The rapid expansion of digital technologies is transforming the ways individuals perceive information, form opinions, interact with others, and participate in political life. Social media platforms, artificial intelligence systems, algorithmic recommendations, and digital communication environments are creating new conditions for political cognition, emotional engagement, and collective behavior. These developments raise fundamental questions about how technology influences individual psychology, social identities, political attitudes, and decision-making processes.
This Open Panel explores the intersection of neuroscience, political psychology, and digital transformation by examining how digital tools shape human cognition, emotions, attention, and patterns of political behavior. It investigates the psychological mechanisms behind online influence, political persuasion, polarization, information processing, and the formation of collective narratives in increasingly digital societies.
The panel welcomes theoretical, empirical, and interdisciplinary contributions addressing topics such as digital political psychology, neuroscience approaches to political behavior, AI-mediated communication, algorithmic influence, emotional dynamics in politics, cognitive biases, political identity formation, and the psychological consequences of digital environments.
By bringing together perspectives from political science, psychology, neuroscience, communication studies, and technology research, the panel seeks to advance understanding of how digital transformation is reshaping the relationship between human cognition and political processes, and how emerging technologies may influence the future of democratic participation and political behavior.