Jeffrey T. Hancock

23.1k total citations · 12 hit papers
220 papers, 13.8k citations indexed

About

Jeffrey T. Hancock is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeffrey T. Hancock has authored 220 papers receiving a total of 13.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 87 papers in Social Psychology and 51 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Jeffrey T. Hancock's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (44 papers), Impact of Technology on Adolescents (36 papers) and Deception detection and forensic psychology (35 papers). Jeffrey T. Hancock is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (44 papers), Impact of Technology on Adolescents (36 papers) and Deception detection and forensic psychology (35 papers). Jeffrey T. Hancock collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Sweden. Jeffrey T. Hancock's co-authors include Jamie Guillory, Catalina L. Toma, Adam Kramer, Amy Gonzales, Nicole B. Ellison, Mor Naaman, Mufan Luo, Myle Ott, Claire Cardie and Philip J. Dunham and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Jeffrey T. Hancock

211 papers receiving 13.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks
    2014 2.0k citations Adam Kramer, Jamie Guillory et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Mirror, Mirror on my Facebook Wall: Effects of Exposure to Facebook on Self-Esteem
    2010 617 citations Jeffrey T. Hancock et al. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking profile →
  3. Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination
    2011 444 citations Myle Ott, Claire Cardie et al. profile →
  4. Psychological, Relational, and Emotional Effects of Self-Disclosure After Conversations With a Chatbot
    2018 342 citations Jeffrey T. Hancock et al. profile →
  5. Self-Affirmation Underlies Facebook Use
    2013 226 citations Jeffrey T. Hancock et al. profile →
  6. Self-disclosure and social media: motivations, mechanisms and psychological well-being
    2019 218 citations Mufan Luo, Jeffrey T. Hancock profile →
  7. Zoom Exhaustion & Fatigue Scale
    2021 140 citations Géraldine Fauville, Mufan Luo et al. Computers in Human Behavior Reports profile →
  8. Human heuristics for AI-generated language are flawed
    2023 134 citations Jeffrey T. Hancock et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. Nonverbal Mechanisms Predict Zoom Fatigue and Explain Why Women Experience Higher Levels than Men
    2021 128 citations Géraldine Fauville, Mufan Luo et al. profile →
  10. People, places, and time: a large-scale, longitudinal study of transformed avatars and environmental context in group interaction in the metaverse
    2023 90 citations Eugy Han, Jeffrey T. Hancock et al. profile →
  11. A digital media literacy intervention for older adults improves resilience to fake news
    2022 87 citations Ryan C. Moore, Jeffrey T. Hancock Scientific Reports profile →
  12. Working With AI to Persuade: Examining a Large Language Model's Ability to Generate Pro-Vaccination Messages
    2023 79 citations Jeffrey T. Hancock et al. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jeffrey T. Hancock United States 63 6.9k 3.5k 3.2k 2.3k 1.7k 220 13.8k
Judee K. Burgoon United States 69 7.1k 1.0× 9.7k 2.8× 2.8k 0.9× 2.5k 1.1× 2.1k 1.2× 270 18.2k
S. Shyam Sundar United States 59 7.6k 1.1× 2.2k 0.6× 2.9k 0.9× 2.8k 1.3× 385 0.2× 248 13.0k
Robert E. Kraut United States 78 11.0k 1.6× 5.4k 1.5× 2.6k 0.8× 8.2k 3.6× 1.7k 1.0× 277 25.8k
Sara Kiesler United States 78 12.6k 1.8× 8.6k 2.5× 3.3k 1.0× 8.8k 3.8× 1.6k 0.9× 232 28.5k
Joseph B. Walther United States 46 8.8k 1.3× 5.9k 1.7× 1.1k 0.3× 6.6k 2.9× 986 0.6× 112 15.9k
Clifford Nass United States 55 4.8k 0.7× 6.5k 1.9× 4.9k 1.5× 951 0.4× 471 0.3× 170 14.9k
Michał Kosiński United Kingdom 40 3.2k 0.5× 2.1k 0.6× 2.2k 0.7× 738 0.3× 2.0k 1.2× 81 9.4k
David Stillwell United Kingdom 35 3.0k 0.4× 2.0k 0.6× 1.9k 0.6× 707 0.3× 1.8k 1.0× 76 8.2k
Nicole B. Ellison United States 52 22.4k 3.3× 2.5k 0.7× 1.6k 0.5× 12.7k 5.6× 2.5k 1.5× 106 30.2k
Munmun De Choudhury United States 52 2.7k 0.4× 3.6k 1.0× 2.5k 0.8× 908 0.4× 1.2k 0.7× 206 8.7k

