Large language models (LLMs) undergo 'alignment'so that they better reflect human values
or preferences, and are safer or more useful. However, alignment is intrinsically difficult …

Large language models (LLMs) are used to generate content for a wide range of tasks, and
are set to reach a growing audience in coming years due to integration in product interfaces …

Online communities have become a central part of the internet. Understanding what
motivates users to join these communities, and how they affect them and others, spans …

We propose a framework integrating insights from computational social science, political,
and social psychology to explain how extreme polarization can occur in deeply divided …

This article aims to advance research on interaction rituals (IR) and technology. Its starting
point is interaction ritual theory, a key micro-sociological approach that postulates IRs as the …

Involuntary celibates, or incels, have been of heightened interest to scholars and
practitioners due to their ongoing engagement in misogynistic and violent discourse. The …

Social media users are often exposed to cute content that evokes emotional reactions and
influences them to feel or behave certain ways. The cuteness phenomenon in social media …

As a case, we focus on what has been described as the most extreme space of online hate,
Stormfront. org. Established in the mid-1990s, Stormfront is a White Supremacist and neo …

Digital media platforms have been implicated in the recent rise of far-right extremism. This
study proposes that these platforms afford emotional processes that lie at the core of far-right …

Background: The state of evidence-based transgender healthcare in the United States has
been put at risk by the spread of misinformation harmful to transgender people. Health …