Detecting Malign Influence -- Misogyny, Women in Power, and Patterns of Social Media Harassment -- Stereotype Content Dictionary: A Semantic Space of 3 Million Words and Phrases Using Google News Word2Vec Embeddings -- Social Cybersecurity Analysis of the Telegram Information Environment During the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine -- The Dynamics of Political Narratives During the Russian Invasion of Ukraine -- Anger Breeds Controversy: Analyzing Controversy and Emotions on Reddit -- Building a healthier feed: Private location trace intersection driven feed recommendations -- Classifying Policy Issue Frame Bias in Philippine Online News -- Dismantling Hate: Understanding Hate Speech Trends Against NBA Athletes -- Feedback Loops and Complex Dynamics of Harmful Speech in Online Discussions -- Chirping Diplomacy: Analyzing Chinese Social-Cyber Maneuvers on Twitter -- Vulnerability Dictionary: Language Use During Times of Crisis and Uncertainty -- Tracking China's Cross-Strait Bot Networks Against Taiwan -- Assessing Media's Representation of Frustration Towards Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia -- Human Behavior Modeling -- Agent-Based Moral Interaction Simulations in Imbalanced Polarized Settings -- Investigating the Use of Belief Bias to Measure Acceptance of False Information -- Simulation of Stance Perturbations -- Integrating Human Factors into Agent-Based Simulation for Dynamic Phishing Susceptibility -- Designing Organizations of Human and Non-Human Knowledge Workers -- Modeling Human Actions in the Cart-Pole Game Using Cognitive and Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach -- CCTFv1: Computational Modeling of Cyber Team Formation Strategies -- Simulating Transport Mode Choices in Developing Countries -- User Identity Modeling to Characterize Communication Patterns of Domestic Extremists Behavior on Social Media -- Understanding Clique Formation in Social Networks - An Agent-Based Model of Social Preferences in Fixed and Dynamic Networks -- A Bayesian Approach of Predicting the Movement of Internally Displaced Persons -- Social-Cyber Behavior Modeling -- Few-Shot Information Operation Detection Using Active Learning Approach -- Dynamic Modeling and Forecasting of Epidemics Incorporating Age and Vaccination Status -- Inductive Linear Probing for Few-shot Node Classification -- Regression Chain Model for Predicting Epidemic Variables -- Physical Distancing and Mask Wearing Behavior Dataset Generator from CCTV Footage Using YOLOv8 -- Moving Beyond Stance Detection in Cross-cutting Communication Analysis -- Pandemic Personas: Analyzing Identity Signals in COVID-19 Discourse on Twitter.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2023, which was held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in September 2023. The 31 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Detecting malign influence; human behavior modeling; and social-cyber behavior modeling.