Publications

2025

Feuerriegel, S., Maarouf, A., Bär, D., Geissler, D., Schweisthal, J., Pröllochs, N, Robertson, C. E., Rathje, S., Hartmann, J., Mohammad, S., Netzer, O., Siegel, A., Plank, B., Van Bavel, J. (2025). Using natural language processing to analyze text data in behavioral science. Nature Reviews Psychology. 1-16. 

2024 

Robertson, C. E., del Rosario, K., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2024). Inside the Funhouse Mirror Factory: How Social Media Distorts Perceptions of Norms. Current Opinions in Psychology. 

Rathje, S., Mirea, D. M., Sucholutsky, I., Marjieh, R., Robertson, C. E., & Van Bavel, J.J. (2024) GPT is an effective tool for multilingual psychological text analysis. PNAS.

Robertson, C. E., Shariff, A, & Van Bavel, J. J. (2024). Morality in the Anthropocene: The Perversion of Compassion and Punishment in the Online World. PNAS Nexus, 3(6).

Robertson, C. E., Akles, M.* & Van Bavel, J. J. (2024) Pre Registered Replication of Moral Hypocrisy: Social Groups and the Flexibility of Virtue. Psychological Science.

*Undergraduate Mentee

Robertson, C. E., del Rosario, K., Rathje, S., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2024). Changing the incentive structure of social media may reduce online proxy failure and proliferation of negativity. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 47, e81.

Van Bavel, J. J., Robertson, C. E., del Rosario, K., Rasmussen, J., & Rathje, S. (2024) Social Media and Morality. Annual Review of Psychology. 75, 311-340..

2023

Rathje, S., Robertson, C. E., Brady, W. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2023). People think that social media platforms do (but should not) amplify divisive content. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 17456916231190392.

Koppel, L.*, Robertson, C. E.*, Doell, K. C., Javeed, A. M., Rasmussen, J., Rathje, S., Vlasceanu, M., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2023). Individual-level solutions may support system-level change – if they are internalized as part of one’s social identity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

*These authors contributed equally.

Robertson, C. E.*, Pröllochs, N*, Schwarzenegger, K., Parnamets, P., Van Bavel, J. J. &, Feuerriegel, S. (2023). Negativity drives online news consumption. Nature Human Behaviour. 1-11.

*These authors contributed equally.

*Altmetric Score: 2444

Harris, E. A., Rathje, S., Robertson, C. E., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2023). The Role of Media in Political Polarization| The SPIR Framework of Social Media and Polarization: Exploring the Role of Selection, Platform Design, Incentives, and Real-World Context. International Journal of Communication, 17, 20.

Azevedo, F., Pavlović, T., Rêgo, G. G., Ay, F. C., Gjoneska, B., Etienne, T. W., ...Robertson, C. E., … & Huang, G. (2023). Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. Nature Scientific Data, 10(1), 272.

Robertson, C. E., Pretus, C., Rathje, S., Harris, E., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2023). How Social Identity Shapes Conspiratorial Belief. Current Opinions in Psychology. 101423.

2022

Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D., Ray, J. L., Robertson, C. E., & Ungson, N. D. A. (2022). How social identity tunes moral cognition. In N. Ellemers, S. Pagliaro & F. van Nunspeet (Eds.). Routledge Handbook of the Psychology of Morality.

Harris, E. A., Parnamets, P., Brady, W. J., Robertson, C. E., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2022). The role of generalizability in moral and political psychology. Brain and Behavioral Sciences. 45e19

Pavlović, T., Azevedo, F., De, K., Riaño-Moreno, J. C., Maglić, M., Gkinopoulos, T., ...Robertson, C. E., ... & Keudel, O. (2022). Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning. PNAS Nexus, 1(3), pgac093.

Van Bavel, J. J., Cichocka, A., Capraro, V., Sjåstad, H., Nezlek, J. B., Pavlović, T., ...Robertson, C. E., … & Jørgensen, F. J. (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1-14.

Harris, E., Parnamets, P., Sternisko, A., Robertson, C. E., & Van Bavel, J.J. (2022). The psychology and neuroscience of partisanship. In D. Osborne & C. Sibley (Eds.). Cambridge Handbook of Political Psychology.

2021 & Earlier

Van Bavel, J. J., Rathje, S., Harris, E., Robertson, C. E., & Sternisko, A. (2021). How social media shapes polarization. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 25(11) 913-916

Van Bavel, J., Sternisko, A., Harris, E., & Robertson, C. E. (2020). The social function of rationalization: An identity perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, E52.

Van Bavel, J., Reinero, D. A., Harris, E., Robertson, C. E., & Pärnamets, P. (2020). Breaking Groupthink: Why Scientific Identity and Norms Mitigate Ideological Epistemology. Psychological Inquiry, 31(1), 66-72.

Emberson, L. L., Boldin, A. M., Robertson, C. E., Cannon, G., & Aslin, R. M. (2019). Expectation Affects Repetition Suppression in Infancy. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 37, 100597.