Bennett Kleinberg

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Publications

For all academic publications (peer-reviewed papers and preprints), see:

List last updated November 2025.

  • 2025

    Effective faking of verbal deception detection with target‐aligned adversarial attacks

    Kleinberg, B., Loconte, R., & Verschuere, B.

    Legal and Criminological Psychology, lcrp.70001DOI

  • 2025

    Examining embedded lies through computational text analysis

    Loconte, R., & Kleinberg, B.

    Scientific Reports, 15(1), 26482DOI

  • 2025

    A Filtering Response Time Concealed Information Test for Searching for Relevant Concealed Items

    Lukács, G., Kleinberg, B., Fekete, A., & Matsuda, I.

    Applied Cognitive Psychology, 39(5), e70114DOI

  • 2025

    Capturing causal claims: A fine-tuned text mining model for extracting causal sentences from social science papers

    Norouzi, R., Kleinberg, B., Vermunt, J. K., & Van Lissa, C. J.

    Research Synthesis Methods, 1–18DOI

  • 2025

    Cognitive phantoms in large language models through the lens of latent variables

    Peereboom, S., Schwabe, I., & Kleinberg, B.

    Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 4, 100161DOI

  • 2025

    Scientific publications that use promotional language in the abstract receive more citations and public attention

    Stavrova, O., Kleinberg, B., Evans, A. M., & Ivanović, M.

    Communications Psychology, 3(1), 118DOI

  • 2025

    Conflicts of Interest in Published NLP Research 2000–2024

    Bosten, M., & Kleinberg, B.

    (No. arXiv:2502.16218). arXivDOI

  • 2025

    The Feature Understandability Scale for Human-Centred Explainable AI: Assessing Tabular Feature Importance

    Rossberg, N., Kleinberg, B., O’Sullivan, B., Longo, L., & Visentin, A.

    (No. arXiv:2510.07050). arXivDOI

  • 2025

    Translating the Grievance Dictionary: A psychometric evaluation of Dutch, German, and Italian versions

    van der Vegt, I., Kleinberg, B., Miotto, M., & Festor, J.

    (No. arXiv:2505.07495). arXivDOI

  • 2025

    How Dutch legal professionals assess statement credibility: Evidence from a survey and an analysis of 518 court rulings on sexual abuse

    Verschuere, B., Kleinberg, B., Van Kolfschooten, M., Bolhoven, L., & Rassin, E.

    Open Science FrameworkDOI

  • 2024

    Quali metodi per la valutazione dei Large Language Models (LLM)? Riflessioni sull’uso di un approccio neuropsicologico e sullo sviluppo di una psicometria dei LLM

    Loconte, R., Kleinberg, B., & Monaro, M.

    Giornale italiano di psicologia, 3, 579–584DOI

  • 2024

    Expressions of uncertainty in online science communication hinder information diffusion

    Stavrova, O., Kleinberg, B., Evans, A. M., & Ivanović, M.

    PNAS Nexus, 3(10), pgae439DOI

  • 2024

    Large language models in cryptocurrency securities cases: Can a GPT model meaningfully assist lawyers?

    Trozze, A., Davies, T., & Kleinberg, B.

    Artificial Intelligence and LawDOI

  • 2024

    Detecting DeFi securities violations from token smart contract code

    Trozze, A., Kleinberg, B., & Davies, T.

    Financial Innovation, 10(1), 78DOI

  • 2024

    SOBR: A Corpus for Stylometry, Obfuscation, and Bias on Reddit

    Emmery, C., Miotto, M., Kramp, S., & Kleinberg, B.

    In N. Calzolari, M.-Y. Kan, V. Hoste, A. Lenci, S. Sakti, & N. Xue (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) (pp. 14967–14983). ELRA and ICCLACL

  • 2024

    Trying to be human: Linguistic traces of stochastic empathy in language models

    Kleinberg, B., Zegers, J., Festor, J., Vida, S., Präsent, J., Loconte, R., & Peereboom, S.

    (No. arXiv:2410.01675). arXivDOI

  • 2024

    From cryptomarkets to the surface web: Scouting eBay for counterfeits

    Soldner, F., Plum, F., Kleinberg, B., & Johnson, S. D.

