Too Far to Care? Measuring Public Attention and Fear for Ebola Using Twitter

“Pandemic Public Health Paradox”: Time Series Analysis of the 2009/10 Influenza A / H1N1 Epidemiology, Media Attention, Risk Perception and Public Reactions in 5 European Countries

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Disease Detection or Public Opinion Reflection? Content Analysis of Tweets, Other Social Media, and Online Newspapers During the Measles Outbreak in the Netherlands in 2013

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The effects of psychological distance on abstraction: Two meta-analyses.

(2015) Courtney K. Soderberg et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Considering local adaptation increases willingness to mitigate

(2014) Laurel Evans et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

The Use of Twitter to Track Levels of Disease Activity and Public Concern in the U.S. during the Influenza A H1N1 Pandemic

(2011) Alessio Signorini et al.   PLoS One

The Psychological Distance of Climate Change

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Pandemics in the Age of Twitter: Content Analysis of Tweets during the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak

(2010) Cynthia Chew et al.   PLoS One

Construal-level theory of psychological distance.

(2010) Yaacov Trope et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW

The Psychology of Transcending the Here and Now

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