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Social media for democracy – understanding the causal mechanisms of digital citizenship

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Deliverables

Attitudinally-positioned European sample dataset (opens in new window)

This deliverable will provide the first version of the data set together with the conceptual and methodological framework required to leverage attitudinal inference for large populations of users in Europe.

Survey on experiments about trust and collaborative vs conflictual language (opens in new window)

The survey will focus on different experimental paradigms and the implications of previous experimental work for understanding the causal antecedents of trust and conflictual language in social media.

Platform affordances (opens in new window)

This deliverable presents an empirically-informed taxonomy of platform affordances.

Democracy theory and social media (opens in new window)

Research paper on Democracy theory and social media: Challenges to liberal democracy and democracy theory

Dissemination and Exploitation Plan (opens in new window)

Plan for dissemination and exploitation including communication activities. Itwill be periodically updated.

Data Management Plan (opens in new window)

This deliverable will establish the management of the data with in the project, establishing the protocols for anonymization, pseudonymization, collection, treatment, transfer, storage, encryption, and publication (for reproducibility of results in articles).

Publications

Nature Communications (opens in new window)

Author(s): Maertens, R; Roozenbeek, J; Simons, JS; Lewandowsky, S; Maturo, V; Goldberg, B; Xu, R; van der Linden, S
Published in: Nature Communications, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-57205-X

Knowledge refracted. A bibliometric analysis of conspiracy texts on Telegram (opens in new window)

Author(s): Willaert, Tom; Meyer, Trisha
Published in: Radices, 2024, ISSN 2736-7770
Publisher: CUTA
DOI: 10.21825/RADICES.91992

Dodging the autocratic bullet: Enlisting behavioural science to arrest democratic backsliding (opens in new window)

Author(s): Abels, Christoph M.; Huttunen, Kiia Jasmin Alexandra; Hertwig, Ralph; Lewandowsky, Stephan
Published in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2024, ISSN 2398-0648
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/BPP.2024.43

Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition (opens in new window)

Author(s): Segun T. Aroyehun; Almog Simchon; Fabio Carrella; Jana Lasser; Stephan Lewandowsky; David Garcia
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, Issue 9, pages 1122–1133, 2025, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2405.07323

Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation (opens in new window)

Author(s): Anastasia Kozyreva; Philipp Lorenz-Spreen; Stefan M. Herzog; Ullrich K. H. Ecker; Stephan Lewandowsky; Ralph Hertwig; Ayesha Ali; Joe Bak-Coleman; Sarit Barzilai; Melisa Basol; Adam J. Berinsky; Cornelia Betsch; John Cook; Lisa K. Fazio; Michael Geers; Andrew M. Guess; Haifeng Huang; Horacio Larreguy; Rakoen Maertens; Folco Panizza; Gordon Pennycook; David G. Rand; Steve Rathje; Jason Reifler; Philipp Schmid; Mark Smith; Briony Swire-Thompson; Paula Szewach; Sander van der Linden; Sam Wineburg
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, Issue 8, 1044-1052, 2024, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41562-024-01881-0

Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption (opens in new window)

Author(s): Lewandowsky, Stephan; Robertson, Ronald E.; DiResta, Renee
Published in: Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023, ISSN 1745-6924
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/17456916231180809

Polarization in Social Media: A Virtual Worlds-based Approach (opens in new window)

Author(s): Dennis Jacob and Sven Banisch
Published in: Journal of artificial societies and social simulation, Issue 26, 2023, ISSN 1460-7425
Publisher: University of Surrey
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.5170

A Formal Model of Affiliative Interpersonality (opens in new window)

Author(s): Stefan Westermann; Sven Banisch
Published in: Clinical Psychological Science, 2024, ISSN 2167-7034
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/21677026241229663

PLoS ONE (opens in new window)

Author(s): Cassells, Duncan; Vendeville, Antoine; Tabourier, Lionel; Ramaciotti, Pedro
Published in: PLOS One, Issue 20(12): e0338486, 2025, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/783HB

Liars know they are lying: differentiating disinformation from disagreement (opens in new window)