    (Version 1). arXivDOI

  • 2024

    Beyond the sample: Individual differences in psychological responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

    Zegers, J., & Kleinberg, B.

    DOI

  • 2024

    rgpt3: Making requests from R to the GPT API

    Kleinberg, B.

    (Version 1.0) [Computer software]DOI

  • 2023

    Infections in Biological and Targeted Synthetic Drug Use in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Where do We Stand? A Scoping Review and Meta-analysis

    Bergmans, B. J. M., Gebeyehu, B. Y., Van Puijenbroek, E. P., Van Deun, K., Kleinberg, B., Murk, J.-L., & De Vries, E.

    Rheumatology and TherapyDOI

  • 2023

    Testing human ability to detect ‘deepfake’ images of human faces

    Bray, S. D., Johnson, S. D., & Kleinberg, B.

    Journal of Cybersecurity, 9(1), tyad011DOI

  • 2023

    Counterfeits on dark markets: A measurement between Jan-2014 and Sep-2015

    Soldner, F., Kleinberg, B., & Johnson, S. D.

    Crime Science, 12(1), 18DOI

  • 2023

    Of degens and defrauders: Using open-source investigative tools to investigate decentralized finance frauds and money laundering

    Trozze, A., Davies, T., & Kleinberg, B.

    Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, 46, 301575DOI

  • 2023

    A multi-modal panel dataset to understand the psychological impact of the pandemic

    Van Der Vegt, I., & Kleinberg, B.

    Scientific Data, 10(1), 537DOI

  • 2023

    Proceed with caution: On the use of computational linguistics in threat assessment

    van der Vegt, I., Kleinberg, B., & Gill, P.

    Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 1–9DOI

  • 2023

    The use-the-best heuristic facilitates deception detection

    Verschuere, B., Lin, C.-C., Huismann, S., Kleinberg, B., Willemse, M., Mei, E. C. J., Van Goor, T., Löwy, L. H. S., Appiah, O. K., & Meijer, E.

    Nature Human Behaviour, 7(5), 718–728DOI

  • 2023

    Large Language Models respond to Influence like Humans

    Griffin, L., Kleinberg, B., Mozes, M., Mai, K., Vau, M. D. M., Caldwell, M., & Mavor-Parker, A.

    Proceedings of the First Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations (SICon 2023) , 15–24DOI

  • 2023

    Use of LLMs for Illicit Purposes: Threats, Prevention Measures, and Vulnerabilities

    Mozes, M., He, X., Kleinberg, B., & Griffin, L. D.

    (No. arXiv:2308.12833). arXivarXiv

  • 2023

    Textwash: Automated, Learning-Based Text Anonymisation

    Mozes, M., & Kleinberg, B.

    [Computer software]GitHub

  • 2022

    A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being

    Hoogeveen, S., Sarafoglou, A., Aczel, B., Aditya, Y., Alayan, A. J., Allen, P. J., Altay, S., Alzahawi, S., Amir, Y., Anthony, F.-V., Kwame Appiah, O., Atkinson, Q. D., Baimel, A., Balkaya-Ince, M., Balsamo, M., Banker, S., Bartoš, F., Becerra, M., Beffara, B., … Wagenmakers, E.-J.

    Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1–47DOI

  • 2022

    Confounds and overestimations in fake review detection: Experimentally controlling for product-ownership and data-origin

    Soldner, F., Kleinberg, B., & Johnson, S. D.

    PLOS ONE, 17(12), e0277869DOI

  • 2022

    Explaining prosecution outcomes for cryptocurrency-based financial crimes

    Trozze, A., Davies, T., & Kleinberg, B.

    Journal of Money Laundering ControlDOI

  • 2022

    Cryptocurrencies and future financial crime

    Trozze, A., Kamps, J., Akartuna, E. A., Hetzel, F. J., Kleinberg, B., Davies, T., & Johnson, S. D.

    Crime Science, 11(1), 1DOI

  • 2022

    Assessment procedures in anonymously written threats of harm and violence

    van der Vegt, I., Gregory, P., van der Meer, B. B., Yang, J., Kleinberg, B., & Gill, P.

