Dr Laura Joyner
Name | Dr Laura Joyner |
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Job title | "Research Fellow, Suicide Prevention Research" |
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Primary appointment | Psychology |
Email address | L.Joyner@mdx.ac.uk |
ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5035-6932 |
Contact category | Academic staff |
Biography
Biography Laura is a Research Fellow in Suicide Prevention Research currently working on the project "Effectiveness of Surveillance Technologies to Prevent Suicides at High-Risk Locations". Following a career working in public relations and digital marketing she received her MSc Psychology from the University of East London in 2020. She then completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Westminster in 2023, with the thesis "Why Do People Spread Disinformation on Social Media? The Role of Social Identity and Perceived Morality". Laura is broadly interested in the influence of technology, social contexts, and morals on judgements and behaviour.
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Moral leniency towards belief-consistent disinformation may help explain its spread on social media
Joyner, L., Buchanan, T. and Yetkili, O. 2023. Moral leniency towards belief-consistent disinformation may help explain its spread on social media. PLoS ONE. 18 (3). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281777Why do people share political information and misinformation online? Developing a bottom-up descriptive framework
Perach, R., Joyner, L., Husbands, D. and Buchanan, T. 2023. Why do people share political information and misinformation online? Developing a bottom-up descriptive framework. Social Media + Society. 9 (3), pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231192032The Online Behaviour Taxonomy: a conceptual framework to understand behaviour in computer-mediated communication
Kaye, L., Rousaki, A., Joyner, L., Barrett, L. and Orchard, L. 2022. The Online Behaviour Taxonomy: a conceptual framework to understand behaviour in computer-mediated communication. Computers in Human Behavior. 137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107443Individual differences in sharing false political information on social media: deliberate and accidental sharing, motivations and positive schizotypy
Buchanan, T., Perach, R., Husbands, D., Tout, A., Kostyuk, E., Kempley, J. and Joyner, L. 2024. Individual differences in sharing false political information on social media: deliberate and accidental sharing, motivations and positive schizotypy. PLoS ONE. 19 (6). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304855123
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