
Ruth Elisabeth Appel
Ph.D. Student in Communication, admitted Autumn 2019
Masters Student in Computer Science, admitted Autumn 2023
Honors & Awards
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PhD Research Fellowship, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (09/2022 - present)
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SAP Stanford Graduate Fellowship in Science and Engineering, Stanford University (09/2019 - present)
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Summer Collaborative Research Fellowship, Stanford Impact Labs (06/2022 - 09/2022)
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Student Fellowship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (01/2014 - 06/2019)
Professional Affiliations and Activities
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Member, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) (2019 - Present)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Ruth Appel combines insights and methods from psychology, political science and computer science to develop and evaluate evidence-based personalized interventions to promote the social good. She is particularly passionate about preventing the spread of misinformation, encouraging political participation, promoting wellbeing and mental health, and addressing ethical challenges related to new technologies. Her current research projects include the 2020 Facebook Election Research Project and an online game to combat vaccine misinformation. She has also written about the ethics and privacy implications of new technologies.
Work Experience
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User Experience Research Intern, Google LLC (6/2020 - 9/2020)
Location
San Francisco, CA
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Associate in Research in the Health Division, Duke University, Center for Advanced Hindsight (2/2019 - 6/2019)
Location
Durham, NC, USA
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Intern in the Fifth Committee Section, Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations (9/2016 - 12/2016)
Location
New York, NY, USA
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Intern in the Strategy Department, Telekom Deutschland GmbH (4/2017 - 6/2017)
Location
Bonn, Germany
All Publications
- Partisan Conflict Over Content Moderation Is More Than Disagreement about Facts SSRN. 2023
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Privacy and ethics in the age of Big Data
The psychology of technology: Social science research in the age of Big Data
American Psychological Association. 2022: 379-420
View details for DOI 10.1037/0000290-012
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Psychological targeting in the age of Big Data
Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations
Elsevier. 2021: 193-222
View details for DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-819200-9.00015-6
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Privacy in the age of psychological targeting
Current Opinion in Psychology
2020; 31: 116–121
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.08.010