The influence of gender, propaganda, and treatment methods was studied in relation to default behaviour of patients with sexually transmitted diseases. The overall default rate of men and women was similar, but a larger proportion of men defaulted after the initial visit, while the biggest fall-out in women was after the second attendance at the clinic. The institution of a propaganda campaign ...

ABSTRACT Over the last decade, strategic attacks on news media institutions and journalists have become an increasingly common feature of populist political communication. The purpose this article is to identify various strategies that politicians use criticise illuminate how circulation these vary between party types. builds a content analysis Twitter feeds all members parliament with active a...

Sociological polls and other sources, as well electoral statistics, show that Soviet power in 1918– 1989 met the main criteria for legitimacy. In 1918–1929, majority of voters, 1931–1989 over 83 % electorate, were loyal to regime, trusted communists general course current policy, satisfied with status ordinary builders socialism, believed socialist project. Official information on turnout votin...

Wilhelm Kempf Towards an Integration of Quantitative and Qualitative Content Analysis in Propaganda Research 1. Reconstruction of socio-psychological context as a methodological framework Within the framework of recent studies on U.S. propaganda and psychological warfare during the Contra War in Nicaragua (Kempf, 1990), a communication model was developed according to which it is not so much th...

The mass media opposed Donald Trump for his victory as president in the 2016 U.S election because he was considered involved exploiting voters’ personal data. This issue narrated “The Great Hack” movie. study attempted to scrutinize propaganda message potential through linguistic and non-linguistic (visual) components that movie investigate how both types of interplayed create intended message....

The recent debate started by David Healy [1] on the pages of this journal and further fueled by letters published in this issue [2–4] sparks again the decade-old debate ‘as to whether selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) can trigger suicidality in vulnerable individuals’ [1]. The article by Healy [1] is carefully and elegantly written, and avoids definite statements, however the effe...

Brazil has introduced a referendum regarding the prohibition of firearm commerce and propaganda arguments have invoked socially and personally driven issues in the promotion of voting in favor of and against firearm control, respectively. Here, we used different techniques to study the brain activity associated with a voter’s perception of the truthfulness of these arguments and their influence...