Emerging evidence in health communication and psychology suggests that a) exposure to
specific persuasive health messages can have unintended effects on the mental well-being …

The COVID crisis of the past three years has greatly impacted stakeholder relationships
between scientists, health providers, policy makers, pharmaceutical industry employees …

Has there been an inflation in crisis coverage in newspapers over the last centuries, and if
so, what structural factors drive this change? We utilize computational text analyses along …

While journalism scholarship has long been exploring how journalistic role performance
(“JRP” thereafter) varies in different scenarios, seldom have studies captured how JRP …

The perception of reality could matter more than reality itself when it comes to disease
outbreaks. News media are important sources of information during global disease …

This article presents a discursive analysis of crisis communication strategies employed by
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic …

Introduction We investigate the relationship between bias, that is, cognitive distortions about
the severity of infectious disease and social well-being. Materials and Methods First, we …

Confusion, fear and mixed sentiments prevail in the minds of people towards what is
arguably one of the most important of dynamics of modern human society: Artificial …

We investigate the relationship between bias about infectious disease and well-being. First,
we empirically establish the existence and the causes of bias, specifically during the COVID …

Imagination is more important than experiencing it first-hand: The Influence of Imaginative
Enactment on Sense of Security Page 1 Imagination is more important than experiencing it …