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Social communication

Relational intelligence in AI chatbots: Examining the trust–engagement-emotion–social presence model using PLS-SEM and fsQCA

Yang Wang, Asif Ali Safeer, Yewang Zhou

published 14 Aug 2026

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Disciplining the digital public: Platform mechanisms and the dynamics of emotional polarization

Changrong Lu, Dan Qin, Jiali Huang, Bing Pang

published 13 Aug 2026

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Spatial patterns of foreign agricultural land holdings near U.S. military interest points

Valerie Kilders, Anam Ali, Austin Berenda, Michael Smith, Nicole Olynk Widmar, Ronald F. Turco

published 12 Aug 2026

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From cultural awareness to safety in Canadian speech‑language pathology practice: A scoping review protocol

Mariam Komeili, Jessi Robinson, Hannah Akrigg

published 10 Aug 2026

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Social marketing intervention for social media-related adolescent risk behaviours in North India: A multi-city cluster RCT protocol

Tanvi Kiran, Ashrajdeep Singh, Divya Sharma, Aseem Mehra, Lakshay Jaglan, Tamanna Kumari, Pulak Syal, Madhu Gupta, Kapil Goel, Arun Kumar Aggarwal

published 07 Aug 2026

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Real-time emotional dynamics and public discourse on Sina Weibo following the first imported mpox case in mainland China: A sentiment analysis study

Zhanyan Li, Yi Li, Ke Li, Zhuoxiao Li, Chunbei Zhou, Hong Xiao

published 07 Aug 2026

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Endorsing narratives of white replacement: Elite discourse, public attention, and extremist mobilization

Jack Gabriel Risien Wippell, Laura Dugan

published 05 Aug 2026

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Exploring the contagion routes of digital emotion on health topics: A multidimensional configuration analysis pre-post rumor refutation

Huawei Zhi, Yan Qiao

published 05 Aug 2026

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Discourse, sentiment, and resonance of workplace burnout on Chinese social media: A computational analysis

Mengjiao Yin, Yingying Xia

published 05 Aug 2026

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Barriers to accessing paediatric critical care and surgery: A qualitative study

Catherine El Zerbi, Emer Cullen, Elaine Bidmead, Helena-Ulrike Marambio, Rachel Agbeko, Julie Bloomfield, Judith Rankin

published 04 Aug 2026

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Statistical misreasoning in online content about vaccines: Implications and recommendations for addressing disinformation

Michal Ordak

published 03 Aug 2026

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Contrastive learning with mutual information enhancement and negative sample augmentation combined with KAN for text clustering

Yuanmin Zhang, Hao Li, Chunzhi Xie, Yong Huang, Zhenyi Wu, Yanjun Li

published 30 Jul 2026

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Motivations and segmentation of instagram users as a social network site: Their sociodemographic profiles, satisfaction and loyalty

Mauricio Carvache-Franco, Ana Beatriz Hernández-Lara, Orly Carvache-Franco, Wilmer Carvache-Franco

published 30 Jul 2026

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