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Lexicon-based sentiment analysis to detect opinions and attitude towards COVID-19 vaccines on Twitter in Italy.

The paper proposes a methodology based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Sentiment Analysis (SA) to get insights into sentiments and opinions toward COVID-19 vaccination in Italy. The studied d…

Catelli, R., Pelosi, S., Comito, C., Pizzuti, C., & Esposito, M. (2023). Lexicon-based sentiment analysis to detect opinions and attitude towards COVID-19 vaccines on Twitter in Italy.. Comput Biol Med, 158, 106876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.106876

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Fallibility Salience Increases Intellectual Humility: Implications for People's Willingness to Investigate Political Misinformation.

The spread of online political misinformation has ramifications for political polarization, trust in political systems, and the functioning of democracy. In this article, we advance findings on invest…

Koetke, J., Schumann, K., Porter, T., & Smilo-Morgan, I. (2023). Fallibility Salience Increases Intellectual Humility: Implications for People's Willingness to Investigate Political Misinformation.. Pers Soc Psychol Bull, 49(5), 806-820. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221080979

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The Polarizing Impact of Political Disinformation and Hate Speech: A Cross-country Configural Narrative.

Information and communication technologies hold immense potential to enhance our lives and societal well-being. However, digital spaces have also emerged as a fertile ground for fake news campaigns an…

Vasist, P. N., Chatterjee, D., & Krishnan, S. (2023). The Polarizing Impact of Political Disinformation and Hate Speech: A Cross-country Configural Narrative.. Inf Syst Front, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-023-10390-w

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Did the public attribute the Flint Water Crisis to racism as it was happening? Text analysis of Twitter data to examine causal attributions to racism during a public health crisis.

The Flint Water Crisis (FWC) was an avoidable public health disaster that has profoundly affected the city's residents, a majority of whom are Black. Although many scholars and journalists have called…

Bisgin, N., Bisgin, H., Hummel, D., Zelner, J., & Needham, B. L. (2023). Did the public attribute the Flint Water Crisis to racism as it was happening? Text analysis of Twitter data to examine causal attributions to racism during a public health crisis.. J Comput Soc Sci, 6(1), 165-190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-022-00192-6

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Moralization and extremism robustly amplify myside sharing.

We explored whether moralization and attitude extremity may amplify a preference to share politically congruent ("myside") partisan news and what types of targeted interventions may reduce this tenden…

Marie, A., Altay, S., & Strickland, B. (2023). Moralization and extremism robustly amplify myside sharing.. PNAS Nexus, 2(4), pgad078. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad078

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Reduced eye gaze during facial emotion recognition in chronic depression: Effects of intranasal oxytocin.

Chronic depression disorders (CDD) are characterized by impaired social cognitive functioning. Visual attention during social perception is altered in clinical depression and is known to be sensitive …

Vehlen, A., Kellner, A., Normann, C., Heinrichs, M., & Domes, G. (2023). Reduced eye gaze during facial emotion recognition in chronic depression: Effects of intranasal oxytocin.. J Psychiatr Res, 159, 50-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2023.01.016

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Pandemics and Politics: Analyzing the politicization and polarization of pandemic-related reporting.

The COVID-19 pandemic generated tremendous journalistic attention, and occurred during a period of increasing politicization and polarization in America's news media. This study considers the intersec…

Schmidt, H. (2023). Pandemics and Politics: Analyzing the politicization and polarization of pandemic-related reporting.. Newsp Res J, 44(1), 26-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/07395329221095850

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Tribalism and tribulations: The social costs of not sharing fake news.

Fake news can foster political polarization, foment division between groups, and encourage malicious behavior. Misinformation has cast doubt on the integrity of democratic elections, downplayed the se…

Lawson, M. A., Anand, S., & Kakkar, H. (2023). Tribalism and tribulations: The social costs of not sharing fake news.. J Exp Psychol Gen, 152(3), 611-631. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001374

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Political views, health literacy, and COVID-19 beliefs and behaviors: A moderated mediation model.

RATIONALE: Mitigating the spread of COVID-19 requires that people understand the need for and engage in protective behaviors. Given the complexity and rapid progression of media information about the …

Cameron, L. D., Lawler, S., Robbins-Hill, A., Toor, I., & Brown, P. M. (2023). Political views, health literacy, and COVID-19 beliefs and behaviors: A moderated mediation model.. Soc Sci Med, 320, 115672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115672

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Social Isolation Affects the Mimicry Response in the Use of Smartphones : An Ethological Experiment during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Humans are social animals that rely on different ways to interact with each other. The COVID-19 pandemic strongly changed our communication strategies. Because of the importance of direct contact for …

Maglieri, V., Zanoli, A., Giunchi, D., & Palagi, E. (2023). Social Isolation Affects the Mimicry Response in the Use of Smartphones : An Ethological Experiment during the COVID-19 Pandemic.. Hum Nat, 34(1), 88-102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-023-09443-5

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Development and validation of a robot social presence measurement dimension scale.

Robots that can exhibit human-like behaviour, build social relationships with humans, and carry out social interaction that can be considered to have a social presence. Measuring the social presence o…

Chen, N., Liu, X., Zhai, Y., & Hu, X. (2023). Development and validation of a robot social presence measurement dimension scale.. Sci Rep, 13(1), 2911. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28817-4

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The political polarization of COVID-19 treatments among physicians and laypeople in the United States.

In the United States, liberals and conservatives disagree about facts. To what extent does expertise attenuate these disagreements? To study this question, we compare the polarization of beliefs about…

Levin, J. M., Bukowski, L. A., Minson, J. A., & Kahn, J. M. (2023). The political polarization of COVID-19 treatments among physicians and laypeople in the United States.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 120(7), e2216179120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2216179120

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