Lazer Lab

People influence each other when they interact to solve problems. Such social influence introduces...

Very large spatio-temporal lattice data are becoming increasingly common across a variety of disciplines. However, estimating interdependence...

Conventional wisdom assumes that increased censorship will strictly decrease access to information. We...

Prior work established the benefits of server-recorded user engagement measures (e.g. clickthrough rates) for improving the results of...

The rise of fake news highlights the erosion of long-standing institutional bulwarks against...

We examine the social antecedents of contributing to campaigns, with a particular focus on the role of population density and social networking...

Recent studies show the remarkable power of fine-grained information disclosed by users on social network sites to infer users’ personal...

Real-world institutions dealing with social dilemma situations are based on mechanisms that are rarely implemented without flaw. Usually real-...