Anna Di Natale, Max Pellert, David Garcia Affective Science (2021) Colexification is a linguistic phenomenon that occurs when multiple concepts are expressed in a language with the same word. Colexification patterns are frequently used to estimate the meaning similarity between words, but the hypothesis that these are related is still missing direct empirical validation at …
Simon Schweighofer, Frank Schweitzer, David Garcia Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 23 (3) 5 (2020) Polarization is threatening the stability of democratic societies. Until now, polarization research has focused on opinion extremeness, overlooking the correlation between different policy issues. In this paper, we explain the emergence of hyperpolarization, i.e., the combination of extremeness and …
David Garcia, Victor Galaz, Stefan Daume The Lancet, Vol. 394, Issue 10215 (2019) Food production, climate change, and human health are intrinsically related. The EAT–Lancet Commission is one of the first attempts to summarise and communicate the best available science on what constitutes a healthy diet within environmental targets. The launch of the report was …
David Garcia, Bernard Rimé Psychological Science, 30(4), 2019 After collective traumas such as natural disasters and terrorist attacks, members of concerned communities experience intense emotions and talk profusely about them. Although these exchanges resemble simple emotional venting, Durkheim’s theory of collective effervescence postulates that these collective emotions lead to higher levels of solidarity in the …