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Cyberpsychology and Strategic Communication: An Integrated Cognitive Defense Framework for Countering Foreign Digital Propaganda

Author(s) Mükremin T. Rahman
Country Romania
Abstract Foreign digital propaganda exploits the same cognitive architecture that strategic communication was designed to persuade, making the two fields inseparable partners in contemporary information defense. This article synthesizes theory and empirical evidence from strategic communication and cyberpsychology to propose an integrated, four-layer cognitive defense framework for countering state-sponsored and state-aligned disinformation online. Drawing on the epidemiological model of misinformation susceptibility, inoculation theory, and evidence from randomized controlled trials of prebunking interventions, alongside computational studies of coordinated inauthentic behavior on platforms such as Twitter/X and Telegram, the article argues that effective counter-propaganda strategy must operate simultaneously at the perceptual, cognitive, social, and institutional levels. The proposed Layered Cognitive Defense Model (LCDM) integrates psychological inoculation, source-credibility signaling, network-level detection, and coordinated strategic messaging into a single analytic architecture. The article concludes that durable resilience against foreign influence operations depends less on debunking individual falsehoods after the fact and more on building anticipatory psychological and institutional immunity before exposure occurs. Implications for policy, platform governance, and future interdisciplinary research are discussed.
Keywords strategic communication, cyberpsychology, disinformation, foreign propaganda, inoculation theory, cognitive security, information warfare
Field Sociology > Philosophy / Psychology / Religion
Published In Volume 8, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On 2026-08-24
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i04.86421
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