Tweeting Is Believing? Understanding Microblog Credibility Perceptions
2012 paper from Microsoft Research on assessing the credibility of tweets.
ethics
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Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior
2012 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on wealth levels and unethical behavior.
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Misinformation and fact-checking: Research findings from social science
2012 New America Foundation report on cognitive and psychological phenomena that make the task of journalistic corrections difficult.
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Public participation, procedural fairness and local governance
2012 study from the University of Nebraska examines how outreach efforts by local authorities can increase satisfaction with government and use of tax dollars.
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Quantifying global transfers of copyrighted content using BitTorrent
2011 study from Carnegie-Mellon University on BitTorrent online downloads of copyrighted material.
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Global senior executives’ perceptions of the role of the firm in society
2011 study in the Socio-Economic Review on the attitudes of senior executives about corporate social responsibility.
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Who offers tax-based business development incentives?
2011 paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research on the conditions that make special municipal tax deals likely and their association with political corruption.
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Influence of corporate campaign contributions in government contract award decisions
2011 study from St. Louis University on the success of corporations in securing government contracts through campaign donations.
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Perceptions of persons in the persistent vegetative state
2011 study in the journal Cognition measuring the public’s general perceptions of patients living in a persistent vegetative state.
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Bribes, lobbying and development
2011 study in the American Political Science Review on how cycles of bribery can trap developing countries in corruption.
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