    Journal of Threat Assessment and ManagementDOI

  • 2022

    Predicting author profiles from online abuse directed at public figures

    van der Vegt, I., Kleinberg, B., & Gill, P.

    Journal of Threat Assessment and ManagementDOI

  • 2022

    Who is GPT-3? An exploration of personality, values and demographics

    Miotto, M., Rossberg, N., & Kleinberg, B.

    Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science (NLP+CSS) , 218–227ACL

  • 2022

    Identifying Human Strategies for Generating Word-Level Adversarial Examples

    Mozes, M., Kleinberg, B., & Griffin, L.

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022 , 6118–6126ACL

  • 2022

    Explainable Verbal Deception Detection using Transformers

    Ilias, L., Soldner, F., & Kleinberg, B.

    DOI

  • 2022

    Textwash—Automated open-source text anonymisation

    Kleinberg, B., Davies, T., & Mozes, M.

    arXiv:2208.13081DOI

  • 2022

    Cryptocurrencies: Boons and curses for fraud prevention

    Kamps, J., Trozze, A., & Kleinberg, B.

    In Y. Hanoch & S. Wood (Eds.), A fresh look at fraud: Theoretical and applied perspectives. Routledge

  • 2022

    Trends in online consumer fraud: A data science perspective

    Soldner, F., Kleinberg, B., & Johnson, S.

    In Y. Hanoch & S. Wood (Eds.), A fresh look at fraud: Theoretical and applied perspectives. Routledge

  • 2022

    Understanding Lone-Actor Violence through Linguistic Analysis

    Van der Vegt, I., Kleinberg, B., & Gill, P.

    In J. C. Holzer, A. J. Dew, P. R. Recupero, & P. Gill (Eds.), Lone-actor terrorism: An integrated framework. Oxford University Press

  • 2022

    Linguistic Threat Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities

    Van der Vegt, I., Kleinberg, B., & Gill, P.

    Crest Security Review, 13(Winter 2022), 12–13

  • 2022

    netanos: Named Entity-based Text ANonymization for Open Science

    Mozes, M., & Kleinberg, B.

    [Computer software]npm

  • 2021

    How humans impair automated deception detection performance

    Kleinberg, B., & Verschuere, B.

    Acta Psychologica, 213, 103250DOI

  • 2021

    A repeated-measures study on emotional responses after a year in the pandemic

    Mozes, M., van der Vegt, I., & Kleinberg, B.

    Scientific Reports, 11(1), 23114DOI

  • 2021

    Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis

    Schweinsberg, M., Feldman, M., Staub, N., […] Kleinberg, B. […] Luis Uhlmann, E.

    Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesDOI

  • 2021

    Online influence, offline violence: Language use on YouTube surrounding the ‘Unite the Right’ rally

    van der Vegt, I., Mozes, M., Gill, P., & Kleinberg, B.

    Journal of Computational Social Science, 4(1), 333–354DOI

  • 2021

    The Grievance Dictionary: Understanding threatening language use

    van der Vegt, I., Mozes, M., Kleinberg, B., & Gill, P.

    Behavior Research MethodsDOI

  • 2021

    Contrasting Human- and Machine-Generated Word-Level Adversarial Examples for Text Classification

    Mozes, M., Bartolo, M., Stenetorp, P., Kleinberg, B., & Griffin, L.

    Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , 8258–8270ACL

  • 2021

    Frequency-Guided Word Substitutions for Detecting Textual Adversarial Examples

    Mozes, M., Stenetorp, P., Kleinberg, B., & Griffin, L.

    Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume , 171–186ACL

  • 2021

    No Intruder, no Validity: Evaluation Criteria for Privacy-Preserving Text Anonymization

    Mozes, M., & Kleinberg, B.

    arXiv:2103.09263 [Cs]arXiv

  • 2021

    Policy brief: Cryptocurrencies and future crime (Dawes Centre for Future Crime)

    Akartuna, E. A., Hetzel, F. J., & Kleinberg, B.

    [Policy Brief]

  • 2021

    A Complex Matter: Examining Reporting on Terrorism in the UK

    Royal United Services Institute & (RUSI) for Defence and Security Studies.

    RUSI

  • 2021

    neatStats: Neat and Painless Statistical Reporting

    Lukács, G., van Doorn, J., & Kleinberg, B.

