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cord-271975-iygxrlxg	Maher, Paul J.	Mapping public health responses with attitude networks: the emergence of opinion‐based groups in the UK’s early COVID‐19 response phase	2020-07-04		.txt	text/plain	4273	249	51	However, in times of rapid societal change, novel opinion-based groups can emerge and provide a new basis for partisan identification and divergent collective behaviour. However, as previously seen during the Brexit debate in the United Kingdom, new 'opinion-based groups' (McGarty, Bliuc, Thomas, & Bongiorno, 2009) can emerge from social processes without clear relations to prior groups or socio-political structures. Using a novel network-based method, we explore whether opposing attitude-based clusters emerge over time and investigate whether factional attitude alignment becomes a basis for divergence in public health behaviour. In two complimentary studies, we investigate (i) the emergence of factional alignment in health attitudes during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, (ii) consequences for maintaining public health behaviour, and (iii) the contribution of pre-existing social categories. These distinct attitudebased factions differed in behavioural compliance, suggesting that trust in science and health officials is a core basis for emerging COVID-19 opinion-based groups.	./cache/cord-271975-iygxrlxg.txt	./txt/cord-271975-iygxrlxg.txt