Academic Work

Ian Anderson and Wendy Wood, “Social Motivations’ Limited Influence on Habitual Behavior: Tests of Social Media Engagement,” Motivation Science. 9(2), 107–119.

Full paper: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-66902-001

Gizem Ceylan, Ian Anderson, and Wendy Wood (2023), “Sharing of Misinformation is Habitual, not Just Lazy or Biased,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(4).

Full Paper: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2216614120

Building and Breaking Social Media Habits. Joe Bayer, Ian Anderson, and Robert Tokunaga. Current Opinion on Psychology, 2022.

Full text available upon request here

Habits and the electronic herd: The psychology behind social media’s successes and failures with Wendy Wood. Consumer Psychology Review, 2021.

Full Article: Consumer Psychology Review

Preprint: PsyArxiv

Morally Homogeneous Networks and Radicalism with Atari, Mohammad; Mostafazadeh Davani, Aida; Kogon, Drew; Kennedy, Brendan; Saxena, Nripsuta; Anderson, Ian; Dehghani, Morteza. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2021.

Full Article: Preprint Version Available

Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results. (50th Author). Psychological Bulletin, 2020.

Published Projects:

“Tension in Attention: How Hypervigilance explains the link between Marginalization and Doomscrolling Behavior” with Stefan Blancha & Raymond Mar.

Projects Under Review:

Working Papers:

“The Anatomy of Twitter Habits” (Dissertation) with Wendy Wood. Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/824nb

“How Social Media Scrolling Habits Impact Users’ Reporting of Hateful Content” with Joe Bayer. Pre-Registered. Data Analysis ongoing.

“Social Media Habits of Misinformation Spreaders on Twitter” with Luca Luceri, Wendy Wood, and Emilio Ferrara. Data analysis ongoing.

“Effects of Social Media Habits on Adolescent Well-Being” with Amy Orben, Georgia Turner, Luisa Fassi, and the CERES Lab. Data collection underway.