Publications
DeVerna, M. R., Pierri, F., Ahn, Y.-Y., Fortunato, S., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2025). Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media. npj Complexity.
Stevic, A., Lee, A. Y., Liu, S. X., & Hancock, J. (2025). Of Loving and Losing: The Influence of Dating App Motivations and Perceived Success on Psychological Well-Being. Social Media + Society, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251346888 (Original work published 2025)
Stevic, A., Liftinger, H., & Matthes, J. (2025). Observing phubbing behaviors during casual and serious conversations: Consequences for conversation quality, connectedness, and appropriateness. BMC Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02426-4
Kaňková, J., Stevic, A., Binder, A., & Matthes, J. (2025). Time to BeReal! Exploring users' well-being in relation to BeReal use duration. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251317689
Stevic, A., Koban, K., & Matthes, J. (2025). Tell me more: Longitudinal relationships between online self-disclosure, co-rumination, and psychological well-being. Computers in Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108540
Van Meter, A., Wheaton, M. G., Cosgrove, V. E., Andreadis, K., & Robertson, R. E. (2025). The Goldilocks Zone: Finding the right balance of user and institutional risk for suicide-related generative AI queries. PLOS Digital Health. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000711
Robertson, R. E., Williams, E. M., Carley, K. M., Thiel, D. (2025). Data Voids and Warning Banners on Google Search. Arxiv Preprint. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.17542
Wan, A., Guo, Z., Ozturan, B., Robertson, R., & Lazer, D. (2025). Searching for Elected Officials: Google’s Prioritization of Political Information. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 5. https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2025.022
Mejova, Y., Robertson, R. E., Gimbrone, C. A., & McKetta, S. (2025). Google Search Advertising After Dobbs V. Jackson. 10th International Digital Public Health Conference (DPH). https://doi.org/10.1109/DPH66411.2025.11198074
Lee, A. Y., Neumann, E., & Hancock, J. (2025). Americans Overestimate How Many Social Media Users Post Harmful Content. PNAS Nexus. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf310
Cullen, Z. N., Lee, A. Y., Davidson, B., Hancock, J. T., & Ellison, N. B. (2025). Not Just'For You': How the Algorithmic Crystal Mediates Communication and Identity Work on TikTok's FYP. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(7), 1-27. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3757636
Lee, A. Y., Moore, R. C., & Hancock, J. T. (2025). Building resilience to misinformation in communities of color: results from two studies of tailored digital media literacy interventions. New Media & Society, 27(6), 3545-3576. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241227841
Cerit, M., Lee, A. Y., Hancock, J., Miner, A., Cho, M. J., Muise, D., & Reeves, B. (2025). Person-Specific Analyses of Smartphone Use and Mental Health: Intensive Longitudinal Study. JMIR Formative Research, 9(1), e59875. https://doi.org/10.2196/59875
Cheng, M., Lee, A. Y., Rapuano, K., Niederhoffer, K., Liebscher, A., & Hancock, J. (2025). From tools to thieves: Measuring and understanding public perceptions of AI through crowdsourced metaphors. ACM FAccT.
Cheng, M., Lee, A. Y., Rapuano, K., Niederhoffer, K., Liebscher, A., & Hancock, J. (2025). Metaphors of AI indicate that people increasingly perceive AI as warm and human-like. Nature Communications Psychology.
Lee, A. Y., Ellison, N. B., & Hancock, J. T. (2023). To use or be used? The role of agency in social media use and well-being. Frontiers in Computer Science, 5, 1123323. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2023.1123323
Fauville, G., Luo, M., Queiroz, A. C. M., Lee, A., Bailenson, J. N., & Hancock, J. (2023). Video-conferencing usage dynamics and nonverbal mechanisms exacerbate Zoom Fatigue, particularly for women. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 10, 100271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2023.100271
Lee, A. Y., & Hancock, J. T. (2023). Developing digital resilience: An educational intervention improves elementary students’ response to digital challenges. Computers and Education Open, 5, 100144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2023.100144
Lee, A. Y., Moore, R. C., & Hancock, J. T. (2023). Designing misinformation interventions for all: Perspectives from AAPI, Black, Latino, and Native American community leaders on misinformation educational efforts. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/designing-misinformation-interventions-for-all-perspectives-from-aapi-black-latino-and-native-american-community-leaders-on-misinformation-educational-efforts/
Jia, C., Lee, A. Y., Moore, R. C., Decatur, C. H. S., Liu, S. X., & Hancock, J. T. (2024). Collaboration, crowdsourcing, and misinformation. PNAS nexus, 3(10), 434. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae434
Lee, A. Y., & Hancock, J. T. (2024). Social media mindsets: A new approach to understanding social media use and psychological well-being. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 29(1), zmad048. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad048
Lee, A. Y., Mieczkowski, H., Ellison, N. B., & Hancock, J. T. (2022). The algorithmic crystal: Conceptualizing the self through algorithmic personalization on TikTok. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-computer Interaction, 6(CSCW2), 1-22. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3555601
Tu, F. (2024). Empowering social media users: nudge toward self-engaged verification for improved truth and sharing discernment. Journal of Communication, 74(3), 225-236. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqae007
Dahlke, R., Tu, F., Wang, Y. C., Lu, Y., Engeda, B. W., & Hancock, J. T. (2025). Contextualizing Misinformation: A User-Centric Approach to Linguistic and Topical Patterns in News Consumption. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(7), 1-40.