Author(s): Stephan Lewandowsky; Ullrich K. H. Ecker; John Cook; Sander van der Linden; Jon Roozenbeek; Naomi Oreskes; Lee McIntyre
Published in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2024, ISSN 2807-5390
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.31234/OSF.IO/Q7VBR

A bias towards neutrality? How LLM guardrail sensitivity affects classification (opens in new window)

Author(s): Rogers, R.; Zhang, X.
Published in: Communication and Change, Issue 1(13), 2025, ISSN 3059-2011
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/S44382-025-00013-0

Seeing is Believing: The Continued Influence of Known AI-Generated ‘Deepfake’ Videos (opens in new window)

Author(s): Simon Clark; Stephan Lewandowsky
Published in: Communications psychology, 2024, ISSN 2731-9121
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.31234/OSF.IO/T7JFK

Revolution by other memes: on the playful subcultures of r/PoliticalCompassMemes (opens in new window)

Author(s): Tuters, M.; Mueller, G.
Published in: Information, Communication & Society, 2024, ISSN 1468-4462
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2423340

Multidimensional political polarization in online social networks (opens in new window)

Author(s): Antonio F. Peralta, Pedro Ramaciotti, János Kertész, and Gerardo Iñiguez
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 6, 2024, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.013170

Thinking clearly about misinformation (opens in new window)

Author(s): Li Qian Tay, Stephan Lewandowsky, Mark J. Hurlstone, Tim Kurz & Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Published in: communications psychology, Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 2731-9121
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/s44271-023-00054-5

Validating Argument-Based Opinion Dynamics with Survey Experiments (opens in new window)

Author(s): Sven Banisch and Hawal Shamon
Published in: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2024, ISSN 1460-7425
Publisher: University of Surrey
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.5305

Blinding to Circumvent Human Biases: Deliberate Ignorance in Humans, Institutions, and Machines (opens in new window)

Author(s): Ralph Hertwig, Stefan M. Herzog, Anastasia Kozyreva
Published in: Perspectives on Psychological Science, Issue 19, 2025, ISSN 1745-6916
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/17456916231188052

Different honesty conceptions align across US politicians' tweets and public replies (opens in new window)

Author(s): Fabio Carrella, Segun T. Aroyehun, Jana Lasser, Almog Simchon, David Garcia, Stephan Lewandowsky
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-56753-6

A computational analysis of Telegram’s narrative affordances (opens in new window)

Author(s): Tom Willaert
Published in: PLoS ONE, 2023, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293508

Inoculation and accuracy prompting increase accuracy discernment in combination but not alone (opens in new window)

Author(s): Gordon Pennycook; Adam J. Berinsky; Puneet Bhargava; Hause Lin; Rocky Cole; Beth Goldberg; Stephan Lewandowsky; David G. Rand
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, Issue 8, pages 2330–2341, 2024, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41562-024-02023-2

Why Misinformation Must Not Be Ignored (opens in new window)

Author(s): Ullrich K. H. Ecker; Li Qian Tay; Jon Roozenbeek; Sander van der Linden; John Cook; Naomi Oreskes; Stephan Lewandowsky
Published in: American Psychologist, 2024, ISSN 1935-990X
Publisher: APA
DOI: 10.1037/AMP0001448

Artnodes (opens in new window)

Author(s): Marco Paladini,Carlo R. M. A. Santagiustina, Costanza Sartoris, Giulia Saya, Michele Schiavinato, Gabriella Traviglia
Published in: artnodes, Issue 33, 2024, ISSN 1695-5951
Publisher: Barcelona: Fundació per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
DOI: 10.7238/artnodes.v0i33.417840

A focus shift in the evaluation of misinformation interventions (opens in new window)

Author(s): L. Tay, S. Lewandowsky, M.J. Hurlstone, T. Kurz, U. K.H. Ecker
Published in: Harvard Misinformation Review, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 2766-1652
Publisher: Harvard Kennedy School
DOI: 10.37016/mr-2020-124

Coupled infectious disease and behavior dynamics. A review of model assumptions (opens in new window)

Author(s): Andreas Reitenbach; Fabio Sartori; Sven Banisch; Anastasia Golovin; André Calero Valdez; Mirjam Kretzschmar; Viola Priesemann; Michael Mäs
Published in: Reports on Progress in Physics, 2024, ISSN 1361-6633
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000179516

