This project focuses on political cognition. Based on cognitive psychology and political psychology and relying on a variety of methods, such as biographical interviews, focus groups, online experiments and cognitive quasi-experiments, we focus on the mechanisms of information processing and memory underlying how people make sense of media and politics. Data collection has been ongoing since 2016.
Preprints
Academic Publications
- Wartime Media Monitor (WarMM-2022): A Study of Information Manipulation on Russian Social Media during the Russia-Ukraine War. Chapter in Proceedings of the 7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (2023)
- Harnessing distrust: News, credibility heuristics, and war in an authoritarian regime (Political Communication, 2023)
- Propaganda, authoritarianism and Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Nature Human Behaviour, 2022)
- Making sense of the news in an authoritarian regime: Russian television viewers' reception of the Russia-Ukraine conflict (Europe-Asia Studies, 2022)
- Collective cognitive tasks as a method for studying political reasoning (Qualitative Psychology, 2022).
- News reception and authoritarian control in a hybrid media system: Russian TV viewers and the Russia-Ukraine conflict (Politics, 2021)
Media
- Putin has a ‘factchecking’ operation, and so do other dictators – but they use them to twist the truth (Guardian, 2024)
- How (not) to interpret Russian political talk shows (Moscow Times, 2022)
- Propaganda, political apathy, and authoritarianism in Russia (NYU Jordan Center Blog. 2022)
- Putin fans or Kremlin bots? War and mobilisation across Russian social media platforms (Re:Russia, 2022)
- Mobilising for war: State-controlled networks and war propaganda on Russian social media (Russia Post, 2022)
- In Russia, opinion polls are a political weapon (OpenDemocracy, 2022)
- How to sell a war to those who do not want it (King's College London, 2022)
- Conspiracy theory has gone mainstream in Russia. But how does it work? A Review of Ilya Yablokov's Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World (OpenDemocracy, 2018)