"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."

Abstract. How do voters use left-right ideological labels as shortcuts for policy positions in evaluating electoral candidates? We offer a distinction betw

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The Spence Award recipient answered a few questions about his research on the interactions between human psychology and technology, the highlights of his career, and his practical advice for future re...

Ethical and Reproducible use of Large Language Models for Data Analysis | SPSP 2026 Professional

Two Troland Research Awards of $75,000 are given annually to recognize unusual achievement by early-career researchers (preferably 45 years of age or younger) and to further empirical research within ...

Don’t discount the threat of AI political videos fooling people, but for now, they’re mostly about bolstering group identity and cashing in on viral content.

Scientific Reports - ChatGPT does not replicate human moral judgments: the importance of examining metrics beyond correlation to assess agreement

As AI systems from decision-making algorithms to generative AI are deployed more widely, computer scientists and social scientists alike are being ...

People's goal-directed behaviors are influenced by their cognitive biases, and autonomous systems that interact with people should be aware of this. For example, people's attention to objects in their...

Robustness is better assessed with a few thoughtful models than with billions of regressions

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…