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Joseph Stubbersfield

Observed names: Joseph M. Stubbersfield, Joseph Michael Stubbersfield, Stubbersfield, J M., Stubbersfield, Joseph, Stubbersfield, Joseph M., Stubbersfield, Joseph Michael
ORCID: 0000-0001-8966-4679
Observed ORCID: 0000-0001-8966-4679
OpenAlex ID: A5012407920
Large language models show human-like content biases in transmission chain experiments
2023 · Alberto Acerbi, Joseph M. Stubbersfield · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 179
Serial killers, spiders and cybersex: Social and survival information bias in the transmission of urban legends
2014 · Joseph M. Stubbersfield, Jamshid J. Tehrani, et al. · British Journal of Psychology · 149
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Cognitive Evolution and the Transmission of Popular Narratives: A Literature Review and Application to Urban Legends
2017 · Joseph M. Stubbersfield, Emma G. Flynn, et al. · Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture · 59
Chicken Tumours and a Fishy Revenge: Evidence for Emotional Content Bias in the Cumulative Recall of Urban Legends
2017 · Joseph M. Stubbersfield, Jamshid J. Tehrani, et al. · Journal of Cognition and Culture · 52
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Content biases in three phases of cultural transmission: A review
2022 · Joseph M. Stubbersfield · Culture and Evolution · 43
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Cognitive Evolution and the Transmission of Popular Narratives: A Literature Review and Application to Urban Legends
2017 · Joseph M. Stubbersfield, Emma G. Flynn, et al. · Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture · 36
Faking the News: Intentional Guided Variation Reflects Cognitive Biases in Transmission Chains Without Recall
2018 · Joseph Stubbersfield, Jamshid Tehrani, et al. · Cultural Science Journal · 35
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An experimental investigation into the transmission of antivax attitudes using a fictional health controversy
2018 · Ángel V. Jiménez, Joseph M. Stubbersfield, et al. · Social Science & Medicine · 34
Expect the Unexpected? Testing for Minimally Counterintuitive (MCI) Bias in the Transmission of Contemporary Legends: A Computational Phylogenetic Approach
2012 · Joseph Stubbersfield, Jamshid Tehrani · Social Science Computer Review · 33
Negativity bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theory tweets during the 2020 US election
2023 · Mason Youngblood, Joseph M. Stubbersfield, et al. · Humanities and Social Sciences Communications · 27
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Social transmission favours the ‘morally good’ over the ‘merely arousing’
2019 · Joseph M. Stubbersfield, Lewis G. Dean, et al. · Humanities and Social Sciences Communications · 20
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Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy: Results from a national survey
2022 · Luke J. Matthews, Sarah A. Nowak, et al. · American Anthropologist · 15
Curious about threats: Morbid curiosity and interest in conspiracy theories in US adults
2023 · Coltan Scrivner, Joseph M. Stubbersfield · British Journal of Psychology · 13
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Carving Stories at their Natural Joints
2024 · Edgar Dubourg, Valentin Thouzeau, et al. · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 12
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The HCT Index: a typology and index of health conspiracy theories with examples of use
2021 · Joseph M. Stubbersfield, Tom Widger, et al. · Wellcome Open Research · 2
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The HCT Index: A Typology and Index of Health Conspiracy Theories with examples of use
2019 · Joseph Michael Stubbersfield, Tom Widger, et al. · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2
Content-Based Learning Biases
2024 · Joseph M. Stubbersfield · Springer eBooks · 1
Carving stories at their natural joints.
2026 · Edgar Dubourg, Valentin Thouzeau, et al. · Psychological Review
Carving Stories at their Natural Joints
2026 · Edgar Dubourg, Valentin Thouzeau, et al. · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)
Carving Stories at their Natural Joints
2026 · Edgar Dubourg, Valentin Thouzeau, et al. · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)
Code and Data for paper "Quantifying the rate and amplitude of cultural change in populations of AI agents "
2026 · Carrignon, Simon, Stubbersfield, Joseph Michael, et al. · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Cultural transmission bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theories on Twitter during the 2020 US election
2023 · Mason Youngblood, Olivier Morin, et al. · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)
Steve Stewart-Williams. The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
2019 · Joseph M. Stubbersfield · Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture
Data and scripts for: Social transmission favors the ‘morally good’ over the ‘merely arousing’
2019 · Stubbersfield, Joseph, Dean, Lewis, et al. · Harvard Dataverse
Content Biases in the Cultural Transmission and Evolution of Urban Legends
2014 · Joseph Stubbersfield · Durham e-Theses (Durham University)
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Works count: 34
Citation count: 715
H-index: 13
I10-index: 14
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