Tu, F., Pan, Z., & Jia, X. (2023). Facts are hard to come by: discerning and sharing factual information on social media. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 28(4), zmad021.
Chen, Y. A., & Mares, M. L. (2025). Social media self-presentation of LGBTQ+ youth in the U.S.: The role of identity exploration, context collapse, and supportive feedback. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 30(6). https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmaf020
Chen, Y. A. & Toma, C. L. (2025). The combined well-being effects of social media activities: How self-affirmation can buffer against upward social comparisons on Instagram. Human Communication Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqaf022
Chen, Y. A. & Fan, T. (2024). Adolescents’ mental health, problematic internet use, and their parents’ rules on internet use: A latent profile analysis. Computers in Human Behavior. 156. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108232
Chen, Y. A. & Toma, C. L. (2024). To text or talk in person?: Social anxiety, media affordances, and preferences for texting over face-to-face communication in dating relationships. Media Psychology. 27(3), 428-454. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2023.2246895
Site content
- Vaid, S., Kroencke, L., Roshanaei, M., Talaifar, S., Hancock, J., Back, M., Gosling, S., Ram, N., & Harari, G. (2024, March 19). Variation in social media sensitivity across people and contexts. Scientific Reports .
- Liu, X. "Sunny", Siegel, D. ., Hochman, B. ., & Hancock, J. (2024, March 12). Getting Past the Headlines Using Evidence to Help Families and Adolescents with the Challenges of Social Media. https://purl.stanford.edu/by021jf0676
- Lee, A., Moore, R., & Hancock, J. (2024, February 29). Building resilience to misinformation in communities of color: Results from two studies of tailored digital media literacy interventions. New Media & Society https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241227841.
- Lee, A., & Hancock, J. (2024, February 21). Social media mindsets: a new approach to understanding social media use and psychological well-being. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad048.
- Schreurs, L., Lee, A., Hancock, J., & Liu, X. "Sunny". (2024, February 20). When Adolescents’ Self-Worth Depends on Their Social Media Feedback: A Longitudinal Investigation With Depressive Symptoms. Communication Research https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502241233787.
- Liu, X. "Sunny", Shen, Q., & Hancock, J. (2024, January 10). But is it for us? Rural Chinese elders’ perceptions, concerns, and physical preferences regarding social robots. New Media & Society.
- Park, J., Hallman, J., & Hancock, J. (2024). Black Representation in Social Media Well-Being Research: A Scoping Review of Social Media Experience and Psychological Well-being Among Black Users in the United States. New Media & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231191542.
- Moore, R., Hancock, J., & Bailenson, J. (2023, December 11). From 65 to 103, Older Adults Experience Virtual Reality Differently Depending on Their Age: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Study in Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2023.0188.
- Dahlke, R., Kumar, D., Hancock, J., & Durumeric, Z. (2023, November 29). Quantifying the Systematic Bias in the Accessibility and Inaccessibility of Web Scraping Content From URL-Logged Web-Browsing Digital Trace Data. Social Science Computer Review https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393231218214.
- Hohenstein, J., Kizilcec, R., DiFranzo, D., Aghajari, Z., Mieczkowski, H., Levy, K., Naaman, M., Hancock, J., & Jung, M. (2023, October 3). Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language and social relationships. Scientific Reports.
- Markowitz , D. ., Hancock, J., & Bailenson, J. . (2023, September 11). Linguistic Markers of Inherently False AI Communication and Intentionally False Human Communication: Evidence From Hotel Reviews. Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
- Moore, R., Dahlke, R., & Hancock, J. (2023, April 13). Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2020 US election.
- Lee, A., Ellison, N., & Hancock, J. (2023, April 3). To use or be used? The role of agency in social media use and well-being. Front. Comput. Sci.
- Jakesch , M. ., Hancock, J., & Naaman, M. (2023, March 7). Human heuristics for AI-generated language are flawed. PNAS.
- Fauville, G., Luo, M., Queiroz, A., Lee, A., Bailenson, J., & Hancock, J. (2023, February 23). Video-conferencing usage dynamics and nonverbal mechanisms exacerbate zoom fatigue, particularly for women. Computers in Human Behavior Reports.
- Lee, A., Moore, R., & Hancock, J. (2023, February). Designing misinformation interventions for all: Perspectives from AAPI, Black, Latino, and Native American community leaders on misinformation educational efforts. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review DOI: https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-111.
- Han, E., Miller, M., DeVeaux, C., Jun, H., Nowak, K., Hancock, J., Ram, N., & Bailenson, J. (2023, January 6). People, places, and time: a large-scale, longitudinal study of transformed avatars and environmental context in group interaction in the metaverse. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
- DeVeaux, C., Markowitz, D., Han, E., Miller, M., Hancock, J., & Bailenson, J. (2023). Descriptive Linguistic Patterns of Group Conversations in VR. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW).
- Lee, A., & Hancock , J. (2023). Developing digital resilience: An educational intervention improves elementary students’ response to digital challenges. Computers and Education Open.
- Queiroz, A. ., Lee, A., Luo, M., Fauville, G., Hancock, J., & Bailenson, J. (2023). Too tired to connect: Understanding the associations between video-conferencing, social connection and well-being through the lens of zoom fatigue. Computers in Human Behavior | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107968.