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When a 12.86% mortality is more dangerous than 24.14%: implications for risk communication

June 29, 2025 engeladmin Student Database

Author: Yamagishi, Kimihiko Description: Participants assessed the riskiness of 11 well-known causes of death. Each participant was presented with an estimation of the number of deaths in the population due to that particular cause. The estimates were obtained from a previous study of naive participants’ intuitive estimations. For instance, based on the result of the previous study, the number of deaths due to cancer was presented as: ‘2,414 out of 10,000’, ‘1,286 out of 10,000’, ‘24.14 out of 100’ and ‘12.86 out of 100’. The estimates of deaths were presented…

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The benefit of gestures during communication: evidence from hearing and hearing-impaired individuals

May 4, 2021 engeladmin Student Database

Author: Obermeier, C.; Dolk, T.; Gunter, T.C. Description: There is no doubt that gestures are communicative and can be integrated online with speech. Little is known, however, about the nature of this process, for example, its automaticity and how our own communicative abilities and also our environment influence the integration of gesture and speech. In two Event Related Potential (ERP) experiments, the effects of gestures during speech comprehension were explored. In both experiments, participants performed a shallow task thereby avoiding explicit gesture-speech integration. In the first experiment, participants with normal…

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The disinformation order: Disruptive communication and the decline of democratic institutions

November 23, 2020 engeladmin Featured Database

Author: Bennett, W. L. & Livingston, S. Description: Many democratic nations are experiencing increased levels of false information circulating through social media and political websites that mimic journalism formats. In many cases, this disinformation is associated with the efforts of movements and parties on the radical right to mobilize supporters against centre parties and the mainstream press that carries their messages. The spread of disinformation can be traced to growing legitimacy problems in many democracies. Declining citizen confidence in institutions undermines the credibility of official information in the news and…

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