Unchosen topics and optional readings

Unchosen topics

The readings for the unchosen topics in the Student Choice weeks will go here, in case you are interested.

Optional readings

Ethics of using the internet for psychology research

• Kozyreva, A., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Hertwig, R., Lewandowsky, S., & Herzog, S. M. (2021). Public attitudes towards algorithmic personalization and use of personal data online: Evidence from Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00787-w (9 pages)
• Panger, G. (2016). Reassessing the Facebook experiment: critical thinking about the validity of Big Data research. Information, Communication & Society, 19(8), 1108-1126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093525 (15 pages)
• Gosling, S. D., & Mason, W. (2015). Internet research in psychology. Annual review of psychology, 66, 877-902. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010814-015321 (21 pages)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziltBdyFxDo (2 minutes)
• https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

Emotion expression

• Jones, N. M., Wojcik, S. P., Sweeting, J., & Silver, R. C. (2016). Tweeting negative emotion: An investigation of Twitter data in the aftermath of violence on college campuses. Psychological Methods, 21(4), 526–541. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000099 (17 pages)
• Doré, B., Ort, L., Braverman, O., & Ochsner, K. N. (2015). Sadness shifts to anxiety over time and distance from the national tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. Psychological science, 26(4), 363-373. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614562218 (9 pages)
• Yudkin, D., Goodwin, G., Reece, A., Gray, K., & Bhatia, S. (2024). A Large-Scale Investigation of Everyday Moral Dilemmas. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5pcew (18 pages)

Social networks

• Dunbar, R. I. M., Arnaboldi, V., Conti, M., & Passarella, A. (2015). The structure of online social networks mirrors those in the offline world. Social Networks, 43, 39–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2015.04.005 (8 pages)
• Boutyline, A., & Willer, R. (2017). The social structure of political echo chambers: Variation in ideological homophily in online networks. Political psychology, 38(3), 551-569. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12337 (16 pages)
• Konnikova, M. (2014, October 7). The Limits of Friendship. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/social-media-affect-math-dunbar-number-friendships (8 pages)

Curiosity and information seeking

• Kelly, C., Blain, B., & Sharot, T. (2024). High-Level Characteristics of Web Queries Change Under Threat. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c45jn (17 pages)
• Silston, B., Bolger, N., & Ochsner, K. (2024). Close Encounters of the Digital Kind: Motivated Search, Selection and Decision-Making in an Interactive Digital Context. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fvz94 (24 pages)

Collective memory

• Han, E. L. (2020). Journalism and mnemonic practices in Chinese social media: Remembering catastrophic events on Weibo. Memory Studies, 13(2), 162–175. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698017714833 (12 pages)
• García-Gavilanes, R., Mollgaard, A., Tsvetkova, M., & Yasseri, T. (2017). The memory remains: Understanding collective memory in the digital age. Science Advances, 3(4), e1602368. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602368 (6 pages)
• Renner, N. (2019, August 8). How Social Media Shapes Our Identity. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-social-media-shapes-our-identity (7 pages)

Impression formation and self-presentation

• Choi, S., Williams, D., & Kim, H. (2020). A snap of your true self: How self-presentation and temporal affordance influence self-concept on social media. New Media & Society, 146144482097719. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820977199 (18 pages)
• Bailey, E. R., Matz, S. C., Youyou, W., & Iyengar, S. S. (2020). Authentic self-expression on social media is associated with greater subjective well-being. Nature Communications, 11(1), 4889. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18539-w (8 pages)

Social interactions

• Rathje, S., Van Bavel, J. J., & Van Der Linden, S. (2021). Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(26), e2024292118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2024292118 (8 pages)
• Konnikova, M. (2013, October 23). The Psychology of Online Comments. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-psychology-of-online-comments (6 pages)
• Inside Social Media’s ‘Chaos Machine.’ (2023, March 3). Science Friday. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the-chaos-machine-social-media/ (12 minutes)

Nudging and decision-making

• Grüning, D. J., Riedel, F., & Lorenz-Spreen, P. (2023). Directing smartphone use through the self-nudge app one sec. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(8), e2213114120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2213114120 (8 pages)
• Hidden Brain Media. Buying Attention. https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/buying-attention/ (38 minutes)

