?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Public+policy%2C+institutional+cognition%2C+and+the+geographic+diffusion+of+multiple-drug-resistant+HIV+in+the+United+States&rft.creator=Wallace%2C+Rodrick&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.description=Public+policy+and+economic+practice%2C+both+quintessential+expressions+of+institutional+cognition%2C+create+an+opportunity+structure+constituting+a+tunable%2C+highly+patterned%2C+'nonwhite+noise'+in+a+generalized+epidemiological+stochastic+resonance+which+can+efficiently+amplify+unhealthy+conditions+within+marginalized+populations+to+evoke+infectious+disease+outbreaks.+This+is+particularly+true+for+infections+carried+by+socially-generated+'risk+behaviors'.+A+number+of+local+epidemics+originating+in+such+keystone+communities+may+subsequently+undergo+a+structure-driven+phase+transition+to+become+a+coherent+pandemic%2C+a+spreading+plague+which+can+entrain+more+affluent+populations+into+the+disease+ecology+of+marginalization.++Here+we+apply+this+perspective%2C+which+is+formally+homologous+to+recent+theoretical+developments+in+cognitive+psychology%2C+to+the+forthcoming+social+and+geographic+diffusion+of+multiple+drug+resistant+(MDR)+HIV+from+current+AIDS+epicenters+to+the+rest+of+the+United+States.&rft.date=2006-04&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4854%2F1%2FEpires15.pdf&rft.identifier=++Wallace%2C+Rodrick++(2006)+Public+policy%2C+institutional+cognition%2C+and+the+geographic+diffusion+of+multiple-drug-resistant+HIV+in+the+United+States.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4854%2F