…controllable components, such as individual choice, or uncontrollable components, such as systematic forces in the environment. Here we employ motivated reasoning and attribution theory to understand causal attributions to the…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email The rise of mobile technology and increased access to explicit content on the Internet have conspired to create an environment in which teens are sharing…
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…was moderated by evaluations of the EU polity in the general information environment, conflict framing more effectively mobilized voters in countries where the EU was evaluated more positively.” “Seeing…
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…Gottfried note that in a “transformed media environment” — where traditional news has ceded ground to non-mainstream media sources — the televised debates continued to play a unique role, as they…
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…willing to express their opinions.” For a sense of how these dynamics play out in an online environment, see a related 2012 study, “The Spiral of Silence and the Internet,”…
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…to the gender wage gap. “State Policies and Gender Earnings Inequality: A Multilevel Analysis of 50 U.S. States Based on U.S. Census 2000 Data” looked at institutional environments and social…
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…by the government’s embrace of networked authoritarianism as a political strategy. Young Azerbaijanis, having grown up in a chaotic post-Soviet environment, value stability and are averse to political risks. The…
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…demand appears to be the critical factor.” In addition, they note, the “findings suggest the need to develop interventions to improve psychosocial characteristics of the work environment since this may…
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…if this was facilitated by an environment that condones smoking — or by a single friend who smokes. A 2012 study from the University of Southern California and the University…
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…natural environment and reduced stigma to leverage recovery. Such programs can be divided into different phases: crisis intervention, early intervention, and selective interventions for longer-term recovery. Although best practices for…
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