Publications

Practical Resources

• Harjani, T., Roozenbeek, J., Biddlestone, M., van der Linden, S., Stuart, A., Iwahara, M., Piri, B., Xu, R., Goldberg, B., & Graham, M. (2022). A Practical Guide to Prebunking Misinformation.

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2023

• Roozenbeek, J., Suiter, J., & Culloty, E. Countering Misinformation: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Implications of Current Interventions, European Psychologist (Preprint)

2022

• Pertwee, E., Simas, C. & Larson, H.J. An epidemic of uncertainty: rumors, conspiracy theories and vaccine hesitancy. Nat Med 28, 456–459 (2022).
• van der Linden, S. Misinformation: susceptibility, spread, and interventions to immunize the public. Nat Med 28, 460–467 (2022).
• Roozenbeek, J., van der Linden, S. How to Combat Health Misinformation: A Psychological Approach. American Journal of Health Promotion (Feb 2022).
• Savoia, E.; Harriman, N.W.; Piltch-Loeb, R.; Bonetti, M.; Toffolutti, V.; Testa, M.A. Exploring the Association between Misinformation Endorsement, Opinions on the Government Response, Risk Perception, and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the US, Canada, and Italy. Vaccines, 10, 671 (2022)
• Traberg, C.S., Roozenbeek, J., & van der Linden, S. Psychological inoculation against misinformation: Current evidence and future directions. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Apr 2022).
• Lucchini, L., Aiello, L. M., Alessandretti, L., Morales, G. D. F., Starnini, M., & Baronchelli, A. From Reddit to Wall Street: The role of committed minorities in financial collective action. R. Soc. Open Sci. 9211488 (2022).
• Harrop, I., Roozenbeek, J., Madsen, J.K., & van der Linden, S. (in press). Inoculation Can Reduce the Perceived Reliability of Polarizing Social Media Content. International Journal of Communication (2022)
• Roozenbeek, J., Traberg, C.S., & van der Linden, S. Technique-Based Inoculation Against Real-World Misinformation. Royal Society Open Science (May 2022)
• Roozenbeek, J., Maertens, R., Herzog, S., Geers, M., Kurvers, R., Sultan, M., & van der Linden, S. Susceptibility to misinformation is consistent across question framings and response modes and better explained by myside bias and partisanship than analytical thinking. Judgment and Decision Making 17(3) (May 2022)
• Etta, G., Cinelli, M., Galeazzi, A., Valensise, C.M., Quattrociocchi, W. and Conti, M. Comparing the Impact of Social Media Regulations on News Consumption. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (2022)
• Biddlestone, M., Cichocka, A., Glowczewski, M. and Cislak, A. Their own worst enemy? Collective narcissists are willing to conspire against their in-group. British Journal of Psychology (May 2022)
• Etta, M., Galeazzi, A., Hutchings, J.R., et al. COVID-19 infodemic on Facebook and containment measures in Italy, United Kingdom and New Zealand. PLoS One (2022) May 19;17(5):e0267022.
• Cinelli, M., Cresci, S., Quattrociocchi, W. et al. (in press) Coordinated inauthentic behavior and information spreading on Twitter. Decision Support Systems (Available online 9 June 2022)
• Cinelli, M., Etta, G., Avalle, M., Quattrocioccchi, A., di Marco, N., Valensise, C., Galeazzi, A. & Quattrociocchi, W. (in press) Conspiracy theories and social media platforms, Current Opinion in Psychology (Available online 30 June 2022)
• Larson, HL., Gakidou, E., & Murray, CJL. The Vaccine-Hesitant Moment, The New England Journal of Medicine (2022); 387:58-65
• Piltch-Loeb, R., Su, M., Hughes, B. et al. Testing the Efficacy of Attitudinal Inoculation Videos to Enhance COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Quasi-Experimental Intervention Trial, JMIR Public Health Surveill (June 2022) 8(6):e34615
• Roozenbeek, J. van der Linden, S., Goldberg, B. et al. Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media, Science Advances (Aug 2022) 8(34)
• Rathje, S., He, J.K., Roozenbeek, J., Van Bavel, J.J., and van der Linden, S. Social media behavior is associated with vaccine hesitancy, PNAS Nexus (28 Sept 2022)
• Delmastro, M. and Paciello, M. Depression, reduced education, and bias perceptions as risk factors of beliefs in misinformation, Scientific Reports (30 Sept 2022)
• Piltch-Loeb, R., Su, M., Bonetti, M., Testa, M., Stanton, E., Toffolutti, V., and Savoia, E. Cross-National Vaccine Concerns an Predictors of Vaccine Hesitancy in Not-Fully Vaccinated Individuals: Findings from USA, Canada, Sweden, and Italy, Vaccines (Oct 2022) 10(10)
• Wei Y, Harriman NW, Piltch-Loeb R, Testa MA, Savoia E. Exploring the Association between Negative Emotions and COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Unvaccinated Adults in Sweden, Vaccines (Basel) (Oct 2022)
• Cinelli, M., Peruzzi, A., Schmidt, A.L., Villa, R., Costa, E., Quattrociocchi, W., & Zollo, F. Promoting Engagement with Quality Communication in Social Media, PLoS ONE (Oct 2022)
• Falkenberg, M., Galeazzi, A., Torricelli, M., Di Marco, N., Larosa, F., Sas, M., Mekacher, A., Pearce, W., Zollo, F., Quattrociocchi, W. and Baronchelli, A. Growing climate polarisation on social media, Nature Climate Change (Nov 2022)
• Denu, M.K.I., Montrond, A., Piltch-Loeb, R., Bonetti, M., Toffolutti, V., Testa, M.A., & Savoia, E. Freedom of Choice to Vaccinate and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Italy, Vaccines (Nov 2022)
• Biddlestone, M., Roozenbeek, J., & van der Linden, S. Once (but not twice) upon a time: Narrative inoculation against conjunction errors indirectly reduces conspiracy beliefs and improves truth discernment, Applied Cognitive Psychology (Dec 2022)
• Yen-Ting Chen, T., Piltch-Loeb, R., Harriman, N.W., Testa, M., & Savoia, E. A Descriptive Analysis of the Relationship between Social Media Use and Vaccine Hesitancy among a Sample of Unvaccinated Adults in Canada, Vaccines (Dec 2022)
• Roozenbeek, J., & Zollo, F. Democratize social-media research – with access and funding, Nature (Dec 2022)