Misinformation and disinformation

• Pennycook, G., Epstein, Z., Mosleh, M. et al. Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online. Nature 592, 590–595 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03344-2 (13 pages)
• Thompson, J. (2023, October 26). Are We Having a Moral Panic Over Misinformation? Undark Magazine. https://undark.org/2023/10/26/opinion-misinformation-moral-panic/ (10 pages)

Mental health

• Masciantonio, A., Bourguignon, D., Bouchat, P., Balty, M., & Rimé, B. (2021). Don’t put all social network sites in one basket: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and their relations with well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLOS ONE, 16(3), e0248384. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248384 (11 pages)
• Office of the Surgeon General. (2023). Social Media and Youth Mental Health: The US Surgeon General’s Advisory [Internet]. (21 pages)
• Miller, C. C. (2023, June 17). Everyone Says Social Media Is Bad for Teens. Proving It Is Another Thing. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/upshot/social-media-teen-mental-health.html (4 pages)
• Hidden Brain Media. Schadenfacebook. https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/schadenfacebook/ (26 minutes)

Changes to cognition

• Storm, B. C., & Stone, S. M. (2015). Saving-Enhanced Memory: The Benefits of Saving on the Learning and Remembering of New Information. Psychological Science, 26(2), 182–188. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614559285 (8 pages)
• Ward, A. F. (2013). Supernormal: How the Internet Is Changing Our Memories and Our Minds. Psychological Inquiry, 24(4), 341–348. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2013.850148 (8 pages)

Artificial intelligence

• Cadario, R., Longoni, C., & Morewedge, C. K. (2021). Understanding, explaining, and utilizing medical artificial intelligence. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(12), 1636–1642. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01146-0 (6 pages)
• Borau, S., Otterbring, T., Laporte, S., & Fosso Wamba, S. (2021). The most human bot: Female gendering increases humanness perceptions of bots and acceptance of AI. Psychology & Marketing, 38(7), 1052–1068. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21480 (14 pages)
• Bloom, P. (2023, November 29). How Moral Can A.I. Really Be? The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/how-moral-can-ai-really-be (10 pages)
• Science Friday. Why Do Humans Anthropomorphize AI? https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/ai-human-personification/ (17 minutes)

Folk beliefs

• Scharlach, R., & Hallinan, B. (2023). The value affordances of social media engagement features. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 28(6), zmad040. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad040 (9 pages)
• Brodsky, J. E., Lodhi, A. K., Powers, K. L., Blumberg, F. C., & Brooks, P. J. (2021). “It’s just everywhere now”: Middle‐school and college students’ mental models of the Internet. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3(4), 495-511. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbe2.281 (14 pages)
• Bhandari, A., & Bimo, S. (2022). Why’s Everyone on TikTok Now? The Algorithmized Self and the Future of Self-Making on Social Media. Social Media + Society, 1–11. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1177/2056305122108624 (10 pages)

Humor and memes

• Hakoköngäs, E., Halmesvaara, O., & Sakki, I. (2020). Persuasion Through Bitter Humor: Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Rhetoric in Internet Memes of Two Far-Right Groups in Finland. Social Media + Society, 6(2), 205630512092157. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120921575 (10 pages)
• Akram, U., Drabble, J., Cau, G., Hershaw, F., Rajenthran, A., Lowe, M., Trommelen, C., & Ellis, J. G. (2020). Exploratory study on the role of emotion regulation in perceived valence, humour, and beneficial use of depressive internet memes in depression. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 899. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57953-4 (7 pages)
• Marshall, C. (2022, June 17). The Cracked Wisdom of Dril. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-cracked-wisdom-of-dril (8 pages)

Activism

• Karimi, K., & Fox, R. L. (2023). Scrolling, Simping, and Mobilizing: TikTok’s influence over Generation Z’s Political Behavior. The Journal of Social Media in Society, 12(1), 181–208. https://www.thejsms.org/index.php/JSMS/article/view/1251 (20 pages)
• Alsaad, A., Alam, Md. M., & Lutfi, A. (2023). A sensemaking perspective on the association between social media engagement and pro-environment behavioural intention. Technology in Society, 72, 102201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102201 (8 pages)
• Guesmi, H. (2021, January 27). The social media myth about the Arab Spring. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/1/27/the-social-media-myth-about-the-arab-spring (10 pages)
• Caplan-Bricker, N. (2019, March 11). The Challenge of Preserving the Historical Record of #MeToo. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-challenge-of-preserving-the-historical-record-of-metoo (7 pages)