we estimate the projected cost of the Russian full‐scale invasion of Ukraine for countries in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Shortly after the invasion, the projected cumulative cost over 6 years stood at $2.44 trillion for the region.
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Vittal Vasudevan
wiley   +1 more source

Early detection of rumors based on propagation prediction in social media

Complex & Intelligent Systems
Social media, particularly microblogging platforms, have been more and more essential for rapid information sharing and public discussion. However, they are also ideal platforms for spreading rumors, often leading to serious consequences (e.g., social ...
Lu Zhang, Yuguang Chen, Xi Luo, Haiting Zhu, Gaofeng He   +4 more
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