Academic Work
Georgia Turner, Ian Anderson (joint first author), and Luisa Fassi (2025). “The Need for Transparency Standards in Social Media Industry-Academia Research Collaborations”. PNAS.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501819122
Ian Anderson & Wendy Wood (2025). Overestimates of Social Media Addiction are Common but Costly. Scientific Reports.
Full paper, open access: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-27053-2
Stefan Blancha, Ian Anderson, & Raymond Mar (2024). Tension in attention: Hypervigilance helps explain why marginalization leads to doomscrolling. Psychology of Popular Media.
Full Paper available upon request here
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.
“The Anatomy of Twitter Habits” (Dissertation) with Wendy Wood. Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/824nb
Published Projects:
“Habit Transfer: How Prior Social Media Habits Impact Users’ Behavior in New Platform Contexts” with Lisa Rhee, Julian Unkel, Muniba Saleem & Joe Bayer. Under Revision at Communication Research
Projects Under Review:
Working Papers:
Science of Online Argumentation with Ketika Garg and Dean Mobbs
Toxic Alignment in Online Conversations Lead to Neuropsychological Consequences for Social Media Users with Ketika Garg, Bo Zhang, Swati Pandita, and Ketika Garg
“Social Media Tracking, Social Media Habits, and Adolescent Well-Being” with Amy Orben, Georgia Turner, Luisa Fassi, and the CERES Lab. 3 papers being written for submission
“Social Media Habits of Misinformation Spreaders on Twitter” with Luca Luceri, Wendy Wood, and Emilio Ferrara. Data analysis ongoing.