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Volunteer Science offers people around the world to become involved in scientific projects on everything from collaboration to how people respond to natural disas

Volunteers Still Needed

We are still recruiting volunteers for studies on human behavior. We are interested in people from anywhere in the world. Link: https://volunteerscience.com/

Major Award for Dr. Briony Swire-Thompson

Briony Swire-Thompson has won a Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) from the NIH National Cancer Institute. The objective of this five year award is to help researchers transition to an independent position.

Trump's kingmaking plan threatens GOP's Congress hopes in 2022

David Lazer, University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences and Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, was interviewed by Bloomberg on the upcoming 2022 midterm elections and how the influence of the former President

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Lab People

Jonathan Green
Senior Research Scientist
Jason Radford
Senior Research Scientist
Briony Swire Thompson
Senior Research Scientist
Luke Horgan
Research Programmer
Kristin Lunz Trujillo
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Stefan McCabe
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Matthew Simonson
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Hanyu Chwe
PhD Student
Hong Qu
PhD Student
Alexi Quintana Mathe
PhD Student
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Recent Publications

COVID-19
Erroneous Consonance. How inaccurate beliefs about physician opinion influence COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
Publication date: 02/2023
Authors: Matt Motta, Timothy Callaghan, Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Alee Lockman

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have studied how Americans' attitudes toward health...

Participation incentives in a survey of international non-profit professionals
Publication date: 09/2022
Authors: Alauna Safarpour, Sarah Bush, Jennifer Hadden

Elite surveys are increasingly common in political science, but how best to motivate participation in...

Journal Article
Who Is “On Welfare”? Validating the Use of Conjoint Experiments to Measure Stereotype Content
Publication date: 08/2022
Authors: Charles Myers, Kirill Zhirkov, Kristin Lunz Trujillo

We use the case of welfare recipients to validate conjoint experiments as a measure of stereotype...

Journal Article
Urban-Rural Differences in Non-Voting Political Behaviors
Publication date: 08/2022
Authors: Jennifer Lin, Kristin Lunz Trujillo

Existing studies on the contemporary U.S. urban-rural divide have neglected its potential role in non-...

Journal Article
“Online Engagement with 2020 Election Misinformation and Turnout in the 2021 Georgia Runoff Election.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publication date: 08/2022
Authors: Jonathan Green, William Hobbs, Stefan McCabe, David Lazer

Following the 2020 general election, Republican elected officials, including then-President Donald...

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“Overturning Roe is not making laws reflect what people want - new survey highlights flaws in Supreme Court’s reasoning in returning abortion authority to states.”
Publication date: 07/2022
Authors: Matthew A. Baum, Alauna Safarpour, Kristin Lunz Trujillo

Kansans overwhelmingly ...

Journal Article
“Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Publication date: 05/2022
Authors: Robin Bayes, James Druckman, Alauna Safarpour

Scholars have long documented unequal access to the benefits of science among different groups...

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Why counting vaccinated Americans doesn’t always add up
Publication date: 04/2022
Authors: David Lazer

Millions of Americans are now eligible for a second covid-19 booster shot. By all accounts, efforts to...

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