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Jeffrey T. Hancock

Jeffrey T. Hancock

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Psychology

D-Index
66
Citations
24663
World Ranking
2656
National Ranking
1526

Overview

Jeffrey T. Hancock is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within the social sciences, particularly intersecting with psychology and communication. Hancock's work frequently addresses issues related to misinformation, social media dynamics, and the impacts of technology on society and individuals.

Their research contributions include a range of peer-reviewed publications in diverse venues. Notable papers include:

  • "Zoom Exhaustion & Fatigue Scale," 2021, published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports
  • "Nonverbal Mechanisms Predict Zoom Fatigue and Explain Why Women Experience Higher Levels than Men," 2021, published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Credibility Perceptions and Detection Accuracy of Fake News Headlines on Social Media: Effects of Truth-Bias and Endorsement Cues," 2020, published in Communication Research
  • "Human heuristics for AI-generated language are flawed," 2023, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The Social Impact of Deepfakes," 2021, published in Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking

Frequent collaborators in Hancock's work include:

  • Jeremy N. Bailenson
  • Angela Y. Lee
  • Xun Liu
  • Mufan Luo
  • Ryan C. Moore

Publication venues where Hancock has a significant presence include:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Social Media + Society
  • Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Their primary fields of study are within Social Sciences and Psychology. More specifically, the subfields encompassing their research consist of Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Communication, and Literature and Literary Theory.

Hancock's research addresses core topics such as:

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Their work integrates interdisciplinary approaches, combining insights from social psychology, communication studies, and artificial intelligence to examine how digital technologies affect human behavior and societal processes. Hancock's research often involves experimental and quantitative methods to explore phenomena such as credibility perception, digital fatigue, and the social consequences of emerging technologies like deepfakes and AI-generated language.

Best Publications

  • Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks

    Adam Kramer;Jamie Elizabeth Guillory;Jeffrey Hancock

  • Mirror, mirror on my Facebook wall: effects of exposure to Facebook on self-esteem.

    Amy L. Gonzales;Jeffrey T. Hancock

  • Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination

    Myle Ott;Yejin Choi;Claire Cardie;Jeffrey T. Hancock

  • Separating Fact From Fiction: An Examination of Deceptive Self-Presentation in Online Dating Profiles

    Catalina L. Toma;Jeffrey T. Hancock;Nicole B. Ellison

  • On Lying and Being Lied to: A Linguistic Analysis of Deception in Computer-Mediated Communication.

    Jeffrey T. Hancock;Lauren E. Curry;Saurabh Goorha;Michael Woodworth

  • Short‐term psychodynamic psychotherapies for common mental disorders

    Allan A Abbass;Jeffrey T Hancock;Julie Henderson;Steve R Kisely

  • Psychological, Relational, and Emotional Effects of Self-Disclosure After Conversations With a Chatbot.

    Annabell Ho;Jeff Hancock;Adam S Miner

  • Self-Affirmation Underlies Facebook Use

    Catalina L. Toma;Jeffrey T. Hancock

  • Language Style Matching as a Predictor of Social Dynamics in Small Groups

    Amy L. Gonzales;Jeffrey T. Hancock;James W. Pennebaker

  • Impression Formation in Computer-Mediated Communication Revisited: An Analysis of the Breadth and Intensity of Impressions

    Jeffrey T. Hancock;Philip J. Dunham

  • Expressing emotion in text-based communication

    Jeffrey T. Hancock;Christopher Landrigan;Courtney Silver

  • Profile as promise: A framework for conceptualizing veracity in online dating self-presentations:

    Nicole B. Ellison;Jeffrey T. Hancock;Catalina L. Toma

  • Putting Your Best Face Forward: The Accuracy of Online Dating Photographs

    Jeffrey T. Hancock;Catalina L. Toma

  • AI-Mediated Communication: Definition, Research Agenda, and Ethical Considerations

    Jeffrey T Hancock;Mor Naaman;Karen Levy

  • Looks and Lies: The Role of Physical Attractiveness in Online Dating Self-Presentation and Deception

    Catalina L. Toma;Jeffrey T. Hancock

  • Deception and design: the impact of communication technology on lying behavior

    Jeffrey T. Hancock;Jennifer Thom-Santelli;Thompson Ritchie

  • Identity Shift in Computer-Mediated Environments

    Amy L. Gonzales;Jeffrey T. Hancock

  • The truth about lying in online dating profiles

    Jeffrey T. Hancock;Catalina Toma;Nicole Ellison

  • Negative Deceptive Opinion Spam

    Myle Ott;Claire Cardie;Jeffrey T. Hancock

  • The Priming Effects of Avatars in Virtual Settings

    Jorge Peña;Jeffrey T. Hancock;Nicholas A. Merola

  • The Disclosure–Intimacy Link in Computer‐Mediated Communication: An Attributional Extension of the Hyperpersonal Model

    L. Crystal Jiang;Natalie N. Bazarova;Jeffrey T. Hancock

  • Estimating the prevalence of deception in online review communities

    Myle Ott;Claire Cardie;Jeff Hancock

  • What Lies Beneath: The Linguistic Traces of Deception in Online Dating Profiles

    Catalina L. Toma;Jeffrey T. Hancock

  • An Analysis of Socioemotional and Task Communication in Online Multiplayer Video Games

    Jorge Peña;Jeffrey T. Hancock

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy N. Bailenson
Jeremy N. Bailenson Stanford University
Byron Reeves
Byron Reeves Stanford University
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Joseph B. Walther
Joseph B. Walther University of California, Santa Barbara
Maria Hartwig
Maria Hartwig John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Pär Anders Granhag
Pär Anders Granhag University of Gothenburg
Victoria Talwar
Victoria Talwar McGill University
Ray Bull
Ray Bull University of Derby
Samantha Mann
Samantha Mann University of Portsmouth
Li Fei-Fei
Li Fei-Fei Stanford University

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