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Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization.

Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants' feeds in real time and used thi…

Cognition politique et traitement des médias

Piccardi, T., Saveski, M., Jia, C., Hancock, J., Tsai, J. L., & Bernstein, M. S. (2025). Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization.. Science, 390(6776), eadu5584. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adu5584

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Selective Empathy Theory: the Bias of Affective Empathy and the Role of Social Frames.

This paper introduces the Selective Empathy Theory, a new theoretical framework that challenges the idealized, universalist understanding of empathy in psychology and social discourse. Contrary to the…

Park, I. K. (2025). Selective Empathy Theory: the Bias of Affective Empathy and the Role of Social Frames.. Integr Psychol Behav Sci, 59(4), 81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-025-09957-w

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Probabilistic inference of social presence across brain scales reveals enhanced synaptic efficacy.

The presence of conspecifics is a fundamental and arguably invariant prerequisite of social cognition across numerous animal species. While the influence of social presence on behavior has been among …

Esmaeili, A., Demolliens, M., Viersen, M., Ziaeemehr, A., Isbaine, F., Huguet, P., Zaal, F., Jirsa, V., Boussaoud, D., & Hashemi, M. (2025). Probabilistic inference of social presence across brain scales reveals enhanced synaptic efficacy.. Commun Biol, 8(1), 1608. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08971-3

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Drivers of health polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.

Health polarization has emerged as a critical factor shaping public health attitudes and behaviors, particularly during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This study provides a systematic review of…

Cognition politique et traitement des médias

Camacho-García, M., Serrano-Macías, M., Ortega-Martin, E., & Alvarez-Galvez, J. (2025). Drivers of health polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.. Sci Adv, 11(46), eady5064. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ady5064

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"Just be honest with us": A qualitative analysis of Canadians' public trust during the COVID-19 pandemic.

OBJECTIVES: This qualitative study examines how trust has changed during and after the pandemic among our study participants. It reveals how they made meaning of trust in federal and provincial govern…

Muhajarine, N., Neudorf, C., Braun, F., Mehdiyeva, K., Baudelaire, K., Omot, A., Bedard, B., Entwistle, K., Bandara, T., Sadique, S., Abraham, N., Huyser, K., Lavoie, K. L., Dubé, �. �., & Betker, C. (2025). "Just be honest with us": A qualitative analysis of Canadians' public trust during the COVID-19 pandemic.. Can J Public Health. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-025-01121-6

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Examining the Meaning of "Violence" Through Machine Learning Techniques.

This paper examines the meaning of violence in contemporary Western societies. Scholars have argued that in contemporary Western societies, the concept is expanding toward a broader understanding of v…

van, B. r. e. e. n. . J., Rijcken, E., Kantorowicz, J., & Liem, M. (2025). Examining the Meaning of "Violence" Through Machine Learning Techniques.. J Interpers Violence, 40(21-22), 5072-5094. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605241301793

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The Fake News and Polarization Landscape: Scoping Review of Fake News Research and its Link with Attitude Polarization. 📖 En lecture

This scoping review investigates the complex landscape of fake news research, focusing on its link with attitudinal polarization and identifying key themes in the literature. Our objectives included m…

Lana-Blond, R., & García-Saiz, M. (2025). The Fake News and Polarization Landscape: Scoping Review of Fake News Research and its Link with Attitude Polarization.. Span J Psychol, 28, e19. https://doi.org/10.1017/SJP.2025.10010

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A competitive edge: how social cues and spatial congruence influence joint attention in addressed or witnessed interactions.

Joint attention is crucial for the development of social cognition, but whether the type of relationship (i.e. cooperative or competitive) or interaction (e.g. addressed or witnessed) modulates joint …

Numérique : perception de la présence d'autres individus dans un environnement numérique sans interaction

Blackie, I., Islam, A., Surtees, A., & Elsherif, M. M. (2025). A competitive edge: how social cues and spatial congruence influence joint attention in addressed or witnessed interactions.. R Soc Open Sci, 12(10), 250467. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250467

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Exploring Remote Collaborative Tasks: The Impact of Avatar Representation on Dyadic Haptic Interactions in Shared Virtual Environments.

This study is the first to explore the interplay between haptic interaction and avatar representation in Shared Virtual Environments (SVEs). Specifically, how these factors shape users' sense of socia…

Numérique : perception de la présence d'autres individus dans un environnement numérique sans interaction

Sasaki, G., & Igarashi, H. (2025). Exploring Remote Collaborative Tasks: The Impact of Avatar Representation on Dyadic Haptic Interactions in Shared Virtual Environments.. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph, 31(10), 8846-8858. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2025.3580546

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Introducing Agent Personality in Crowd Simulation Improves Social Presence and Experienced Realism in Immersive VR.

Convincing crowd behavior simulation is becoming essential in many application domains, including video games, cinematography, urban planning, safety simulations, and training. In this article, we pro…

Numérique : perception de la présence d'autres individus dans un environnement numérique sans interaction

Pascoli, M., Buttussi, F., Schekotihin, K., & Chittaro, L. (2025). Introducing Agent Personality in Crowd Simulation Improves Social Presence and Experienced Realism in Immersive VR.. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph, 31(10), 7269-7283. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2025.3543740

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Ingroup solidarity drives social media engagement after political crises.

Social media are often said to exacerbate polarization by platforming hostility between groups. However, positive social emotions like ingroup solidarity may also drive social media engagement, partic…

Marks, M., Kyrychenko, Y., Gärdebo, J., & Roozenbeek, J. (2025). Ingroup solidarity drives social media engagement after political crises.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 122(35), e2512765122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2512765122

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Following news on social media boosts knowledge, belief accuracy and trust.

Many worry that news on social media leaves people uninformed or even misinformed. Here we conducted a preregistered two-wave online field experiment in France and Germany (N = 3,395) to estimate the …

Altay, S., Hoes, E., & Wojcieszak, M. (2025). Following news on social media boosts knowledge, belief accuracy and trust.. Nat Hum Behav, 9(9), 1833-1842. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02205-6

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