Cognitive and Neuroscience Research in IS
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Item Detecting Persuasion Techniques in Online Propaganda: An AI-annotation Intervention(2025-01-07) Xiao, Lu; Xiao, Yimin; Da San Martino, Giovanni; Nakov, Preslav; Zheng, ChangzhouIn today's digital world, online propaganda poses a growing threat to society. To address this challenge, we explored the potential of a real-time training intervention. This intervention exposes people to manipulative text identified by AI and provides cognitive guidance to help them recognize and critically analyze similar cases. To examine whether people trust AI technology enough to read the annotations and follow them, we conducted a one-factor experiment. Our findings show no difference in training performance whether the annotations are claimed to be provided by domain experts or by AI. The intervention is effective in improving people’s ability to identify propagandistic texts and persuasion techniques, and performance varies by technique. We also found that people judge the texts based on one or more of three aspects: the content of the material, the author’s intention inferred from the material, and their personal ideology related to the topic of the material.Item Formation and Consequences of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward IS(2025-01-07) Bossler, Lukas Florian; Noeltner, Markus; Kroenung, JuliaAttitude is an important construct in several theories used in information systems research, such as Cognitive Dissonance Theory, the Theory of Planned Behavior, and Expectation-Disconfirmation Theory. However, explicit attitude measures in the form of deliberate self-reports are subject to several sources of distortion, including social desirability bias and self-representation bias. Research in psychology has sought to develop implicit measures that tap into an individual’s “true”, implicit attitude. We aim to provide the IS community with a conceptual introduction to implicit attitudes and introduce the Explicit/Implicit Attitude Consequence (EIAC) framework as a reference on the interactions between explicit and implicit attitudes and potential attitude consequences for future research.Item Introduction to the Minitrack on Cognitive and Neuroscience Research in IS(2025-01-07) Fjermestad, Jerry; Suchow, Jordan; Shen, Jia