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Fear of Losing Status, Not Economic Hardship, Drove Voters in 2016 Presidential Election

Socially dominant groups supported the candidate who most emphasized reestablishing status hierarchies of the past.

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False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine

However, people who believe in the power of science are more likely to use vaccines.

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Crisis or Self-Correction: Rethinking How the Media Cover Science

Science communicators should more accurately convey its investigatory nature and the self-correction process without legitimizing a faulty narrative.

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Social Media Can Complement Surveys on Public Health Issues

A new study suggests that social media conversations can be used to monitor and predict people’s attitudes and knowledge about Zika.

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Probabilistic Forecasting Can Mislead Voters About Certainty of Election Outcomes

In 2016, probabilistic forecasts left voters thinking the election was far less competitive than it actually was.

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APPC Visiting Scholar David Zarefsky Writing Book on Johnson Vietnam Speech

The speech described steps to limit the Vietnam War and announced that Johnson would not seek reelection.

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Lokman Tsui (Ph.D. '10) Interviews Oscar Gandy on Personal Data Protection, Privacy, and Surveillance

Gandy studies privacy and surveillance and is the author of The Panoptic Sort.

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Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Releases CARGC Paper 7

Ali argues that understanding rural communication is essential to analyzing the dynamics of our globalized world.

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Exposing Hypocrisy Can Be Effective in Reducing Collective Blame of Muslims for Individual Acts of Violence

A new study evaluated real-world video clips shared on social media to determine which were most effective.