2025
journal article
Conde J.; Whiskeyman A.
international journal of intelligence and counterintelligence
While warfare has always had a cognitive dimension, the exponential expansion of digital information combined with the deliberate targeting and exploitation of adversary perceptual and cognitive-process vulnerabilities now enables precision shaping, disruptio…
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2025
journal article
Lahmann H.; Custers B.; Scott B.I.
ethics and information technology
This article analyses ideas to use AI-supported systems to counter ‘cognitive warfare’ and critically examines the implications of such systems for fundamental rights and values. After explicating the notion of ‘cognitive warfare’ as used in contemporary publ…
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2025
journal article
Lahmann H.; Custers B.; Scott B.I.
ethics and information technology
This article analyses ideas to use AI-supported systems to counter ‘cognitive warfare’ and critically examines the implications of such systems for fundamental rights and values. After explicating the notion of ‘cognitive warfare’ as used in contemporary publ…
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2025
report
Jolivet R.B.
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2025
journal article
Lipińska M.; Jemielniak D.
journal of language and politics
The article focuses on anti-Ukrainian narratives spread on Twitter. We performed a Thick Big Data analysis of words and hashtags connected with anti-Ukrainian narratives. We collected 16,700 tweets from 25 January 2023 to 22 February 2023, focusing on the mos…
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2025
journal article
Vykhodets R.S.
vestnik rudn. international relations
By now, it has been widely acknowledged that the global processes of digitalization, which began approximately in the second quarter of the twentieth century, have led to a radical rethinking of the theoretical and methodological foundations of contemporary c…
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2025
journal article
Hameleers M.
journal of communication
Despite the potential of visual disinformation to deceive people on pressing socio-political issues, we currently lack an understanding of how online visual disinformation (de)legitimizes partisan truth claims at times of war. As an important next step in dis…
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2025
journal article
Yun M.; Kim E.
the korean society of private security
In contemporary multi-domain warfare, the rapid advancement of emerging technologies have elevated cognitive warfare as a decisive mode of conflict. Within this domain, the human brain itself functions simul-taneously as a weapon, a target, and the battlespac…
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2025
journal article
Rickli J.-M.; Vllasi G.
connections
This article examines the shift in international security from traditional threat-centric models to risk-based approaches, focusing on the role of emerging technologies in shaping perceptions and responses. While offering significant benefits, emerging techno…
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2025
preprint
Rushing B.; Umeokolo M.; Xu S.
us air force academy
Cyber cognitive attacks leverage disruptive innovations (DIs) to exploit psychological biases and manipulate decision-making processes. Emerging technologies, such as AI-driven disinformation and synthetic media, have accelerated the scale and sophistication…
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2025
journal article
Wong W.
international political science abstracts
The rise of AI-driven voter disinformation and its impact on democracies is increasingly concerning. The existing literature raises serious concerns that extend beyond the scope of elections to include the broader impacts of AI misuse on democratic systems. T…
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2025
blog post
Dugoin-Clément C.
the conversation
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2025
journal article
Crum J.
neurosci biobehav rev.
Cognitive security aims to understand and defend against information-based threats affecting human cognition. It explores factors influencing susceptibility and resilience to misleading information and proposes a framework for understanding cognitive (in)secu…
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2025
journal article
Beattie P.; Sherstoboeva E.
political psychology
What mass publics know about foreign affairs is of great importance in international politics. Knowledge and ignorance probabilistically delimit the range of opinions likely to form on foreign affairs issues. Military strategists understand the importance of…
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2025
journal article
Yun M.; Kim E.
hansei university
The Russia–Ukraine war and the Israel–Hamas/Iran confrontation have accelerated global awareness of the cognitive domain as an emerging arena of security competition centered on cognitive warfare. Accordingly, governments and academic communities have sought…
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2025
journal article
Kefeli I.F.; Vykhodets R.S.; Plebanek O.V.
journal of globalization studies
The idea is substantiated that the advent of the Anthropocene epoch as a modern stage of global history and global evolution, in all its diversity of natural and socio-economic trends, has led to the aggravation of global risks (environmental, geopolitical, e…
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2025
preprint
Luberisse J.
Human verification under adversarial information flow operates as a cost-bounded decision procedure constrained by working memory limits and cognitive biases. We introduce the Verification Cost Asymmetry (VCA) coefficient, formalizing it as the ratio of expec…
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2025
blog post
Pereira D.
oodaloop
The new front in great power competition is not cyber or space, but cognition. Beijing and Moscow are systematically weaponizing perception – deploying artificial intelligence, disinformation, and psychological operations to erode trust in institutions, frac…
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2025
other
Ditrych O.; Jontén M.; Kovalčíková N.
european union institute for security studies
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2025
journal article
杨峰; 侯勇光
journal of chengdu university (social science)
Cognitive warfare has become the new frontier of strategic competition between countries and has profoundly changed the traditional mode of ideological offense and defense. With the development of artificial intelligence technology, cognitive warfare has tran…
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