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This page contains a detailed listing of research papers, scientific reports and other articles published within the SoMe4Dem project.

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2025 Journal Open Access
Christoph M. Abels, Ezeqiel Lopez-Lopez, Jason W. Burton, Dawn Holford, Levin Brinkmann and Stephan Lewandowsky

Mapping the governance and behavioral challenges of hypercustomization driven by generative artificial intelligence

In: Behavioral science and policy, 11 (2025) 1, pp. 22-32
BibTex DOI: 10.1177/23794607251347020 Link: hdl.handle.net
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2025 Journal Open Access
Segun Taofeek Aroyehun, Almog Simchon, Fabio Carrella, Jana Lasser, Stephan Lewandowsky and David Garcia

Computational analysis of US Congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition

In: Nature human behaviour, 9 (2025), pp. 1122-1133
BibTex DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02136-2 ArXiv: 2405.07323
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2025 Journal Open Access
Fabio Carrella, Segun Taofeek Aroyehun, Jana Lasser, Almog Simchon, David Garcia and Stephan Lewandowsky

Different honesty conceptions align across US politicians' tweets and public replies

In: Nature communications, 16 (2025), p. 1409
BibTex DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56753-6
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2025 Journal Open Access
Fabio Carrella, Almog Simchon, Matthew Edwards and Stephan Lewandowsky

Warning people that they are being microtargeted fails to eliminate persuasive advantage

In: Communications psychology, 3 (2025), p. 15
BibTex DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00188-8 Link: osf.io
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2025 Journal Open Access
Duncan Cassells, Antoine Vendeville, Lionel Tabourier and Pedro Ramaciotti

Co-evolution of groups and opinions in an agent-based model

In: PLOS ONE, 20 (2025) 12, e0338486
BibTex DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0338486
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2025 Repository Open Access
Felix Gaisbauer, Armin Pournaki and Jakob Ohme

A political cartography of news sharing : capturing story, outlet and content level of news circulation on Twitter

BibTex ArXiv: 2505.08359
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2025 Journal Open Access
Ralph Hertwig and Stephan Lewandowsky

How citizens' experience of democracy can actually pave the way to democratic backsliding

In: Communications psychology, 3 (2025), p. 144
BibTex DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00327-1
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2025
Stefan M. Herzog and Ralph Hertwig

Boosting : empowering citizens with behavioral science

In: Annual review of psychology, 76 (2025), pp. 851-881
BibTex DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-020924-124753
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2025 Repository Open Access
Marjan Horvat, Jure Koražija, Jan Babnik and Tadej Skvorc

Cultural memory from antagonism to deliberation in (social) media : AI approach

BibTex Link: zenodo.org
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2025
Stephan Lewandowsky and Ralph Hertwig

Critical ignoring when information abundance is detrimental to democracy

In: Current opinion in psychology, 66 (2025), p. 102128
BibTex DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102128
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2025 Journal Open Access
Ezeqiel Lopez-Lopez, Christoph M. Abels, Dawn Holford, Stefan M. Herzog and Stephan Lewandowsky

Generative artificial intelligence-mediated confirmation bias in health information seeking

In: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, (2025)
BibTex DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15413
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2025 Journal Open Access
Rakoen Maertens, Jon Roozenbeek, Jon S. Simons, Stephan Lewandowsky, Vanessa Maturo, Beth Goldberg, Rachel Xu and Sander van der Linden

Psychological booster shots targeting memory increase long-term resistance against misinformation

In: Nature communications, 16 (2025), p. 2062
BibTex DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57205-x
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2025 Repository Open Access
Lisa Oswald, Will Schulz and Philipp Lorenz-Spreen

A collective field experiment disentangling participation in online political discussions

In: Science advances, 11 (2025) 50, eady8022
BibTex DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ady8022 Link: osf.io
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2025 Repository Open Access
Lisa Oswald, Will Schulz, Ralph Hertwig, David Lazer and Sebastian Stier

