Publications

Van der Linden, S., Simchon, A., & Lewandowsky, S. (2026). New research shows cognitive inoculation improves discernment of misinformation. Skeptical Inquirer, 55.

Teitelbaum, L., Saltz, E., Lewandowsky, S., & Simchon, A. (2025). Rhetorical features from social media predict real-world violent outcomes of manifestos. Preprint. [link]

Simchon, A., Zipori, T., Teitelbaum, L., Lewandowsky, S., & Van der Linden, S. (2025). A signal detection theory meta-analysis of psychological inoculation against misinformation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 60, 102194. [link]

Teitelbaum, L. & Simchon, A. (2025). Neural text embeddings in psychological research: A guide with examples in R. Psychological Methods. [link]

Aroyehun, S. T., Simchon, A., Carrella, F., Lasser, J., Lewandowsky, S., & Garcia, D. (2025). Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition. Nature Human Behaviour, 9(6), 1122-1133. [link]

Hadar, B., Simchon, A., Gilead, M., & Smith, P. K. (2025). Elevated power promotes prosocial behavior more than elevated status. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. [link]

Carrella, F., Aroyehun, S. T., Lasser, J., Simchon, A., Garcia, D., & Lewandowsky, S. (2025). Different honesty conceptions align across US politicians' tweets and public replies. Nature Communications, 16(1), 1409. [link]

Carrella, F., Simchon, A., Edwards, M., & Lewandowsky, S. (2025). Warning people that they are being microtargeted fails to eliminate persuasive advantage. Communications Psychology, 3(1), 15. [link]

Smith, F., Simchon, A., Holford, D., & Lewandowsky, S. (2025). Inoculation reduces social media engagement with affectively polarized content in the UK and US. Communications Psychology, 3(1), 11. [link]

Nussinson, R., Ram, H., Simchon, A., Hatzek, A., Navon, M., Dali, A., Shechter, A. et al. (2025). Cold and distant: Bi-directional associations between stimulus perceived temperature and its psychological distance and construal level. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 119, 104759. [link]

Simchon, A., Edwards, M., & Lewandowsky, S. (2024). The persuasive effects of political microtargeting in the age of generative artificial intelligence. PNAS Nexus, 3(2), pgae035. [link]

Lewandowsky, S., Garcia, D., Simchon, A., & Carrella, F. (2024). When liars are considered honest. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28(5), 383-385. [link]

Simchon, A. & Gilead, M. (2024). A psychologically informed approach to "actuarial" decision making. Decision. [link]

Nussinson, R., Rozenberg, I., Hatzek, A., Mentser, S., Navon, M., Gilead, M., & Simchon, A. (2024). The poetry of psychological distance: Bidirectional associations between stimulus speed and its psychological distance and construal level. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 127(1), 58. [link]

Teitelbaum, L. & Simchon, A. (2024). Data science for psychology: Natural language. [link]