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A print-style illustration showing a vast murmuration of birds swirling in looping, overlapping spirals across a gradient of navy blue, coral orange, and cream. Thousands of small cream, golden, and dark silhouettes flow in shifting directions with no fixed path, visually representing societal change as continual, nonlinear dynamic social evolution rather than linear progress or regress, emerging from interacting political, cultural, and social systems.

Beyond progress vs. regress: Societal change as dynamic social evolution

By Colin Wayne Leach, Shaunette T. Ferguson, & Betselot Biruck Wondimu

A photo-style sepia illustration showing a reimagined Asch conformity experiment: seven people in 1950s suits sit in a row at a long wooden table, all pointing in unison toward a humanoid robot with glowing eyes at the end. A hand holds up a card with three vertical lines of differing lengths, symbolizing social pressure on AI agents to conform to group opinions in multimodal language model perceptual tasks.

Prompt-mediated perceptual conformity in multimodal language models follows Social Impact Theory

By Alessandro Bellina, Giordano De Marzo, & David Garcia

A watercolor illustration showing a silhouetted figure seated on a stool, facing a glowing rectangular screen in a dark room. A thin floor lamp casts pale light on the left, while a vertical streak of rust-red and black wash bleeds down beside the screen against deep blue-gray tones. The scene evokes solitary online exposure to jihadi video propaganda, illustrating how TTP media may shape viewers' motivation and perceived capacity to act.

A Behavior-Change model of jihadi media: The Information-Motivation-Behavioral skills framework and TTP video propaganda

By Sachal Jacob, Weeda Mehran, Jiaxin Tong, & Anthony Lemieux

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A print-style illustration showing a vast murmuration of birds swirling in looping, overlapping spirals across a gradient of navy blue, coral orange, and cream. Thousands of small cream, golden, and dark silhouettes flow in shifting directions with no fixed path, visually representing societal change as continual, nonlinear dynamic social evolution rather than linear progress or regress, emerging from interacting political, cultural, and social systems.

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Beyond progress vs. regress: Societal change as dynamic social evolution

By Colin Wayne Leach, Shaunette T. Ferguson, & Betselot Biruck Wondimu

November 4, 2026

$A mixed-media collage portrait showing a faceless human figure constructed from torn paper fragments in muted tones of beige, gray, blue, and brown. The fractured, layered composition assembles disparate scraps into a single ambiguous form, visually evoking the article's theme of fragmented, patchwork ideologies and the conceptual incoherence behind "salad bar" extremism, where contradictory pieces combine into one unstable identity.$

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Why the ‘salad bar of ideologies’ does not help us understand contemporary violent extremism

By John Horgan & Morgan Shayler

June 16, 2026 (Cited by: 7)

Decolonization, multiculturalism and acculturation

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Re-imagining multiculturalism: Small steps towards indigenizing acculturation science

By Colleen Ward, Tia Neha, & Tyler Ritchie

May 10, 2025 (Cited by: 2)

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Resolving conflicting findings in misinformation research: A methodological perspective

By M. Asher Lawson & Hemant Kakkar

December 6, 2024 (Cited by: 2)

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The neglected role of social comparisons in acculturation: Considering the integration paradox

By Maykel Verkuyten

December 5, 2024 (Cited by: 2)

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Causal inference in misinformation and conspiracy research

By Li Qian Tay, Mark Hurlstone, Yangxueqing Jiang, Michael J. Platow, Tim Kurz, & Ullrich K. H. Ecker

August 30, 2024 (Cited by: 2)

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Beyond the headlines: On the efficacy and effectiveness of misinformation interventions

By Jon Roozenbeek, Miriam Remshard, & Yara Kyrychenko

July 27, 2024 (Cited by: 28)