The tip of the iceberg : How the social media production-consumption gap distorts public opinion for citizens and researchers

BibTex Link: osf.io
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2025 Repository Open Access
Armin Pournaki

Conflicting narratives and polarization on social media

BibTex ArXiv: 2507.15600
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2025 Journal Open Access
Armin Pournaki and Tom Willaert

Extracting narrative signals from public discourse: a network-based approach

In: Humanities and social sciences communications, 12 (2025), p. 1774
BibTex DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-06017-x ArXiv: 2411.00702
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2025 Repository Open Access
Armin Pournaki, Felix Gaisbauer and Eckehard Olbrich

How influencers and multipliers drive polarization and issue alignment on Twitter/X

In: ICWSM 2025 : International AAAI conference on web and social media ; June 23-26, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark
Palo Alto, Calif : AAAI - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2025.
BibTex ArXiv: 2505.14280
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2025 Repository Open Access
Olesya Razuvayevskaya, Adel Tayebi, Ulrikke Dybdal Sørensen, Kalina Bontcheva and Richard Rogers

Timeliness, consensus, and composition of the crowd : community notes on X

BibTex ArXiv: 2510.12559
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2025 Journal Open Access
Richard Rogers and Xiaoke Zhang

A bias towards neutrality? How LLM guardrail sensitivity affects classification

In: Communication and change, 1 (2025) 1, p. 13
BibTex DOI: 10.1007/s44382-025-00013-0
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2025 Repository Open Access
Carlo Santagiustina, Jean-Philippe Cointet and Pedro Ramaciotti

Expressing one's identity online : left-right and cross EU-country variation in self-representation in social media

BibTex ArXiv: 2501.05927
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2025 Repository Open Access
Costanza Sartoris, Lydia Milly Certa and Sasha Piccione

Organizing in a fluid social media sphere : the empowering and disempowering effects of ownership, openness, and stakeholder engagement through an affordance perspective

BibTex ssrn.com
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2025 Journal Open Access
Fintan Smith, Almog Simchon, Dawn Holford and Stephan Lewandowsky

Inoculation reduces social media engagement with affectively polarized content in the UK and US

In: Communications psychology, 3 (2025), p. 11
BibTex DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00189-7
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2025 Journal Open Access
Katharina Tittel, William Allen and Pedro Ramaciotti

Flooding the feed : the politics of social media sharing among defensive publics

In: Political communication, (2025)
BibTex DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2025.2588248
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2025 Repository Open Access
Antoine Vendeville, Jimena Royo-Letelier, Duncan Cassells, Jean-Philippe Cointet, Maxime Crépel, Tim Faverjon, Théophile Lenoir, Béatrice Mazoyer, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou, Armin Pournaki, Maxime Yamashita and Pedro Ramaciotti

Mapping the political landscape from data traces : multidimensional opinions of users, politicians and media outlets on X

BibTex Link: hal.science Link: osf.io
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2025 Repository Open Access
Stefan Westermann and Sven Banisch

A formal model of affiliative interpersonality

In: Clinical psychological science, 13 (2025) 1, pp. 43-68
BibTex DOI: 10.1177/21677026241229663 Link: osf.io
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2025 Journal Open Access
Tom Willaert and Marc Tuters

From denazification to the Golden Billion : an inductive analysis of the Kremlin's weaponisation of digital diplomacy on Telegram

In: Humanities and social sciences communications, 12 (2025), p. 989
BibTex DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-05382-x
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2024 Repository Open Access
Christoph M. Abels, Kiia Huttunen, Stephan Lewandowsky and Ralph Hertwig

Dodging the autocratic bullet : enlisting behavioural science to arrest democratic backsliding

BibTex Link: osf.io
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2024 Repository Open Access
Sven Banisch, Dennis Jacob, Tom Willaert and Eckehard Olbrich

A dynamical model of platform choice and online segregation

BibTex ArXiv: 2411.04681
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2024 Journal Open Access
Sven Banisch and Hawal Shamon

