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| A Culture-Behavior-Brain Loop Model of Human Development | Shihui Han, Yina Ma | Han and Ma present the CBB loop model as an integrative framework that emphasizes dynamic… |  | 10.1016/j.tics.2015.08.010, 10.1016/j.tics.2015.08.010 |
| A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance | Leon Festinger | Festinger introduces cognitive dissonance as the aversive arousal that arises when individuals perceive inconsistency among… |  | 9780804709118 |
| Attachment and Loss: Retrospect and Prospect | John Bowlby | Bowlby presents a historical narrative of the development of attachment theory, detailing the clinical observations… | 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1982.tb01456.x | |
| Black Memes Matter: #LivingWhileBlack with Becky and Karen | Apryl Williams | This article conducts a digital cultural analysis of memes associated with Living While Black and… | 10.1177/2056305120981047 | |
| Collective Social Identity: Synthesizing Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory Using Digital Data | Jenny L Davis, Phoenicia Fares, Tony P Love | The authors argue that collective identity (identity tied to activist causes and movements) functions as… | 10.1177/019027251985 | |
| Context collapse: theorizing context collusions and collisions | Jenny L Davis, Nathan Jurgenson | This article advances the concept of context collapse by identifying two distinct forms: collusions, where… | 10.1080/1369118X.2014.888458 | |
| Curation: A Theoretical Treatment | Jenny L Davis | Davis argues that digital curation is a fundamental practice in contemporary media environments, emerging in… | 10.1080/1369118X.2016.1203972 | |
| Custodians of the Internet | Tarleton Gillespie | Gillespie explores the hidden governance systems embedded in platform content moderation, arguing that these decisions… | ||
| Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force? Evidence from 911 Calls | Carly Will Sloan, Mark Hoekstra | Hoekstra and Sloan analyze over 2 million 911 call records across several jurisdictions, focusing on… | NBER 29061 | |
| Emotional consequences and attention rewards: the social effects of ratings on Reddit | Jenny L Davis, Timothy Graham | The authors examine the social effects of rating features on Reddit (a platform where users… | 10.1080/1369118X.2021.1874476 | |
| Extended Self in a Digital World | Russell W Belk | This conceptual article revisits the extended self—a foundational idea in consumer research that possessions become… | 10.1086/671052 | |
| How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things | Jenny L Davis | In this book, Davis argues that traditional formulations of affordances—originating in ecological psychology and later… |  | 9780262554107 |
| Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community | Judith Donath | This chapter draft for Chapter 2 of Routledge book “Communities in Cyberspace” examines the dynamics… | 9780415191401 | |
| Individuals higher in psychological entitlement respond to bad luck with anger | Alexander H Jordan, Emily M Zitek | The study investigates how psychological entitlement shapes emotional responses to bad luck. Across three studies,… | 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110684 | |
| Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion | Robert Cialdini | Cialdini synthesizes decades of research on persuasion into a set of core principles that reliably… | 9780062937650 | |
| It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens | danah boyd | Drawing on extensive ethnographic research with adolescents across the United States, It’s Complicated examines how… | 978-0-300-16631-6 | |
| Mass Communication and Parasocial Interaction: Observations on Intimacy at a Distance | Donald Horton, R Richard Wohl | In this foundational piece on media effects, Horton and Wohl argue that advancements in mass… | 10.1080/00332747.1956.11023049 | |
| Music, Language, and the Brain | Patel’s book explores parallels between music and language in terms of perception, memory, syntax, and… |  | 978-0199755301 | |
| Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain | Oliver Sacks | Sacks draws on clinical cases and neuroscience research to illustrate how music affects brain function… | 978-1400040810 | |
| Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness | Cass R Sunstein, Richard H Thaler | Thaler and Sunstein synthesize insights from behavioral economics and psychology to show that individuals often… |  | 978-0-300-12223-7 |
| Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View | Stanley Milgram | Based on controlled laboratory experiments, Milgram investigated how far people would go in inflicting perceived… |  | 9780061765216 |
| On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 | Angelina McMillan-Major, Emily M Bender, Schmargaret Scmitchell, Timnit Gebru | This position paper takes stock of the rapid growth in size and complexity of natural… | 10.1145/3442188.344592 | |
| On the failure to eliminate hypotheses in a conceptual task | Peter Cathcart Wason | Wason’s 1960 paper explores how individuals test hypotheses using a simple card-based logic task and… | 10.1080/17470216008416717 | |
| Politeness: Some Universals in Language Use | Penelope Brown, Stephen C Levinson | Building on the concept of “face” from Goffman and cross‑cultural data, Brown and Levinson propose… |  | 978-0521313551 |
| Psilocybin with psychological support for treatment-resistant depression: six-month follow-up | A Feilding, B Forbes, B Giribladi, C M J Day, D E Erritzoe, D J Nutt, D Taylor, H V Curran, J A Rickard, J Rucker, M Bloomfield, M Bolstridge, M Kaelen, R L Carhart-Harris, R Watts, S Pilling | In this longitudinal, open‑label clinical trial, 20 participants with severe, treatment‑resistant major depression received two… | 10.1007/s00213-017-4771-x | |
| Social Identity and Intergroup Relations | Henri Tajfel | This Tajfel-edited volume brings together theoretical and empirical contributions that articulate the social identity perspective,… |  | 978-0521153652 |
| Social Media and the Struggle for Society | Nancy K Baum | Baym observes that “social media” became a defining label only once companies harnessed everyday social… | 2056305115580477 | |
| Soylent Is People, and WEIRD Is White: Biological Anthropology, Whiteness, and the Limits of the WEIRD | Jenny L Davis, Katherine BH Clancy | The article examines how the widespread reliance on WEIRD populations in quantitative research in anthropology… | 10.1146/annurev-anthro-102218-011133 | |
| The Bases of Social Power | Bertram Raven, John RP French | Initially proposed in 1959 and elaborated over time, French and Raven’s framework categorizes power in… | 978-0879442309 | |
| The Essence of Innocence: Consequences of Dehumanizing Black Children | Brooke Allison Lewis Di Leone, Carmen Maria Culotta, Matthew Christian Jackson, NAtalie Ann DiTomasso, Phillip Atiba Goff | This study examined whether Black boys are afforded the same assumptions of innocence and protection… | 10.1037/a0035663 | |
| The Filter Bubble: What the internet is hiding from you | Eli Pariser | Pariser reveals how the rise of algorithmic personalization—where online services predict what information will most… | 9780141969923 | |
| The Law of Group Polarization | Cass R Sunstein | This working paper lays out the dynamics and consequences of group polarization, where group members’… | John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Working Paper No. 91, 1999 | |
| The Online Disinhibition Effect | John Suler | This foundational article from Suler explores why individuals often act differently online than in person,… |  | 10.1089/1094931041291295 |
| The Psychology of the Internet | Patricia Wallace | Drawing on decades of psychological research, Wallace examines how the Internet influences cognition, communication, and… | 9781107437326 | |
| The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion | Jonathan Haidt | Haidt synthesizes research from social psychology, anthropology, and evolutionary biology to present a model of… | 978-0307377906 | |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of… |  | 9123951508 |
| This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of Human Obsession | Daniel J Levitin | In This Is Your Brain on Music, Levitin bridges scientific research with engaging narrative to… |  | 9780452288522 |
| Triangulating the Self: Identity Processes in a Connected Era | Jenny L Davis | In the context of pervasive digital connectivity, Davis investigates how people navigate the negotiation of… | 10.1002/symb.123 | |
| Twitter and Teargas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest | Zeynep Tufecki | In Twitter and Tear Gas, Zeynep Tufekci explores the profound ways social media and internet… | 978-0-300-21512-0 |
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