2021

• Cinelli M, De Francisci Morales G, Galeazzi A, Quattrociocchi W, Starnini M.  The echo chamber effect on social media. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2021) Mar 2;118(9):e2023301118.
• van der Linden, S., Roozenbeek, J., Maertens, R., Basol, M., Kácha, O., Rathje, S. and Traberg, C.S. How can psychological science help counter the spread of fake news?. The Spanish Journal of Psychology (2021), 24.
• Basol, M., Roozenbeek, J., Berriche, M., Uenal, F., McClanahan, W.P. and Linden, S.V.D. Towards psychological herd immunity: Cross-cultural evidence for two prebunking interventions against COVID-19 misinformation. Big Data & Society (2021), 8(1), p.20539517211013868.
• Piltch-Loeb, R., Savoia, E., Goldberg, B., Hughes, B., Verhey, T., Kayyem, J., Miller-Idriss, C. and Testa, M. Examining the effect of information channel on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. Plos One (2021), 16(5), p.e0251095.
• Savoia, E., Piltch-Loeb, R., Goldberg, B., Miller-Idriss, C., Hughes, B., Montrond, A., Kayyem, J. and Testa, M.A. Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: socio-demographics, co-morbidity, and past experience of racial discrimination. Vaccines (2021), 9(7), p.767.
• Biddlestone, M., Green, R., Cichocka, A., Sutton, R. & Douglas, K. Conspiracy beliefs and the individual, relational and collective selves . Social and Personality Psychology Compass (2021),15, 10, e12639.
• Valensise, C.M., Serra, A., Galeazzi, A. et al. Entropy and complexity unveil the landscape of memes evolution. Sci Rep (2021), 11, 20022.
• Savoia, E., Su, M., Piltch-Loeb, R., Masterson, E. and Testa, M.A.  COVID-19 Vaccine Early Skepticism, Misinformation and Informational Needs among Essential Workers in the USA. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2021), 18(24), p.13244.
• Briand, S. C., Cinelli, M., Nguyen, T., Lewis, R., Prybylski, D., Valensise, C. M., … & Quattrociocchi, W. Infodemics: A new challenge for public health. Cell (2021), Dec 9;184(25):6010-6014.

2020

• Bonaccorsi, Giovanni, Francesco Pierri, Matteo Cinelli, Andrea Flori, Alessandro Galeazzi, Francesco Porcelli, Ana Lucia Schmidt et al. “Economic and social consequences of human mobility restrictions under COVID-19.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  (2020), 117, no. 27: 15530-15535.
• Scala, A., Flori, A., Spelta, A. et al. Time, space and social interactions: exit mechanisms for the Covid-19 epidemics. Sci Rep (2020),10, 13764.
• Cinelli, M., Quattrociocchi, W., Galeazzi, A., Valensise, C.M., Brugnoli, E., Schmidt, A.L., Zola, P., Zollo, F. and Scala, A. The COVID-19 social media infodemic. Scientific Reports (2020), 10(1), pp.1-10.
• Biddlestone, M., Cichocka, A., Glowczewski, M., & Cislak, A. Their own worst enemy? Collective narcissists are willing to conspire against their in-group. Annual Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, Virtual conference (2020) (Pending publication).
• Biddlestone, M., Green, R. & Douglas, K.M. Cultural orientation, power, belief in conspiracy theories, and intentions to reduce the spread of COVID-19. British Journal of Social Psychology (2020), 59, 663-673.