Public opinion is shaped in significant part by online content, spread via social media and
curated algorithmically. The current online ecosystem has been designed predominantly to …

The ability to 'sense'the social environment and thereby to understand the thoughts and
actions of others allows humans to fit into their social worlds, communicate and cooperate …

As individuals and political leaders increasingly interact in online social networks, it is
important to understand the dynamics of emotion perception online. Here, we propose that …

In this paper, we present Polarized message-passing (PMP), a novel paradigm to
revolutionize the design of message-passing graph neural networks (GNNs). In contrast to …

We develop a conceptual framework for studying collective adaptation in complex socio-
cognitive systems, driven by dynamic interactions of social integration strategies, social …

Online misinformation is believed to have contributed to vaccine hesitancy during the Covid-
19 pandemic, highlighting concerns about social media's destabilizing role in public life …

It is widely believed that the demands of living in large, complexly bonded social groups
played a key role in the evolution of human cognition. This review focuses on a critical but …

All of the policies adopted or proposed so far to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus
require immediate and extensive behavioral change. However, changing behavior is difficult …

Large-scale social networks are thought to contribute to polarization by amplifying people's
biases. However, the complexity of these technologies makes it difficult to identify the …

There are longstanding questions about the origins and ancestry of the Picts of early
medieval Scotland (ca. 300–900 CE), prompted in part by exotic medieval origin myths, their …