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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

Alyssa Smith
Jonathan Green
Senior Research Scientist
Jason Radford
Senior Research Scientist
Briony Swire Thompson
Senior Research Scientist
Janette M. Briceno
Project Manager
Luke Horgan
Research Programmer
Kristin Lunz Trujillo
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Matthew Simonson
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Hanyu Chwe
PhD Student
Adina Gitomer
PhD Student
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Recent Publications

OP ED
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...

Invited Talk
Understanding and Addressing COVID-19 Vaccine Decision-Making Among College Students and Younger Adults (Archived)
Publication date: 12/2021
Authors: Kristin Lunz Trujillo

Dr. Lunz Trujillo situates COVID-19 vaccine decision-making among younger adults with previous...

Book Chapter
Vax attacks: How conspiracy theory belief undermines vaccine support
Publication date: 12/2021
Authors: Christina E. Farhart, Ella Douglas-Durham, Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Joseph A. Vitriol

As the world continues to respond to the spread of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, which causes the...

Journal Article
“When Women Run, Voters Will Follow (Sometimes): Examining the Mobilizing Effect of Female Candidates in the 2014 and 2018 Midterm Elections.”
Publication date: 12/2021
Authors: Alauna Safarpour, SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor, Stella M. Rouse, Michele L. Swers

In this paper, we examine whether women candidates are more likely to spur turnout in election years...

Misinformation
Backfire effects after correcting misinformation are strongly associated with reliability
Publication date: 07/2021
Authors: Briony Swire Thompson, Nicholas Miklaucic, John Wihbey, David Lazer, Joseph DeGutis

The backfire effect is when a correction increases belief in the very misconception it is attempting...

Journal Article
Something to Run For: Articulated Interest and Candidate Emergence
Publication date: 07/2021
Authors: Jonathan Green, Meredith Conroy, Ciera Hammond

Patterns in candidate emergence affect who voters can choose from, and thus the quality of representative democracy. Despite extensive work...

Working Paper
Despair or Defiance? Assessing Turnout Effects of Election Misinformation
Publication date: 07/2021
Authors: Jonathan Green, William Hobbs, Stefan McCabe, David Lazer

Following the 2020 general election, Republican elected officials, including then-President Donald Trump, promoted conspiracy theories claiming...

Journal Article
Meaningful measures of human society in the twenty-first century
Publication date: 06/2021
Authors: David Lazer, Eszter Hargittai, Deen Freelon, Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Kevin Munger, Katherine Ognyanova, Jason Radford

Science rarely proceeds beyond what scientists can observe and measure, and sometimes what can be observed proceeds far ahead of scientific...

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