Social Sciences: Academic Discipline — Prolific Citations Library

Explore 5 peer-reviewed papers in Social Sciences (2022–2026). Academic research using Prolific for high-quality human data collection.

This page lists 5 peer-reviewed papers in the discipline of Social Sciences in the Prolific Citations Library, a curated collection of research powered by high-quality human data from Prolific.

Papers (5 of 5)

Toward Measuring Geographical Belongingness in a Mobile, Hybrid Globe – Development of a Place-Belongingness Scale Among Immigrants

Authors: H Mohseni, T Kujala, J Silvennoinen

Year: 2026

Published in: SPRINGER

Institution: University of Jyväskylä

Research Area: Migration studies, Social indicators, Psychometrics, Quantitative social science methods

Discipline: Social sciences

Developed and validated a multidimensional place-belongingness scale to assess immigrants' sense of belonging to geographic locations, identifying four factors: feeling at home, accepted, empowered, and secure.

Methods: Survey data from 270 immigrants worldwide analyzed using exploratory factor analysis.

Key Findings: The subjective sense of place-belongingness, decomposed into four factors: feeling at home, feeling accepted, feeling empowered, and feeling secure.

Sample Size: 270
Consumer engagement with brands' COVID-19 messaging on social media: the role of perceived brand-social issue fit and brand opportunism

Authors: J Mundel, J Yang

Year: 2025

Published in: Journal of Interactive Advertising, 2021 - Taylor & Francis

Institution: Arizona State University, Loyola University

Research Area: Consumer Behavior, Social Media Marketing, COVID-19 Studies

Discipline: Marketing, Social Sciences

Brands with strong perceived fit between their products and COVID-19 messaging showed higher consumer engagement and positive attitudes, while those with lower perceived fit faced negative evaluations due to perceptions of opportunism.

Methods: Analyzed consumer responses to Instagram ads using perceived brand-social issue fit as a determinant of ad evaluations, brand attitudes, and engagement intentions.

Key Findings: Consumer responses, ad evaluations, brand attitudes, engagement intentions, and perceived brand opportunism based on fit between product type and COVID-19 messaging.

DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15252019.2021.1958274#

Citations: 29
AI can help people feel heard, but an AI label diminishes this impact

Authors: Y Yin, N Jia, CJ Wakslak

Year: 2024

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of ..., 2024 - pnas.org

Institution: University of Southern California Los Angeles

Research Area: Human-AI Interaction, Social Perception of AI, Media Effects

Discipline: Social Sciences

AI responses make people feel more heard and are better at emotional support compared to humans, but labeling responses as AI diminishes this effect.

Methods: Experiment and follow-up study to assess recipient reactions to AI vs. human-generated responses and determine emotional support efficacy.

Key Findings: The degree to which recipients feel heard, emotion detection accuracy, and third-party ratings of emotional support quality.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2319112121

Citations: 201
Crowdsourcing Academic Online Research on Prolific

Authors: Eyal Peer

Year: 2024

Published in: CAMBRIDGE

Institution: Hebrew University, University of Cambridge

Research Area: Crowdsourcing, Research Methodology in Behavioral and Social Sciences

Discipline: Social, Behavioral Sciences

Citations: 7
Social media regulation, third-person effect, and public views: A comparative study of the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Mexico

Authors: M Chung, J Wihbey

Year: 2022

Published in: New Media & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com

Research Area: Communication and Media Studies, Political Science, or International Relations (Comparative Studies)

Discipline: Social Sciences, Humanities

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221122996

Citations: 24