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Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing.

Many critics raise concerns about the prevalence of 'echo chambers' on social media and their potential role in increasing political polarization. However, the lack of available data and the challenge…

Nyhan, B., Settle, J., Thorson, E., Wojcieszak, M., Barberá, P., Chen, A. Y., Allcott, H., Brown, T., Crespo-Tenorio, A., Dimmery, D., Freelon, D., Gentzkow, M., González-Bailón, S., Guess, A. M., Kennedy, E., Kim, Y. M., Lazer, D., Malhotra, N., Moehler, D., … Tucker, J. A. (2023). Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing.. Nature, 620(7972), 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06297-w

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Visual perspective, distance, and felt presence of others in dreams.

The peripersonal space, that is, the limited space surrounding the body, involves multisensory coding and representation of the self in space. Previous studies have shown that peripersonal space repre…

Numérique : perception de la présence d'autres individus dans un environnement numérique sans interaction

Erdeniz, B., Tekgün, E., Lenggenhager, B., & Lopez, C. (2023). Visual perspective, distance, and felt presence of others in dreams.. Conscious Cogn, 113, 103547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2023.103547

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Reshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions.

We studied the effects of exposure to reshared content on Facebook during the 2020 US election by assigning a random set of consenting, US-based users to feeds that did not contain any reshares over a…

Guess, A. M., Malhotra, N., Pan, J., Barberá, P., Allcott, H., Brown, T., Crespo-Tenorio, A., Dimmery, D., Freelon, D., Gentzkow, M., González-Bailón, S., Kennedy, E., Kim, Y. M., Lazer, D., Moehler, D., Nyhan, B., Rivera, C. V., Settle, J., Thomas, D. R., … Tucker, J. A. (2023). Reshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions.. Science, 381(6656), 404-408. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add8424

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How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?

We investigated the effects of Facebook's and Instagram's feed algorithms during the 2020 US election. We assigned a sample of consenting users to reverse-chronologically-ordered feeds instead of the …

Guess, A. M., Malhotra, N., Pan, J., Barberá, P., Allcott, H., Brown, T., Crespo-Tenorio, A., Dimmery, D., Freelon, D., Gentzkow, M., González-Bailón, S., Kennedy, E., Kim, Y. M., Lazer, D., Moehler, D., Nyhan, B., Rivera, C. V., Settle, J., Thomas, D. R., … Tucker, J. A. (2023). How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?. Science, 381(6656), 398-404. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abp9364

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Facebook 'echo chamber' has little impact on polarized views, according to study.

Petrić, H. o. w. e. . N. (2023). Facebook 'echo chamber' has little impact on polarized views, according to study.. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02425-8

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Counter-stereotypical messaging and partisan cues: Moving the needle on vaccines in a polarized United States.

This paper reports results from a large-scale randomized controlled trial assessing whether counter-stereotypical messaging and partisan cues can induce people to get COVID-19 vaccines. The study used…

Larsen, B. J., Ryan, T. J., Greene, S., Hetherington, M. J., Maxwell, R., & Tadelis, S. (2023). Counter-stereotypical messaging and partisan cues: Moving the needle on vaccines in a polarized United States.. Sci Adv, 9(29), eadg9434. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg9434

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Short version of the right-wing authoritarianism scale for the Brazilian context.

Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) is a central predictor of distinct phenomena such as prejudice, voting behavior, corruption, conspiratory beliefs and dietary habits. Given its theoretical and practi…

Echelles attitudes politiques

Vilanova, F., Milfont, T. L., & Costa, A. B. (2023). Short version of the right-wing authoritarianism scale for the Brazilian context.. Psicol Reflex Crit, 36(1), 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41155-023-00260-4

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Placing "trust" in science: The urban-rural divide and Americans' feelings of warmth toward scientists.

Long-standing discussions of the so-called urban-rural divide in the United States have uncovered meaningful differences between urbanites and rural residents, but much of this work has focused on pol…

Krause, N. M. (2023). Placing "trust" in science: The urban-rural divide and Americans' feelings of warmth toward scientists.. Public Underst Sci, 32(5), 596-604. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625221147232

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Information avoidance: Self-image concerns, inattention, and ideology.

We report the results of an experiment on willful information avoidance regarding measures to address Covid-19. In the experiment, participants choose between two options, each associated with a contr…

Biais de confirmation et polarisation politique

Momsen, K., & Ohndorf, M. (2023). Information avoidance: Self-image concerns, inattention, and ideology.. J Econ Behav Organ, 211, 386-400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.04.032

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Changing the incentive structure of social media platforms to halt the spread of misinformation.

The powerful allure of social media platforms has been attributed to the human need for social rewards. Here, we demonstrate that the spread of misinformation on such platforms is facilitated by exist…

Globig, L. K., Holtz, N., & Sharot, T. (2023). Changing the incentive structure of social media platforms to halt the spread of misinformation.. Elife, 12. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.85767

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Interaction matters: Co-viewing facilitates learning from live video streaming for elementary students. ✓

With the development of information technology, co-viewing of live video streaming (LVS) has become a popular online learning method. However, existing studies have found inconsistent results regardin…

Numérique : perception de la présence d'autres individus dans un environnement numérique sans interaction

Liu, C., Wang, L., Pi, Z., & Yang, J. (2023). Interaction matters: Co-viewing facilitates learning from live video streaming for elementary students.. Educ Inf Technol (Dordr), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-023-11920-4

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[Sentiments in the COVID-19 crisis communication of German authorities and independent experts on Twitter : A sentiment analysis for the first year of the pandemic].

BACKGROUND: At the beginning of the COVID‑19 pandemic in Germany, there was great uncertainty among the population and among those responsible for crisis communication. A substantial part of the commu…

Drescher, L. S., Roosen, J., Aue, K., Dressel, K., Schär, W., & Götz, A. (2023). [Sentiments in the COVID-19 crisis communication of German authorities and independent experts on Twitter : A sentiment analysis for the first year of the pandemic].. Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz, 66(6), 689-699. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-023-03699-z

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