Almog Simchon

710 total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 219 citations indexed

About

Almog Simchon is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Almog Simchon has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 219 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Social Psychology, 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Almog Simchon's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (8 papers), Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (5 papers) and Media Influence and Health (4 papers). Almog Simchon is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (8 papers), Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (5 papers) and Media Influence and Health (4 papers). Almog Simchon collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United Kingdom and Germany. Almog Simchon's co-authors include Stephan Lewandowsky, Matthew Edwards, William J. Brady, Jay Joseph Van Bavel, Michael Gilead, David García, Jana Lasser, Tal Eyal, Maayan Katzir and Adam Sutton and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Nature Communications and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Almog Simchon

21 papers receiving 212 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The persuasive effects of political microtargeting in the age of generative artificial intelligence

2024 51 citations Almog Simchon, Matthew Edwards et al. PNAS Nexus profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Almog Simchon Israel	8	125	60	53	45	40	25	219
Jeffrey Martin Lees United States	4	204 1.6×	27 0.5×	76 1.4×	57 1.3×	42 1.1×	14	239
Cecilie S. Traberg United Kingdom	6	228 1.8×	65 1.1×	76 1.4×	16 0.4×	28 0.7×	8	265
Jens Bender Germany	11	157 1.3×	12 0.2×	36 0.7×	64 1.4×	15 0.4×	16	245
Eugenia Ha Rim Rho United States	7	101 0.8×	48 0.8×	64 1.2×	13 0.3×	9 0.2×	20	172
Rebecca Dredge Australia	7	150 1.2×	81 1.4×	57 1.1×	161 3.6×	6 0.1×	8	278
Caroline Bassett United Kingdom	7	63 0.5×	20 0.3×	25 0.5×	18 0.4×	12 0.3×	24	165
Rachel Hartman United States	5	99 0.8×	8 0.1×	39 0.7×	33 0.7×	27 0.7×	5	143
Adrienn Ujhelyi Hungary	6	126 1.0×	14 0.2×	46 0.9×	82 1.8×	6 0.1×	11	179
Berta Chulvi Spain	9	127 1.0×	162 2.7×	21 0.4×	123 2.7×	7 0.2×	18	301
Kimberly B. Rogers United States	9	143 1.1×	24 0.4×	8 0.2×	94 2.1×	21 0.5×	25	246

Countries citing papers authored by Almog Simchon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Almog Simchon

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Simchon, Almog, et al.. (2025). Warning people that they are being microtargeted fails to eliminate persuasive advantage. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 15–15. 3 indexed citations

Lasser, Jana, et al.. (2025). Different honesty conceptions align across US politicians' tweets and public replies. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1409–1409. 1 indexed citations

Simchon, Almog, et al.. (2025). A signal detection theory meta-analysis of psychological inoculation against misinformation. Current Opinion in Psychology. 67. 102194–102194. 1 indexed citations

Simchon, Almog, et al.. (2025). Elevated Power Promotes Prosocial Behavior More Than Elevated Status. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 391215366–391215366.

Simchon, Almog, et al.. (2025). Neural text embeddings in psychological research: A guide with examples in R.. Psychological Methods.

Simchon, Almog, et al.. (2025). Inoculation reduces social media engagement with affectively polarized content in the UK and US. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 11–11.

Simchon, Almog, et al.. (2025). Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(6). 1122–1133.

Simchon, Almog, Matthew Edwards, & Stephan Lewandowsky. (2024). The persuasive effects of political microtargeting in the age of generative artificial intelligence. PNAS Nexus. 3(2). pgae035–pgae035. 51 indexed citations breakdown →

Lewandowsky, Stephan, et al.. (2024). When liars are considered honest. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 28(5). 383–385. 2 indexed citations

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Nussinson, Ravit, Sari Mentser, Michael Gilead, et al.. (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). 58–83. 1 indexed citations

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Simchon, Almog & Michael Gilead. (2024). A psychologically informed approach to “actuarial” decision making.. Decision. 11(4). 700–707. 1 indexed citations

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Simchon, Almog, et al.. (2023). A computational text analysis investigation of the relation between personal and linguistic agency. Communications Psychology. 1(1). 5 indexed citations

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Simchon, Almog, Adam Sutton, Matthew Edwards, & Stephan Lewandowsky. (2023). Online reading habits can reveal personality traits: towards detecting psychological microtargeting. PNAS Nexus. 2(6). pgad191–pgad191. 7 indexed citations

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Lasser, Jana, et al.. (2023). From alternative conceptions of honesty to alternative facts in communications by US politicians. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(12). 2140–2151. 20 indexed citations

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Simchon, Almog, William J. Brady, & Jay Joseph Van Bavel. (2022). Troll and divide: the language of online polarization. PNAS Nexus. 1(1). pgac019–pgac019. 39 indexed citations

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Simchon, Almog, et al.. (2022). Parental Mentalizing During a Pandemic: Use of Mental-State Language on Parenting Social Media Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Clinical Psychological Science. 10(6). 1129–1150. 9 indexed citations

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Simchon, Almog, et al.. (2020). Political depression? A big-data, multimethod investigation of Americans’ emotional response to the Trump presidency.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 149(11). 2154–2168. 13 indexed citations

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Katzir, Maayan, et al.. (2020). Differential effects of abstract and concrete processing on the reactivity of basic and self-conscious emotions. Cognition & Emotion. 35(4). 593–606. 15 indexed citations

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Cohen, Ariel, et al.. (2016). An Experimental Investigation of Epistemic Modal Adverbs and Adjectives. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. 20. 798–814. 1 indexed citations

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Kessler, Yoav, et al.. (2015). Updating visual working memory in the change detection paradigm. Journal of Vision. 15(9). 18–18. 8 indexed citations

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