    [Computer software]CRAN

  • 2020

    The temporal evolution of a far-right forum

    Kleinberg, B., van der Vegt, I., & Gill, P.

    Journal of Computational Social ScienceDOI

  • 2020

    Response Time Concealed Information Test on Smartphones

    Lukács, G., Kleinberg, B., Kunzi, M., & Ansorge, U.

    Collabra: Psychology, 6(1), 4DOI

  • 2020

    “Spotting the signs” of trafficking recruitment online: Exploring the characteristics of advertisements targeted at migrant job-seekers

    Volodko, A., Cockbain, E., & Kleinberg, B.

    Trends in Organized CrimeDOI

  • 2020

    Women Worry About Family, Men About the Economy: Gender Differences in Emotional Responses to COVID-19

    van der Vegt, I., & Kleinberg, B.

    Social Informatics, 12467 , 397–409DOI

  • 2020

    Measuring Emotions in the COVID-19 Real World Worry Dataset

    Kleinberg, B., van der Vegt, I., & Mozes, M.

    Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 at ACL 2020. ACL-NLP-COVID19 2020, Online. · 2020, JulyACL

  • 2020

    Manipulating emotions for ground truth emotion analysis

    Kleinberg, B.

    arXiv:2006.08952 [Cs]arXiv

  • 2020

    Violent music vs violence and music: Drill rap and violent crime in London

    Kleinberg, B., & McFarlane, P.

    arXiv:2004.04598 [Cs]arXiv

  • 2020

    The Temporal Evolution of a Far-Right Forum

    van der Vegt, I., Kleinberg, B., & Gill, P.

    GNETGNET

  • 2020

    Political Drillin? What machine learning tells us about the reality of drill music

    McFarlane, P., & Kleinberg, B.

    Policing Insight · 2020, March 9Policing Insight

  • 2019

    Being accurate about accuracy in verbal deception detection

    Kleinberg, B., Arntz, A., & Verschuere, B.

    PLOS ONE, 14(8), e0220228DOI

  • 2019

    Shedding Light on Terrorist and Extremist Content Removal

    van der Vegt, I., Gill, P., Macdonald, S., & Kleinberg, B.

    Global Research Network on Terrorism and TechnologyRUSI

  • 2019

    Uphill from here: Sentiment patterns in videos from left- and right-wing YouTube news channels

    Soldner, F., Ho, J. C., Makhortykh, M., van der Vegt, I., Mozes, M., & Kleinberg, B.

    Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science. NAACL

  • 2019

    Examining UK drill music through sentiment trajectory analysis

    Kleinberg, B., & McFarlane, P.

    arXiv:1911.01324 [Cs]. 15. Kleinberg , B., van der Vegt, I., Arntz, A., & Verschuere, B. (2019). Detecting deceptive communication through linguistic concreteness. PsyArXivarXivDOI

  • 2019

    Detecting Deceptive Intentions: Possibilities for Large-Scale Applications

    Kleinberg, B., Arntz, A., & Verschuere, B.

    In T. Docan-Morgan (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Deceptive Communication (pp. 403–427). Springer International PublishingDOI

  • 2019

    Cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps

    Kamps, J., & Kleinberg, B.

    BioMedCentral - On Society · 2019, January 22

  • 2019

    Being Honest About Deception Detection: Between popular idea and scientific evidence

    Kleinberg, B., & Verschuere, B.

    Aviation Security International Magazine · 2019, April 16

  • 2019

    Making sensitive text data accessible for computational social science—SAGE Ocean | Big Data, New Tech, Social Science

    Kleinberg, B., Mozes, M., & Davies, T.

    SAGE Ocean · 2019, July 18SAGE Ocean

  • 2019

    What does it mean to anonymize text? — SAGE Ocean | Big Data, New Tech, Social Science

    Kleinberg, B., Mozes, M., & Davies, T.

    SAGE Ocean · 2019, November 28SAGE Ocean

  • 2018

    To the moon: Defining and detecting cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps

    Kamps, J., & Kleinberg, B.

    Crime Science, 7(1), 18

  • 2018

    Using named entities for computer-automated verbal deception detection

    Kleinberg, B., Mozes, M., Arntz, A., & Verschuere, B.

