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Mark Clark, Jo McGuffin, Gordon Greenhill, Jeremy Dys

Rumour Has It: Rumour Adoption in Conflict-Affected Areas Rumours run rife in conflict areas, and have played a key role in igniting episodes of intense violence, from ethnic riots to genocide. Under what conditions are politically salient rumours treated as truth? When will unverified pieces of information be widely adopted, and when will they be dismissed as false? This paper presents a new theoretical framework, as well as the first empirical analysis of these questions, using original survey data gathered in insurgency-affected areas of Southern Thailand and the Philippines. We find wide variation in rumour adoption across the conflict areas, and argue that variation is driven by the rumour’s fit within the receiver’s worldview, and its connection to the receiver’s threat perception. Consistent with psychological research, we find strong evidence that patterns of repeated exposure greatly increase rumour acceptance. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we find no evidence that education, income, or gender determine individual receptivity to rumours. The broader implications and further applications of our theory and findings to Eastern Europe, North Africa and southern Europe and South Asia will also be discussed. A public lecture by Professor Kelly Greenhill (Tufts/ Harvard) and Dr. Ben Oppenheim (Resident Fellow, Stanford University Center on International Conflict and Negotiation Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar, New York University Center on International Cooperation)

Ranking 5 consumer finance stocks. Join Motley Fool analysts Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson as they look at the latest from the world of Bitcoin, Brian Moynihan’s journey, and take a listener’s question about taxable trading accounts.

 

A woman stares at the falling snow out of her cushy Soho office. An English gentleman bids his unsuspecting wife adieu for what becomes a 20-year absence. Episode 6 of OTI - Wakefield - is inspired by Hawthorne's story of the same name, exploring the urban soul's urge to leave the hubbub and disappear. Hosted by Matt Dellapina, guests include David Ryan Smith, OBIE Winner Birgit Huppuch, Paul Niebanck, Sofia Alvarez, Susan Greenhill, Samuel Stricklen, Carmen Cabrera, Mat Smart, Phil Pickens, Dave Paarlberg, and Ashley Grombol.

John Engelhardt will host three guests this week. Newly appointed Editorial Director at the Daily Racing Form to lead its national editorial operation based in New York, Mark Simon will be our first guest. He will tell us a little about his new responsibilities and what plans he has for the publication. Peviously the founding editor of Thoroughbred Times, he was hired by Dick Broadbent, owner of Bloodstock Research, at the time to start the publication. Under his direction the Thoroughbred Times was published weekly for 27 years, until its demise. Our second guest Marty McGee has been covering the Kentucky and Florida circuits for the Daily Racing Form since 1992. He will give us an inside track on the main contenders for this year's Kentucky Derby and handicap some of this week-end's stakes races - the Spiral and Bourbonette Stakes from Turfway Park and the Sunland Park Derby from Sunland Park. Our third guest will be trainer Jeff Greenhill. He is the hometown hope with multiple stakes winner 'Mac the Man' in the Spiral Stakes.

Kathryn Greenhill (Librarian Matters blog) provides her tips on blogging and blog fodder e.g. ideas for blog posts. Kathryn is a well known blogger who provides excellent blogging tips and this is her presentation from Perth PodCamp.