Validating argument-based opinion dynamics with survey experiments

In: The journal of artificial societies and social simulation, 27 (2024) 1, p. 17
BibTex DOI: 10.18564/jasss.5305 ArXiv: 2212.10143
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2024 Journal Open Access
Hendrik Bruns, François J. Dessart, Michał Krawczyk, Stephan Lewandowsky, Myrto Pantazi, Gordon Pennycook, Philipp Schmid and Laura Smillie

Investigating the role of source and source trust in prebunks and debunks

In: Scientific reports, 14 (2024), p. 20723
BibTex DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-71599-6
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2024 Repository Open Access
Duncan Cassells, Lionel Tabourier and Pedro Ramaciotti

Modeling both pairwise interactions and group effects in polarization on interaction networks

In: Complex networks XV : proceedings of the 15th conference on complex networks, CompleNet 2024 / Federico Botta... (eds.)
Cham : Springer, 2024. - pp. 43-54
(Springer proceedings in complexity)
BibTex DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-57515-0_4
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2024 Repository Open Access
Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Li Qian Tay, Jon Roozenbeek, Sander van der Linden, John Cook, Naomi Oreskes and Stephan Lewandowsky

Why misinformation must not be ignored

BibTex Link: osf.io
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2024 Repository Open Access
Tim Faverjon and Pedro Ramaciotti

Discovering ideological structures in representation learning spaces in recommender systems on social media data

In: ASONAM '23 : Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/ACM international conference on advances in social networks analysis and mining ; November 6-9, 2023 / Jon Rokne... (eds.)
New York : Association for Computing Machinery, 2024. - pp. 400-406
BibTex DOI: 10.1145/3625007.3627336 Link: hal.science
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2024 Repository Open Access
Anastasia Kozyreva, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Stefan M. Herzog, Ullrich Ecker, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ralph Hertwig, Ayesha Ali, Joseph Bak-Coleman, Sarit Barzilai, Melisa Basol, Adam J. Berinsky, Cornelia Betsch, John Cook, Lisa Fazio, Michael Geers, Andrew Guess, Haifeng Huang, Horacio Larreguy, Rakoen Maertens, Folco Panizza, Gordon Pennycook, David Rand, Steve Rathje, Jason Reifler, Philipp Schmid, Mark Smith, Briony Swire-Thompson, Paula Szewach, Sander van der Linden and Sam Wineburg

Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation

BibTex Link: osf.io
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2024 Journal Open Access
Stephan Lewandowsky, Ronald E. Robertson and Renee DiResta

Challenges in understanding human-algorithm entanglement during online information consumption

In: Perspectives on psychological science, 19 (2024) 5, pp. 758-766
BibTex DOI: 10.1177/17456916231180809
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2024 Journal Open Access
Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, John Cook, Sander van der Linden, Jon Roozenbeek and Naomi Oreskes

Liars know they are lying : differentiating disinformation from disagreement

In: Humanities and social sciences communications, 11 (2024), p. 986
BibTex DOI: 10.1057/s41599-024-03503-6
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2024 Journal Open Access
Stephan Lewandowsky, David Garcia, Almog Simchon and Fabio Carrella

When liars are considered honest

In: Trends in cognitive sciences, 28 (2024) 5, pp. 383-385
BibTex DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.03.005
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2024 Repository Open Access
Alessandro Miani and Stephan Lewandowsky

Still very much dead and alive : re-reconsidering belief in contradictory conspiracy theories

BibTex Link: osf.io
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2024 Repository Open Access
Pedro Ramaciotti Morales, Jimena Royo-Letelier, Jean-Philippe Cointet and Armin Pournaki

Attitudinally-positioned European sample dataset

BibTex Link: hal.science
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2024 Journal Open Access
Marco Paladini, Carlo Santagiustina, Costanza Sartoris, Giulia Saya, Michele Schiavinato and Gabriella Traviglia

