Are you a news avoider? 🚫📰📺📻🚫You're not alone. A new study shows that most Kiwis avoid the news at least some of the time. Was a pleasure to work on this research with Alex Beattie and Richard Arnold. theconversation.com/news-blues-s...
New Zealand’s news avoidance rates are higher than in any other surveyed country. Mood, political orientation and perceptions of sensationalism or bias all play a role.
A small number of conflict entrepreneurs drive most of the problems on social media. I did an interview with @RNZ about how to replace doom scrolling with a better experience online: www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Doomscrolling belongs right up there with smoking, biting your nails or procrastinating; it's an addictive habit that's hard to break.
Once upon a time, a group of researchers went on a journey, a journey to track down a near-mythical creature: the 'non-persuasive' story. New registered report in Royal Society Open Science doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
More people die in winter than at other times of the year. However, the size of this winter ‘bump’ in deaths in Aotearoa has been shrinking since the 1920s - New study. @lucytelbar.bsky.socialwww.phcc.org.nz/briefing/sur...
The number of excess winter deaths in Aotearoa has fallen since the 1920s according to a new study. However, improving housing standards and reducing seasonal respiratory infections could bring the nu...
We suggest that people don't fall into conspiracy theory rabbit holes, but some slide into rabbit warrens. Also, no evidence of an increase in beliefs over time, on average. @matthewmatix.bsky.social@lingtax.bsky.social@scicomguy.bsky.social@srhastraea.bsky.social Mollie Hawson &Eddie Clarke
A new study has found no evidence that people’s beliefs in conspiracy theories increase over time. They can even change their minds – just not that often.