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A discourse network analysis of UK newspaper coverage of the "sugar tax" debate before and after the announcement of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.

BACKGROUND: On 6th April 2018, the UK Government introduced the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) as a mechanism designed to address increasing prevalence of obesity and associated ill health by reduci…

Buckton, C. H., Fergie, G., Leifeld, P., & Hilton, S. (2019). A discourse network analysis of UK newspaper coverage of the "sugar tax" debate before and after the announcement of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 490. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6799-9

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Brain stimulation to left prefrontal cortex modulates attentional orienting to gaze cues.

In social interactions, we rely on non-verbal cues like gaze direction to understand the behaviour of others. How we react to these cues is determined by the degree to which we believe that they origi…

Wiese, E., Abubshait, A., Azarian, B., & Blumberg, E. J. (2019). Brain stimulation to left prefrontal cortex modulates attentional orienting to gaze cues.. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 374(1771), 20180430. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0430

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Mapping discourse coalitions in the minimum unit pricing for alcohol debate: a discourse network analysis of UK newspaper coverage.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol was introduced in Scotland on 1 May 2018, and is now on the policy agenda in other devolved administrations and at Westminster. Previous res…

Fergie, G., Leifeld, P., Hawkins, B., & Hilton, S. (2019). Mapping discourse coalitions in the minimum unit pricing for alcohol debate: a discourse network analysis of UK newspaper coverage.. Addiction, 114(4), 741-753. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14514

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Social attraction in video-mediated communication: The role of nonverbal affiliative behavior.

The first aim of this study was to analyze video-mediated communication (VMC), in comparison to face-to-face (FTF) communication, and the effect it has on how communicators express nonverbal affiliati…

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

Croes, E. A. J., Antheunis, M. L., Schouten, A. P., & Krahmer, E. J. (2019). Social attraction in video-mediated communication: The role of nonverbal affiliative behavior.. J Soc Pers Relat, 36(4), 1210-1232. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407518757382

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Vaccine hesitancy and Web 2.0: Exploring how attitudes and beliefs about influenza vaccination are exchanged in online threaded user comments.

The growth of Web 2.0 has been particularly impactful in shaping information assessment in decision-making with regards to vaccination. The aim of the present study was to explore how attitudes and be…

Meyer, S. B., Violette, R., Aggarwal, R., Simeoni, M., MacDougall, H., & Waite, N. (2019). Vaccine hesitancy and Web 2.0: Exploring how attitudes and beliefs about influenza vaccination are exchanged in online threaded user comments.. Vaccine, 37(13), 1769-1774. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.02.028

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A Robust User Sentiment Biterm Topic Mixture Model Based on User Aggregation Strategy to Avoid Data Sparsity for Short Text.

Sentiment analysis is a process of computationally finding the opinions that are expressed in a short text or a feedback by a writer towards a particular topic, product, service. The short piece of re…

K, N., & R, J. (2019). A Robust User Sentiment Biterm Topic Mixture Model Based on User Aggregation Strategy to Avoid Data Sparsity for Short Text.. J Med Syst, 43(4), 93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-019-1225-5

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Political ideology shapes the amplification of the accomplishments of disadvantaged vs. advantaged group members.

Recent years have witnessed an increased public outcry in certain quarters about a perceived lack of attention given to successful members of disadvantaged groups relative to equally meritorious membe…

Kteily, N. S., Rocklage, M. D., McClanahan, K., & Ho, A. K. (2019). Political ideology shapes the amplification of the accomplishments of disadvantaged vs. advantaged group members.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 116(5), 1559-1568. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818545116

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Contagious yawning in virtual reality is affected by actual, but not simulated, social presence.

Contagious yawning occurs in humans and a few other highly social animals following the detection of yawns in others, yet the factors influencing the propagation of this response remain largely unknow…

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

Gallup, A. C., Vasilyev, D., Anderson, N., & Kingstone, A. (2019). Contagious yawning in virtual reality is affected by actual, but not simulated, social presence.. Sci Rep, 9(1), 294. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36570-2

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Ostensive-Cue Sensitive Learning and Exclusive Evaluation of Policies: A Solution for Measuring Contingency of Experiences for Social Developmental Robot.

Joint attention related behaviors (JARBs) are some of the most important and basic cognitive functions for establishing successful communication in human interaction. It is learned gradually during th…

Mahzoon, H., Yoshikawa, Y., & Ishiguro, H. (2019). Ostensive-Cue Sensitive Learning and Exclusive Evaluation of Policies: A Solution for Measuring Contingency of Experiences for Social Developmental Robot.. Front Robot AI, 6, 2. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2019.00002

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Together I Can! Joint Attention Boosts 3- to 4-Year-Olds' Performance in a Verbal False-Belief Test.

Effects of joint attention were addressed on 3- to 4-year-olds' performance in a verbal false-Belief Test (FBT), featuring the experimenter as co-watcher rather than narrator. In two experiments, chil…

Psouni, E., Falck, A., Boström, L., Persson, M., Sidén, L., & Wallin, M. (2019). Together I Can! Joint Attention Boosts 3- to 4-Year-Olds' Performance in a Verbal False-Belief Test.. Child Dev, 90(1), 35-50. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13075

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Peer Presence Effects on Eye Movements and Attentional Performance.

"Social facilitation" refers to the enhancement or impairment of performance engendered by the mere presence of others. It has been demonstrated for a diversity of behaviors. This study assessed wheth…

Tricoche, L., Ferrand-Verdejo, J., Pélisson, D., & Meunier, M. (2019). Peer Presence Effects on Eye Movements and Attentional Performance.. Front Behav Neurosci, 13, 280. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00280

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The Relationship between Social Dominance Orientation and Child Sexual Abuse Credibility Assessment.

Allegations of child sexual abuse (CSA) across various contexts have often been denied or ignored by a multitude of people, including those who do not personally know the alleged perpetrators or victi…

Echelles attitudes politiques

Alcantara, R., Shortway, K. M., & Prempeh, B. A. (2019). The Relationship between Social Dominance Orientation and Child Sexual Abuse Credibility Assessment.. J Child Sex Abus, 28(4), 400-416. https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2019.1592271

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