Sonia Yanovsky

PhD Candidate in Social Psychology, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University

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Research

Peer-reviewed publications

2026Hartz, A., & Yanovsky, S. (2026). Psychotherapy populations that are overlooked due to sociopolitical bias. Current Opinion in Psychology, 71.2025Finkelstein, D., Yanovsky, S., Zucker, J., Jagdeep, A., Vasko, C., Jagdeep, A., Jussim, L., & Finkelstein, J. (2025). Information manipulation on TikTok and its relation to American users’ beliefs about China. Frontiers in Social Psychology, 2.2025Yanovsky, S. (2025). The (de)merits of radical progressivism: Commentary on Negy & Ferguson (2025). Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences, 4(2).2024Bass, M., Ross, A. R., Wolfson, B., Finkelstein, J., Yanovsky, S., Finkelstein, D., Stevens, S. T., Honeycutt, N., Paresky, P., Feinberg, A., Small, C. A., & Jussim, L. (2024). Foreign funding of U.S. higher education relates to sanctioning of scholars and antisemitism. Frontiers in Social Psychology, 2.
2024Rubinstein, R. S., Jussim, L., Mangracina, B., Shaw, K. M., Yanovsky, S., & Bennett, S. (2024). Perceived controllability of group membership does not moderate individuating information effects in implicit person perception. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 969382.

Manuscripts under review

Under reviewBork, N., Jussim, L., Finkelstein, D., Finkelstein, J., & Yanovsky, S. A theory of the social and political psychology of reciprocal radicalization. Theory & Society.

Manuscripts in preparation

In preparationYanovsky, S., Finkelstein, D., Honeycutt, N., Careem, A., Jussim, L., Finkelstein, J., Stevens, S., Bork, N., & Tabarovsky, I. Left-wing authoritarianism predicts endorsement of Soviet anti-American and antisemitic propaganda.
In preparationFinkelstein, D., Yanovsky, S., Jussim, L., & Finkelstein, J. DEI pedagogy and the hostile attribution bias.

Book chapters

In pressJussim, L., Yanovsky, S., Finkelstein, D., Fedida, O., Fihrer, G., Bork, N., McCaffree, K., Saide, A., & Finkelstein, J. (In press). Anti-prejudice extremism. In J. Forgas (Ed.), The psychology of extremism.
2026Finkelstein, D., Yanovsky, S., Dulburg, Z., Fihrer, G., Finkelstein, J., & Jussim, L. (2026). Disrupted trust: The digital erosion of civic norms. In J. Forgas (Ed.), The tribal mind: The psychology of trust. Routledge.
2025Jussim, L., Yanovsky, S., Honeycutt, N., Finkelstein, D., & Finkelstein, J. (2025). Academic misinformation and false beliefs. In J. Forgas (Ed.), The psychology of false beliefs: Collective delusions and conspiracy theories (pp. 171–187). Routledge.2024Jussim, L., Yanovsky, S., Careem, A., Honeycutt, N., & Finkelstein, D. (2024). Limitations, contestations, failures, and falsification of dramatic claims in intergroup relations. In T. Nelson (Ed.), Handbook of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. Taylor & Francis.2023Jussim, L., Honeycutt, N., Careem, A., Bork, N., Finkelstein, D., Yanovsky, S., & Finkelstein, J. (2023). The new book burners: Academic tribalism. In J. Forgas (Ed.), The tribal mind: The psychology of collectivism.

Public reports

2026Dulberg, Z., Yanovsky, S., Tabarovsky, I., Paresky, P., Finkelstein, D., Jussim, L., Nderitu, A., Moore, J., Finkelstein, J., Pearl, J., & Louis-Klein, A. (2026, April 10). Moral inversion and the rise of authoritarian sympathy. Network Contagion Research Institute.2025Jussim, L., Peterson, J. B., Moore, J., Finkelstein, J., Zucker, J., Finkelstein, D., Yanovsky, S., Goldenberg, A., Fedida, O., Firher, G., Lazarus, S., Jagdeep, A., & Jagdeep, A. (2025, March 13). Thy name in vain: How online extremists hijacked ‘Christ is King’. Network Contagion Research Institute.2024Finkelstein, J., Jussim, L., Fedida, O., Fihrer, G., Vasko, C., Zecher, M., Paresky, P., Goldenberg, A., McCann-Phillips, C., Hawley, T., Finkelstein, D., Yanovsky, S., Gamil, F., Horan, H., Nimak, A., Shankar, S., Stroud, S., & Viva, H. (2024, December 18). Killing with applause: Emergent permission structures for murder in the digital age. Network Contagion Research Institute.2024Goldenberg, A., McCann-Phillips, C., Jagdeep, A., Lazarus, S., Zecher, M., Fedida, O., Fihrer, G., Finkelstein, J., Gamil, F., Finkelstein, D., Yanovsky, S., Rajpal, R., & Jussim, L. (2024, November 1). The botification of the American mind. Network Contagion Research Institute.2024Finkelstein, J., Jussim, L., Farmer, J., Goldenberg, A., Zucker, J., Finkelstein, D., Yanovsky, S., Jagdeep, A., Jagdeep, A., Vasko, C., & Sohn, M. (2024). The CCP’s digital charm offensive. Network Contagion Research Institute.2024Jagdeep, A., Jagdeep, A., Lazarus, S., Zecher, M., Fedida, O., Fihrer, G., Vasko, C., Finkelstein, J., Finkelstein, D., Yanovsky, S., Jussim, L., Paresky, P., & Viswanathan, I. (2024, November 13). Instructing animosity: How DEI pedagogy produces the hostile attribution bias. Network Contagion Research Institute.2024Jussim, L., Finkelstein, D., Yanovsky, S., Goldenberg, A., Finkelstein, J., Selby, E., Benson, R., Patel, S., Glover, T., Vasko, C., Jagdeep, A., Abdallah, L., Harley, S., Ibrahim, C., Kalisch-Cellai, C., Karra, P., Mehta, A., & Rajpal, R. (2024). One click away: A study on the prevalence of non-suicidal self injury, suicide, and eating disorder content accessible by search engines.2023Small, C. A., Kolberner, W., Patterson, D., Reid-Ross, A., Yanovsky, S., Finkelstein, D., Sudhakar, P., Stevens, S. T., Honeycutt, N., Paresky, P., Bass, M., Goldenberg, A., Finkelstein, J., & Jussim, L. (2023). The corruption of the American mind. ISGAP & Network Contagion Research Institute.