Publications

Steve Rathje, Nejla Asimovic*, Tiago Ventura*, Sarah Mughal, Hannah Karsting, Claire E. Robertson, Christopher Barrie, The Global Social Media Experiment Team, Joshua A. Tucker, Jay J. Van Bavel (2025). Testing the Causal Impact of Social Media Reduction Around the Globe. Nature (Stage 1 In Principle Acceptance of Registered Report).

Steve Rathje, Meryl Ye, Laura K. Globig, Raunak M. Pillai, Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello, Jay J. Van Bavel (2025). Sycophantic AI increases attitude extremity and overconfidence. OSF Preprint.

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Steve Rathje, Jay J. Van Bavel (2025). The Psychology of Virality. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

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Steve Rathje, Clara Pretus, James Kunling He, Trisha Harjani, Jon Roozenbeek, Kurt Gray, Dr. Sander van der Linden, Jay J. Van Bavel (2024). Unfollowing hyperpartisan social media influencers durably reduces out-party animosity. PsyArXiv Preprint.

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Steve Rathje, Dan-Mircea Mirea*, Ilia Sucholutsky, Raja Marjieh, Claire Robertson, and Jay J Van Bavel (2024). GPT is an effective tool for multilingual psychological text analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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(2023). People think that social media platforms do (but should not) amplify divisive content. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

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Steve Rathje, Jon Roozenbeek, Jay Van Bavel, Sander van der Linden (2022). Accuracy and Social Motivations Shape Judgements of (Mis)Information. Nature Human Behavior.

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Steve Rathje, James K He, Jon Roozenbeek, Jay J Van Bavel, Sander van der Linden (2022). Social media behavior is associated with vaccine hesitancy . PNAS Nexus.

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Steve Rathje, J.J. Van Bavel, Sander van der Linden (2021). Outgroup Animosity Drives Engagement on Social Media. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Steve Rathje, Leor Hackel, Jamil Zaki (2021). Attending live theatre improves empathy, changes attitudes, and leads to pro-social behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

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