Atte Oksanen

TL;DR: Examining country variations of COVID-19 mortality in Europe by analyzing social risk factors explaining the spread of the disease, restrictions and control measures, and institutional trust showed that country differences in Europe are major and this will have an impact on how countries will cope with the ongoing crisis in the following months.

TL;DR: The results imply that attitudes toward robots are positive in many fields of work, yet there is a need for validated measures and nationally representative data that would help to further the understanding of social acceptance of robots in work.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate who is exposed to hate material and find support for using routine activity theory to understand exposure at the individual level; however, there is significant cross-national variation in exposure after accounting for individual-level factors.

TL;DR: The authors conducted an empirical comparison of two river samples (Facebook and web-based) and one panel sample (from a major survey research company) with benchmark data grounded in a comprehensive population registry, and concluded that the river samples diverged from the benchmark on demographic variables and yield much higher means on non-demographic variables, even after weighting; they attribute this to topical self-selection.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the extent of exposure to and victimization by online hate material among young social media users and found that exposure to hate material was associated with high online activity, poor attachment to family, and physical offline victimization.