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Faking And Conspiring About Covid-19: A Discursive Approach, Rosa Scardigno, Alessia Paparella, Francesca D'Errico
Faking And Conspiring About Covid-19: A Discursive Approach, Rosa Scardigno, Alessia Paparella, Francesca D'Errico
The Qualitative Report
In the more general climate of post-truth - a social trend reflecting a disregard for reliable ways of knowing what is true, mostly acted through massive use of misinformation and rhetoric calling for emotions - an alarming “infodemic” accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic, affecting healthy attitudes and behaviors and further lessening trust in science, institutions, and traditional media. Its two main representative items, fake and conspiracy news, have been widely analyzed in psycho-social research, even if scholars mostly acknowledged the cognitive and social dimensions of those items and devoted less attention to their discursive construction. In addition, these works did not …
Gender Ambiguity In Voice-Based Assistants: Gender Perception And Influences Of Context, Sandra Mooshammer, Katrin Etzrodt
Gender Ambiguity In Voice-Based Assistants: Gender Perception And Influences Of Context, Sandra Mooshammer, Katrin Etzrodt
Human-Machine Communication
Recently emerging synthetic acoustically gender-ambiguous voices could contribute to dissolving the still prevailing genderism. Yet, are we indeed perceiving these voices as “unassignable”? Or are we trying to assimilate them into existing genders? To investigate the perceived ambiguity, we conducted an explorative 3 (male, female, ambiguous voice) × 3 (male, female, ambiguous topic) experiment. We found that, although participants perceived the gender-ambiguous voice as ambiguous, they used a profoundly wide range of the scale, indicating tendencies toward a gender. We uncovered a mild dissolve of gender roles. Neither the listener’s gender nor the personal gender stereotypes impacted the perception. However, …
Acting Is Repetition, Job Barnett
Acting Is Repetition, Job Barnett
The STEAM Journal
A short discussion of repetition in acting.
Threat And Threatening Language: Public Discourse On Iraq, Ibpp Editor
Threat And Threatening Language: Public Discourse On Iraq, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article explores the relationship of language, the construction of threat, and the constructor’s response to that which is constructed.
Trends. Logic Limitations And Missile Defense, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Logic Limitations And Missile Defense, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses the limitations of logic in truth-finding using public discourse on national missile defense as an example.
Responding To Innuendo: A Case From The Ivory Coast, Ibpp Editor
Responding To Innuendo: A Case From The Ivory Coast, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article describes some of the psychological Issues involved in successfully responding to political innuendo.