Publications

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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CE Robertson, C Pretus, S Rathje, EA Harris, JJ Van Bavel (2023). How social identity shapes conspiratorial belief. Current Opinion in Psychology.

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JJ Van Bavel, C Pretus, S Rathje, P Pärnamets, M Vlasceanu, E Knowles (2023). The Costs of Polarizing a Pandemic: Antecedents, Consequences, and Lessons. Perspectives on Psychological Science (In Press).

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Anastasia Kozyreva, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Stefan Herzog, Ullrich Ecker, Stephan Lewandowsky (2023). Toolbox of interventions against online misinformation and manipulation. Psyarchiv.

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Lina Koppel, Claire Robertson, Kimberly Doell, Ali Javeed, Jesper Rasmussen, Steve Rathje, Madalina Vlasceanu, Jay J Van Bavel (2023). Individual-level solutions may support system-level change–if they are internalized as part of one’s social identity. Behaviorial and Brain Sciences (In Press).

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F Azevedo, T Pavlović, GG Rêgo, FC Ay, B Gjoneska, TW Etienne (2023). Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. Nature Scientific Data.

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DA Reinero, EA Harris, S Rathje, A Duke, JJ Van Bavel (2023). Partisans are more likely to entrench their beliefs in misinformation when political outgroup members fact-check claims. Psyarchiv.

Jay J Van Bavel, Claire Robertson, Kareena del Rosario, Jesper Rasmussen, Steve Rathje (2023). Social Media and Morality. Annual Review of Psychology.

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(2023). The SPIR Model of Social Media and Polarization: Exploring the Role of Selection, Platform Design, Incentives, and Real World Context. International Journal of Communications (In Press).

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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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Jon Roozenbeek, Sander van der Linden, Beth Goldberg, Steve Rathje, Stephan Lewandowsky (2022). Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media. Science Advances.

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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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Rathje, Roozenbeek, Steenbuch Traberg, Van Bavel, & van der Linden (2021). Meta-analysis reveals that accuracy nudges have little to no effect for US conservatives: Regarding Pennycook et al. (2020). . Psychological Science.

Jay J.Van Bavel, Steve Rathje, Elizabeth Harris, Claire Robertson, Anni Sternisko (2021). How social media shapes polarization. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

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Steve Rathje, Jay Van Bavel, Sander vander Linden (2021). Why Facebook really, really doesn’t want to discourage extremism. Washington Post.

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

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Sander van der Linden, Jon Roozenbeek, Rakoen Maertens, Melisa Basol, Ondřej Kácha, Steve Rathje and Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (2021). How Can Psychological Science Help Counter the Spread of Fake News?. The Spanish Journal of Psychology.

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Steve Rathje, Leor Hackel Jamil Zaki (2021). Op-Ed: Why theater makes us better people. Bring it back. Los Angeles Times.

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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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Van Bavel, Cichocka, Capraro, Sjåstad, Nezlek, Alfano, ... Rathje, … Hudecek (2021). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic. Nature Communications.

Jay J Van Bavel, Elizabeth A Harris, Philip Pärnamets, Steve Rathje, Kimberly C Doell, Joshua A Tucker (2021). Political psychology in the digital (mis) information age: A model of news belief and sharing. Social Issues and Policy Review.

Steve Rathje (2018). Why People Ignore Facts. Psychology Today.

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Steve Rathje (2017). The power of framing: It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. The Guardian.

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