    Journal of Forensic Sciences, 63(3), 714–723

  • 2018

    Automated verbal credibility assessment of intentions: The model statement technique and predictive modeling

    Kleinberg, B., Van Der Toolen, Y., Vrij, A., Arntz, A., & Verschuere, B.

    Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32(3), 354–366

  • 2018

    The first direct replication on using verbal credibility assessment for the detection of deceptive intentions

    Kleinberg, B., Warmelink, L., Arntz, A., & Verschuere, B.

    Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32(5), 592–599

  • 2018

    Using more different and more familiar targets improves the detection of concealed information

    Suchotzki, K., De Houwer, J., Kleinberg, B., & Verschuere, B.

    Acta Psychologica, 185, 65–71

  • 2018

    Identifying the sentiment styles of YouTube’s vloggers

    Kleinberg, B., Mozes, M., & van der Vegt, I.

    3581–3590ACL

  • 2018

    Automatic Detection of Fake News

    Pérez-Rosas, V., Kleinberg, B., Lefevre, A., & Mihalcea, R.

    Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics , 3391–3401ACL

  • 2018

    Detecting Concealed Information on a Large Scale: Possibilities and Problems

    Kleinberg, B., van der Toolen, Y., Arntz, A., & Verschuere, B.

    In J. P. Rosenfeld (Ed.), Detecting Concealed Information and Deception: Recent Developments (p. 377)

  • 2017

    Web-based text anonymization with Node.js: Introducing NETANOS (Named entity-based Text Anonymization for Open Science)

    Kleinberg, B., & Mozes, M.

    The Journal of Open Source Software, 2(14)

  • 2017

    An investigation on the detectability of deceptive intent about flying through verbal deception detection

    Kleinberg, B., Nahari, G., Arntz, A., & Verschuere, B.

    Collabra: Psychology, 3(1)

  • 2017

    Familiarity-related fillers improve the validity of reaction time-based memory detection

    Lukács, G., Kleinberg, B., & Verschuere, B.

    Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6(3), 295–305

  • 2017

    Assessing autobiographical memory: The web-based autobiographical Implicit Association Test

    Verschuere, B., & Kleinberg, B.

    Memory, 25(4), 520–530

  • 2017

    NETANOS—Named entity-based text anonymization for open science

    Kleinberg, B., Mozes, M., van der Toolen, Y., & Verschuere, B.

    OSF Preprints, 10

  • 2016

    The role of motivation to avoid detection in reaction time-based concealed information detection

    Kleinberg, B., & Verschuere, B.

    Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 5(1), 43–51

  • 2016

    Less is more? Detecting lies in veiled witnesses

    Leach, A.-M., Ammar, N., England, D. N., Remigio, L. M., Kleinberg, B., & Verschuere, B. J.

    Law and Human Behavior, 40(4), 401

  • 2016

    ID-Check: Online Concealed Information Test Reveals True Identity

    Verschuere, B., & Kleinberg, B.

    Journal of Forensic Sciences, 61, S237–S240

  • 2016

    Using the verifiability of details as a test of deception: A conceptual framework for the automation of the verifiability approach

    Kleinberg, B., Nahari, G., & Verschuere, B.

    Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Deception Detection , 18–25

  • 2015

    Memory Detection 2.0: The First Web-Based Memory Detection Test

    Kleinberg, B., & Verschuere, B.

    PLOS ONE, 10(4), e0118715DOI

  • 2015

    Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science

    Open Science Collaboration.

    Science, 349(6251), aac4716

  • 2015

    RT-based memory detection: Item saliency effects in the single-probe and the multiple-probe protocol

    Verschuere, B., Kleinberg, B., & Theocharidou, K.

    Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4(1), 59–65

  • n.d.

    Targeted shifting of attitudes towards women with LLM-generated arguments

    Kleinberg, B., Griffin, L. D., Rottweiler, B., Miotto, M., Rossberg, N., Praesent, J., & Gal, J.

    In Preparation

  • n.d.

    Learning to convince from another AI: reinforcement-based argument generation

    Kleinberg, B., Präsent, J., Gal, J., & Griffin, L. D.

    In Preparation