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Not our kind of crowd! How partisan bias distorts perceptions of political bots on Twitter (now X).

Social bots, employed to manipulate public opinion, pose a novel threat to digital societies. Existing bot research has emphasized technological aspects while neglecting psychological factors shaping …

Lüders, A., Reiss, S., Dinkelberg, A., MacCarron, P., & Quayle, M. (2025). Not our kind of crowd! How partisan bias distorts perceptions of political bots on Twitter (now X).. Br J Soc Psychol, 64(2), e12794. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12794

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From Individual Expression to Group Polarization: A Study on Twitter's Emotional Diffusion Patterns in the German Election.

This study analyzes 194,151 tweets from the 2021 German federal election using sentiment analysis and statistical techniques to examine social media's role in shaping group emotions, voters' emotional…

Zhang, Y., Zhou, B., Hu, Y., & Zhai, K. (2025). From Individual Expression to Group Polarization: A Study on Twitter's Emotional Diffusion Patterns in the German Election.. Behav Sci (Basel), 15(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15030360

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Modifiable risk factors of vaccine hesitancy: insights from a mixed methods multiple population study combining machine learning and thematic analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic.

BACKGROUND: Vaccine hesitancy, the delay in acceptance or reluctance to vaccinate, ranks among the top threats to global health. Identifying modifiable factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy is cru…

Ebrahimi, O. V., Sandbakken, E. M., Moss, S. M., Johnson, S. U., Hoffart, A., Bauermeister, S., Solbakken, O. A., Westlye, L. T., & Leonardsen, E. H. (2025). Modifiable risk factors of vaccine hesitancy: insights from a mixed methods multiple population study combining machine learning and thematic analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic.. BMC Med, 23(1), 155. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-03953-y

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To meme or not to meme? Political social media posts and ideologically motivated aggression in job recommendations.

This study tested the notion of ideological asymmetry, which proposes that conservatives are more prejudiced than liberals. It involved 682 self-identified conservative ( = 383) and liberal ( = 299) p…

Ridge, R. D., Hawk, C. E., Hartvigsen, L. D., & McCombs, L. D. (2025). To meme or not to meme? Political social media posts and ideologically motivated aggression in job recommendations.. J Soc Psychol, 165(2), 171-188. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2024.2316619

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Functional connectivity in the social perception pathway at birth is linked with attention to faces at 4 months.

BACKGROUND: Processing faces and speech is supported by the right-lateralized social visual perception pathway (social pathway) involving medial temporal/visual 5 area (MT/V5) and superior temporal su…

Chawarska, K., Vernetti, A., Sun, H., Hampson, M., Li, C., Macari, S., Powell, K., Constable, R. T., Chang, J., Ment, L., & Scheinost, D. (2025). Functional connectivity in the social perception pathway at birth is linked with attention to faces at 4 months.. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.27.640108

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Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube.

An enormous body of literature argues that recommendation algorithms drive political polarization by creating "filter bubbles" and "rabbit holes." Using four experiments with nearly 9,000 participants…

Liu, N., Hu, X. E., Savas, Y., Baum, M. A., Berinsky, A. J., Chaney, A. J. B., Lucas, C., Mariman, R., de, B. e. n. e. d. i. c. t. i. s. -. K. e. s. s. n. e. r. . J., Guess, A. M., Knox, D., & Stewart, B. M. (2025). Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 122(8), e2318127122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2318127122

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Examining emotion reactivity to politically polarizing media in a randomized controlled trial of mindfulness training versus active coping training. ✓

Emotional appraisals of political stimuli (e.g., videos) have been shown to drive shared neural encoding, which correspond to shared, yet divisive, interpretations of such stimuli. However, mindfulnes…

Rahrig, H., Beloborodova, P., Castro, C., Sabet, K., Johnson, M., Pearce, O., Celik, E., & Brown, K. W. (2025). Examining emotion reactivity to politically polarizing media in a randomized controlled trial of mindfulness training versus active coping training.. Sci Rep, 15(1), 5209. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-84510-0

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Unveiling the drivers of active participation in social media discourse.

The emergence of new public forums in the form of online social media has introduced unprecedented challenges to public discourse, including polarization, misinformation, and the rise of echo chambers…

Baqir, A., Chen, Y., Diaz-Diaz, F., Kiyak, S., Louf, T., Morini, V., Pansanella, V., Torricelli, M., & Galeazzi, A. (2025). Unveiling the drivers of active participation in social media discourse.. Sci Rep, 15(1), 4906. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-88117-x

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Public Health Messaging on Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Observational Study.

BACKGROUND: Effective communication is crucial during health crises, and social media has become a prominent platform for public health experts (PHEs) to share information and engage with the public. …

Rao, A., Sabri, N., Guo, S., Raschid, L., & Lerman, K. (2025). Public Health Messaging on Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Observational Study.. J Med Internet Res, 27, e63910. https://doi.org/10.2196/63910

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How eccentricity modulates attention capture by direct face/gaze and sudden onset motion.

We investigated how processing benefits for direct face/gaze and sudden onset motion depend on stimulus presentation location, specifically eccentricity from fixation. Participants responded to target…

Kürten, J., Breil, C., Pittig, R., Huestegge, L., & Böckler, A. (2025). How eccentricity modulates attention capture by direct face/gaze and sudden onset motion.. Atten Percept Psychophys, 87(2), 354-366. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03015-8

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Predicting hostility towards women: incel-related factors in a general sample of men.

Hostility towards women is a type of prejudice that can have adverse effects on women and society, but research on predictors of men's hostility towards women is limited. The present study primarily i…

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Zhang, J., Mollandsøy, A. B., Nornes, C., Erevik, E. K., & Pallesen, S. (2025). Predicting hostility towards women: incel-related factors in a general sample of men.. Scand J Psychol, 66(1), 35-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.13062

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Psychological underpinnings of partisan bias in tie formation on social media.

Individuals preferentially reciprocate connections with copartisans versus counter-partisans online. However, the mechanisms underlying this partisan bias remain unclear. Do individuals simply prefer …

Mosleh, M., Martel, C., & Rand, D. G. (2025). Psychological underpinnings of partisan bias in tie formation on social media.. J Exp Psychol Gen, 154(2), 378-390. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001662

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