Brittany I Davidson

Biographic Data

ID316707
NAMEBrittany I Davidson
GIVEN NAMESBrittany I
FAMILY NAMEDavidson
SIGNATUREDAVIDSON B I
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Bath
ORCID0000-0001-9886-9043
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Online Signals of Extremist Mobilization

    Open AccessOli Brown, Laura G E Smith et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2026

    Psychological theories of mobilization tend to focus on explaining people’s motivations for action, rather than mobilization (“activation”) processes. To investigate the online behaviors associated with mobilization, we compared the online communications data of 26 people who subsequently mobilized to right-wing extremist action and 48 people who held similar extremist views but did not mobilize ( N = 119,473 social media posts). In a three-part …

  • Good job reporting this!”: Examining psychological needs and community building in YouTube conspiracy narratives

    Open AccessDarja Wischerath, Lukasz Piwek et al.ARTICLEPolitical Psychology2026

    The proliferation of conspiracy theories online has tangible offline consequences, both on an individual and collective level. Conspiracy narratives have been associated with reduced belief in democracy, the rise of populist parties, and can act as a radicalization multiplier in such contexts. These narratives capitalize on pre‐existing beliefs and grievances and add urgency to act through a narrative of imminent danger. Previous research has pro…

  • Internet Memes as Stabilizers of Conspiracy Culture: A Cognitive Anthropological Analysis

    Open AccessEmily Godwin, Brittany I Davidson et al.ARTICLESocial Media + Society2025Cited by: 1References: 41

    Internet memes have emerged as the de facto language of the internet, where standardized memetic templates and characters distill and communicate narratives in simple, shareable formats. While prior research has highlighted their broad appeal as they traverse diverse audiences, their cultural function within online communities has received less attention. To investigate this function, we draw on cognitive anthropological conceptualizations of cul…

  • Rage Against the Machine: Exploring Violence and Emotion in Conspiracy Narratives on Parler

    Open AccessDarja Wischerath, Lukasz Piwek et al.ARTICLENew Media & Society2024References: 50

    The mainstreaming of conspiracy narratives has been associated with a rise in violent offline harms, from harassment, vandalism of communications infrastructure, assault, and in its most extreme form, terrorist attacks. Group-level emotions of anger, contempt, and disgust have been proposed as a pathway to legitimizing violence. Here, we examine expressions of anger, contempt, and disgust as well as violence, threat, hate, planning, grievance, an…

  • Platform-controlled social media APIs threaten open science

    Open AccessBrittany I Davidson, Darja Wischerath et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2023Cited by: 3References: 12

  • Fuzzy constructs in technology usage scales

    Open AccessBrittany I Davidson, Heather Shaw et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2022

    The mass adoption of digital technologies raises questions about how they impact people and society. Associations between technology use and negative correlates (e.g., depression and anxiety) remain common. However, pre-registered studies have failed to replicate these findings. Regardless of direction, many designs rely on psychometric scales that claim to define and quantify a construct associated with technology engagement. These often suggest…

  • The problem with the internet: An affordance-based approach for psychological research on networked technologies

    Open AccessOli Brown, Olivia Brown et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2022

    The internet is often viewed as the source of a myriad of benefits and harms. However, there are problems with using this notion of "the internet" and other high-level concepts to explain the influence of communicating via everyday networked technologies on people and society. Here, we argue that research on social influence in computer-mediated communication (CMC) requires increased precision around how and why specific features of networked tec…

  • Oral hygiene effects verbal and nonverbal displays of confidence

    Paul Taylor, Faye Banks et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Social Psychology2021

    Although oral hygiene is known to impact self-confidence and self-esteem, little is known about how it influences our interpersonal behavior. Using a wearable, multi-sensor device, we examined differences in consumers' individual and interpersonal confidence after they had or had not brushed their teeth. Students (N = 140) completed nine one-to-one, 3-minute "speed dating" interactions while wearing a device that records verbal, nonverbal, and mi…

  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of discrepancies between logged and self-reported digital media use

    Open AccessDouglas A Parry, Brittany I Davidson et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2021

  • Shape Shifting Across Social Media

    Open AccessBrittany I Davidson, Adam N JoinsonARTICLESocial Media + Society2021Cited by: 3References: 46

    Individuals change and adapt their behavior according to their social situation (e.g., transitioning from work to home). However, how does this shape shifting of self-presentations and identity translate into various online platforms? This exploratory study utilizes a novel and mixed methodological approach to better understand user behavior across social media platforms. We interviewed 22 participants and employed a repertory grid technique to r…

  • Do smartphone usage scales predict behavior?

    Open AccessDavid A Ellis, Brittany I Davidson et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019