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All Works

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Lu, Yingdan, et al.. (2025). Contextualizing Misinformation: A User-Centric Approach to Linguistic and Topical Patterns in News Consumption. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 9(7). 1–40.
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Han, Eugy, et al.. (2024). The influence of spatial dimensions of virtual environments on attitudes and nonverbal behaviors during social interactions. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 95. 102269–102269. 5 indexed citations
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Vaid, Sumer S., Lara Kroencke, Sanaz Talaifar, et al.. (2024). Variation in social media sensitivity across people and contexts. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 6571–6571. 9 indexed citations
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Lee, Angela Y., Ryan C. Moore, & Jeffrey T. Hancock. (2024). Building resilience to misinformation in communities of color: Results from two studies of tailored digital media literacy interventions. New Media & Society. 27(6). 3545–3576. 3 indexed citations
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Fauville, Géraldine, Mufan Luo, Anna Carolina Muller Queiroz, et al.. (2023). Video-conferencing usage dynamics and nonverbal mechanisms exacerbate Zoom Fatigue, particularly for women. Computers in Human Behavior Reports. 10. 100271–100271. 36 indexed citations
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Lee, Angela Y., Nicole B. Ellison, & Jeffrey T. Hancock. (2023). To use or be used? The role of agency in social media use and well-being. Frontiers in Computer Science. 5. 9 indexed citations
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Markowitz, David M., et al.. (2023). Contextual considerations for deception production and detection in forensic interviews. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1134052–1134052. 4 indexed citations
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Moore, Ryan C., Jeffrey T. Hancock, & Jeremy N. Bailenson. (2023). From 65 to 103, Older Adults Experience Virtual Reality Differently Depending on Their Age: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Study in Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking. 26(12). 886–895. 6 indexed citations
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Hancock, Jeffrey T., et al.. (2022). Folk Theories of Online Dating: Exploring People’s Beliefs About the Online Dating Process and Online Dating Algorithms. Social Media + Society. 8(2). 18 indexed citations
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Grossman, Shelby, et al.. (2021). Introducing the Journal of Online Trust and Safety. 1(1). 3 indexed citations
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Hancock, Jeffrey T., et al.. (2021). Will You Go on a Date with Me? Predicting First Dates from Linguistic Traces in Online Dating Messages. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 41(4). 371–395. 2 indexed citations
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Oakley‐Girvan, Ingrid, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of a Mobile Device Survey System for Behavioral Risk Factors (SHAPE): App Development and Usability Study. JMIR Formative Research. 3(1). e10246–e10246. 6 indexed citations
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Klenk, Michael & Jeffrey T. Hancock. (2019). Autonomy and Online Manipulation. Internet Policy Review. 1. 7 indexed citations
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Tong, Stephanie Tom, et al.. (2018). Online Daters' Willingness to Use Recommender Technology for Mate Selection Decisions.. Conference on Recommender Systems. 45–52. 5 indexed citations
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Kramer, Adam, Jamie Guillory, & Jeffrey T. Hancock. (2014). Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(24). 8788–8790. 1967 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ott, Myle, Claire Cardie, & Jeffrey T. Hancock. (2013). Negative Deceptive Opinion Spam. North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 497–501. 191 indexed citations
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Peña, Jorge, et al.. (2006). Avatar Color and Social Identity Effects On Attitudes and Group Dynamics in Online Video Games. Advances in Skin & Wound Care. 32(11). 1–26. 4 indexed citations
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Hancock, Jeffrey T., et al.. (2004). Lies in Conversation: An Examination of Deception Using Automated Linguistic Analysis. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 26(26). 21 indexed citations

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