Extracting narrative signals from public discourse: a network-based approach (opens in new window)

Author(s): Pournaki, Armin; Willaert, Tom
Published in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025, ISSN 2807-5390
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2411.00702

Auditing the audits: evaluating methodologies for social media recommender system audits (opens in new window)

Author(s): Bouchaud, Paul; Ramaciotti Morales, Pedro
Published in: Applied Network Science, Issue 59(9), 2024, ISSN 2364-8228
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/S41109-024-00668-6

Issues in Science and Technology (opens in new window)

Author(s): Tuters, Marc, Tom Willaert, and Trisha Meyer
Published in: Issues in Science and Technology, Issue 39, ISSN 0748-5492
Publisher: University of Texas at Dallas
DOI: 10.58875/POZR1536

Warning people that they are being microtargeted fails to eliminate persuasive advantage (opens in new window)

Author(s): Fabio Carrella; Almog Simchon; Matthew Edwards; Stephan Lewandowsky
Published in: Communications Psychology, 2025, ISSN 2731-9121
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S44271-025-00188-8

The Misalignment of Incentives in Academic Publishing and Implications for Journal Reform (opens in new window)

Author(s): Trueblood, Jennifer S.; Allison, David B.; Field, Sarahanne M.; Fishbach, Ayelet; Gaillard, Stefan D. M.; Gigerenzer, Gerd; Holmes, William R.; Lewandowsky, Stephan; Matzke, Dora; Murphy, Mary C.; Musslick, Sebastian; Popov, Vencislav; Roskies, Adina L.; ter Schure, Judith; Teodorescu, Andrei R.
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: PNAS
DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.2401231121

Inoculation reduces social media engagement with affectively polarized content in the UK and US (opens in new window)

Author(s): Fintan Smith; Almog Simchon; Dawn Holford; Stephan Lewandowsky
Published in: Communications Psychology, 2023, ISSN 2731-9121
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S44271-025-00189-7

From denazification to the Golden Billion: an inductive analysis of the Kremlin’s weaponisation of digital diplomacy on Telegram (opens in new window)

Author(s): Willaert, Tom; Tuters, Marc
Published in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025, ISSN 2807-5390
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1057/S41599-025-05382-X

Scientific Reports (opens in new window)

Author(s): Hendrik Bruns; François J. Dessart; Michal Wiktor Krawczyk; Stephan Lewandowsky; Myrto Pantazi; Gordon Pennycook; Philipp Schmid; Laura Smillie
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-024-71599-6

Discovering ideological structures in representation learning spaces in recommender systems on social media data (opens in new window)

Author(s): Tim Faverjon, Pedro Ramaciotti
Published in: 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2023
DOI: 10.1145/3625007.3627336

Modeling Both Pairwise Interactions and Group Effects in Polarization on Interaction Networks (opens in new window)

Author(s): Duncan Cassells; Lionel Tabourier; Pedro Ramaciotti
Published in: Springer Proceedings in Complexity, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-57515-0
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-57515-0_4

The Candide model: How narratives emerge where observations meet beliefs (opens in new window)

Author(s): Paul Van Eecke, Lara Verheyen, Tom Willaert, Katrien Beuls
Published in: Proceedings of the 5th workshop on narrative understanding, 2023
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.wnu-1.7

Emoji, Language Games and Political Polarisation

Author(s): Sara Luxmoore, Pedro Ramaciotti Morales, Jonathan Cardoso-Silva
Published in: Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2023, 2023, ISSN 1613-0073
Publisher: ceur-ws.org

The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding (opens in new window)

Author(s): Lewandowsky, Stephan; Kempe, Vera; Armaos, Konstantinos; Hahn, Ulrike; Abels, Christoph M.; Wibisono, Susilo; Louis, Winnifred; Sah, Sunita; Pagel, Christina; Jankowicz, Nina; DiResta, Renee; Markolin, Philipp; Schönemann, Henrik; Hertwig, Ralph; Crull, Henry; Mauer, Barry; Holford, Dawn; Lopez-Lopez, Ezequiel; Cook, John
Published in: EU Open Research Repository, 2025
Publisher: European Commission
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15696097

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