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After mass violence such as the Bondi beach terrorist attack on Sunday, distress does not stop with those directly affected. https://phys.org/news/2025-12-mass-violence-trauma-socially-ways.html Social Sciences Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:33:28 EST news685107181 A study of the Liverpool boycott of The Sun newspaper following the Hillsborough disaster has found that the boycott shaped people's perceptions of political parties and made people more left wing. https://phys.org/news/2025-08-newspaper-boycott-people-uk-city.html Economics & Business Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:17:52 EDT news674126270 In a paper titled "The Politicization of Climate Science: Media Consumption, Perceptions of Science and Scientists, and Support for Policy," published May 26, 2024, in the Journal of Health Communication, researchers probed the associations between media exposure and science-consistent beliefs about climate change and the threat it posed to the respondent. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-association-media-diet-science-beliefs.html Social Sciences Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:02:03 EDT news637254121 French bulldogs. U.S. dog owners. C'est l'amour. https://phys.org/news/2024-03-french-bulldogs-popular-fans-happy.html Plants & Animals Wed, 20 Mar 2024 10:43:23 EDT news630150198 The number of homicides in Italy today is one-third of those 20 years ago, yet Italians believe they have increased by 26.6%, with a 17.3% rise in mafia-related murders. Moreover, when exposed to images of mafia violence from newspapers, Italians do not tend to lose trust in the state, as studies in other countries would suggest. Instead, they tend to have more trust in institutions and offer a more positive judgment of their quality and performance. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-italian-reveals-exposure-images-mafia.html Social Sciences Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:46:03 EST news625333562 A team of Penn State researchers investigated how seeing frightening news about climate change day after day may shape the way people feel about the phenomenon and how willing they are to take action to address it. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-doom-and-gloom-climate-news-audiences.html Social Sciences Fri, 07 Jul 2023 12:59:16 EDT news607953553 During 2020, the use of terms like the "China virus" by public officials and in the media negatively connected COVID-19 to China, where the virus originated, causing a detrimental impact. New research from scholars of the hospitality industry at Penn State and the University of Houston found that this type of virus naming contributed to hostility toward and boycotting of Chinese restaurants and other Asian-related businesses. https://phys.org/news/2022-11-word-choice-media-exposure-affected.html Social Sciences Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:45:03 EST news587749441 The first-ever detailed study of climate anxiety among the UK adult population suggests that whilst rates are currently low, people's fears about the future of the planet might be an important trigger for action when it comes to adapting our high-carbon lifestyles to become more environmentally friendly. https://phys.org/news/2022-09-climate-anxiety-important-driver-action.html Environment Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:46:21 EDT news581345178 About a year ago, many of us were in lockdown. State premiers fronted the media every day to reveal how many people had tested positive for COVID and how many people had died. https://phys.org/news/2022-06-covid-deaths-mentioned-media-nature.html Social Sciences Thu, 23 Jun 2022 08:09:18 EDT news575190552 European listed companies in the energy and mining sector provide, to say the least, sparse information on future environmental costs in their annual reports. Researchers believe that stricter guidelines are required as the lack of information may lead to underestimation of environmental liabilities, resulting in that future generations may have to bear the burden of cleanup costs. https://phys.org/news/2021-03-insufficient-financial-underestimation-environmental-liabilities.html Mathematics Thu, 25 Mar 2021 09:03:54 EDT news535881832 "Kamala Harris is not a natural-born American citizen." False. "Joe Biden's family has illegal business ties with China." False. Believe it or not, large segments of the population are aware of these kinds of unsupported narratives related to the fall 2020 election and believe that at least some of these narratives are true, according to the first in a new series of reports by Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media, also known as OSoMe. https://phys.org/news/2020-09-americans-false-election-narratives-survey.html Political science Thu, 17 Sep 2020 08:20:01 EDT news519548279 New research from the Race and Opportunity Lab in the Center for Social Development sheds light on youths' reactions to social media videos showing violence in their communities. https://phys.org/news/2020-05-black-male-youth-reactions-social.html Social Sciences Fri, 29 May 2020 09:10:05 EDT news509961948 When people see smoke on the horizon, what do they do? Besides (hopefully) calling fire authorities, they post to social media, of course. https://phys.org/news/2017-08-smokeand-social-media.html Earth Sciences Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:02:20 EDT news420908533 The city of Boston endured one of the worst terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in April of 2013, when two pressure-cooker bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. While emergency workers responded to the chaos and law enforcement agencies began a manhunt for the perpetrators, Americans fixed their attention to television screens, Internet news sites and forums, and Twitter, Facebook and other social media. https://phys.org/news/2015-05-media-exposure-prior-tragedies-sensitize.html Social Sciences Fri, 22 May 2015 07:34:07 EDT news351498833 Fearful flyers seek flight attributes that may be primarily reassuring, such as schedule, aircraft size and carrier origin, but have little effect on the low, actual risk according to a study published in the Journal of Travel Research. https://phys.org/news/2012-10-flyers-flight.html Economics & Business Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:51:02 EDT news269524242 Listeners can learn new vocabulary through hip-hop music, even though the lyrics may be difficult to understand, according to a study published in the Dec. 21 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. https://phys.org/news/2011-12-language-hip-hop-music.html Social Sciences Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:31:36 EST news243711084 Exposure to news media has long been thought to help create a more informed and politically educated citizenry, but a new University of Georgia study finds that media exposure did little to correct a significant misperception during the most recent presidential campaign. https://phys.org/news/2010-03-explores-belief-rumor-obama-muslim.html Social Sciences Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:15:50 EST news187442140