The AquaGranda digital community memory : activating climate risk awareness

In: Artnodes : intersecciones entre artes, ciencias y tecnologías, 33 (2024), pp. 1-13
BibTex DOI: 10.7238/artnodes.v0i33.417840
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2024 Repository Open Access
Gordon Pennycook, Adam J. Berinsky, Puneet Bhargava, Hause Lin, Rocky Cole, Beth Goldberg, Stephan Lewandowsky and David Rand

Inoculation and accuracy prompting increase accuracy discernment in combination but not alone

In: Nature human behaviour, 8 (2024) 12, pp. 2330-2341
BibTex DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-02023-2 Link: hdl.handle.net
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2024 Journal Open Access
Antonio F. Peralta, Pedro Ramaciotti, János Kertész and Gerardo Iñiguez

Multidimensional political polarization in online social networks

In: Physical review research, 6 (2024) 1, p. 013170
BibTex DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.013170 ArXiv: 2305.02941
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2024 Repository Open Access
Costanza Sartoris, Sasha Piccione and Caterina Cruciani

The long life of Wikipedia : affordances and trust

BibTex Link: ssrn.com
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2024 Journal Open Access
Li Qian Tay, Stephan Lewandowsky, Mark J. Hurlstone, Tim Kurz and Ullrich K. H. Ecker

Thinking clearly about misinformation

In: Communications psychology, 2 (2024), p. 4
BibTex DOI: 10.1038/s44271-023-00054-5
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2024 Journal Open Access
Marc Tuters and Gavin Mueller

Revolution by other memes: on the playful subcultures of r/PoliticalCompassMemes

In: Information, communication and society, 27 (2024) 12, pp. 2260-2280
BibTex DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2423340
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2023 Journal Open Access
Dennis Jacob and Sven Banisch

Polarization in social media : a virtual worlds-based approach

In: The journal of artificial societies and social simulation, 26 (2023) 3, p. 11
BibTex DOI: 10.18564/jasss.5170
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2023
Sara Luxmoore, Jonathan Cardoso Silva and Pedro Ramaciotti

Emoji, language games and political polarisation

In: Proceedings of the computational humanities research conference 2023 (CHR 2023), Paris, France, December 6-8, 2023 / Artjoms Sela (ed.)
Aachen : RWTH Aachen, 2023. - pp. 639-660
(CEUR workshop proceedings ; 3558)
BibTex Link: ceur-ws.org
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2023 Repository Open Access
Gordon Pennycook, Adam J. Berinsky, Puneet Bhargava, Hause Lin, Rocky Cole, Beth Goldberg, Stephan Lewandowsky and David Rand

Technique-based inoculation and accuracy prompts must be combined to increase truth discernment online

BibTex Link: osf.io
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2023 Journal Open Access
Li Qian Tay, Stephan Lewandowsky, Mark J. Hurlstone, Tim Kurz and Ullrich K. H. Ecker

A focus shift in the evaluation of misinformation interventions

In: Harvard Kennedy School misinformation review, 4 (2023) 5, pp. 1-9
BibTex DOI: 10.37016/mr-2020-124
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2023 Journal Open Access
Marc Tuters, Tom Willaert and Trisha Meyer

How science gets drawn into global conspiracy narratives

In: Issues in science and technology, 39 (2023) 3, pp. 32-36
BibTex DOI: 10.58875/POZR1536
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2023 Journal Open Access
Paul Van Eecke, Lara Verheyen, Tom Wilaert and Katrien Beuls

The Candide model : how narratives emerge where observations meet beliefs

In: Proceedings of the 5th workshop on narrative understanding : Toronto, Canada / Nader Akoury... (eds.)
Stroudsburg, PA : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. - pp. 48-57
BibTex DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.wnu-1.7
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2023 Journal Open Access
Tom Willaert

A computational analysis of Telegram's narrative affordances

In: PLOS ONE, 18 (2023) 11, e0293508
BibTex DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293508