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Psychological underpinnings of partisan bias in tie formation on social media

Mohsen Mosleh, Cameron Martel and David G. Rand (2024). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication.

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PostedJuly 15, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Politics, Social networks, Field experiments

Blocking of counter-partisan accounts drives political assortment on Twitter

Cameron Martel, Mohsen Mosleh, Qi Yang, Tauhid Zaman, and David G. Rand (2024). PNAS Nexus. 3(5), p.pgae161.

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PostedJuly 1, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Politics, Social networks, Field experiments

Encouraging the resumption of economic activity after COVID-19: Evidence from a large scale-field experiment in China

Juan Palacios, Yichun Fan, Erez Yoeli, Jianghao Wang, Yuchen Chai, Weizeng Sun, David G. Rand, and Siqi Zheng (2022). PNAS. 119 (5) e2100719119; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2100719119

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PostedNovember 1, 2022
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2022, Field experiments, Cooperation

Field Experiments on Social Media

Mohsen Mosleh, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2021). Current Directions in Psychological Science. 31(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214211054761.

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PostedApril 26, 2021
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2021, `Review articles, Field experiments, Social networks

Perverse Consequences of Debunking in a Twitter Field Experiment: Being Corrected for Posting False News Increases Subsequent Sharing of Low Quality, Partisan, and Toxic Content

Mohsen Mosleh, Cameron Martel, Dean Eckles, and David G. Rand (2021). CHI’21. Article 182.

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PostedApril 15, 2021
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsField experiments, 2021, Social networks, Misinformation, Fact-Checking

Shared Partisanship Dramatically Increases Social Tie Formation in a Twitter Field Experiment

Mohsen Mosleh, Cameron Martel, and David G. Rand (2021). PNAS. 118 (7) e2022761118; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022761118

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PostedApril 7, 2021
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2021, Field experiments, Social networks

Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online

Gordon Pennycook, Ziv Epstein, Mohsen Mosleh, Antonio A. Arechar, Dean Eckles, and David G. Rand (2021). Nature. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03344-2

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PostedApril 6, 2021
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsField experiments, 2021, Social networks, Accuracy Prompts, Misinformation

Digital Health Support in Treatment for Tuberculosis

Erez Yoeli, Jon Rathauser, Syon Bhanot, Maureen Kimenye, Eunice Mailu, Enos Masini, Philip Owiti, and David G. Rand (2019) New England Journal of Medicine. doi:10.1056/NEJMc1806550

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PostedSeptember 26, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Field experiments, Reputation, 2019

A field experiment on community policing and police legitimacy

Kyle Peyton, Michael Sierra-Arévalo, and David G. Rand (2019). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.1910157116

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PostedSeptember 26, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Field experiments, Intergroup, 2019

Credibility-enhancing displays promote the provision of non-normative public goods

Gordon Kraft-Todd, Bryan Bollinger, Kenneth Gillingham, Stefan Lamp, and David G. Rand (2018). Nature. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0647-4. [Data and code]

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PostedOctober 25, 2018
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Field experiments, 2018

Putting social rewards and identity salience to the test: Evidence from a field experiment with teachers in Philadelphia

Syon Bhanot, Gordon Kraft-Todd, David G. Rand, and Erez Yoeli (2018). Journal of Behavioral Public Administration. 1(1) 1-16.

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PostedMarch 10, 2018
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsField experiments, Cooperation, 2018

'Setting a Price' for Charitable Giving Increases Donations

Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, Michael I. Norton, and David G. Rand (2016). Social Science Research Network.

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PostedMay 25, 2016
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Field experiments

Promoting cooperation in the field

Gordon Kraft-Todd, Erez Yoeli, Syon Bhanot, and David Rand (2015) Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 3: 96-101. [Video] and [NYTimes Op Ed]. 

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PostedMarch 12, 2015
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2015, Cooperation, Reputation, Field experiments, `Review articles

Harnessing Reciprocity to Promote Cooperation and the Provisioning of Public Goods

David G. Rand, Erez Yoeli, and Moshe Hoffman (2014) Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1: 263-269. 

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PostedDecember 1, 2014
AuthorScienceSites
TagsCooperation, 2014, Reputation, Field experiments, `Review articles

Powering Up With Indirect Reciprocity in a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Erez Yoeli, Moshe Hoffman, David Rand, Martin A. Nowak (2013). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110, 10424–10429

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PostedJuly 25, 2013
AuthorScienceSites
Categories2013, journal-article, social-behaviors-beliefs
Tags2013, Cooperation, Reputation, Field experiments

Featured Articles

Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI


Thomas H. Costello, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2024). Science

Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook


Jennifer Allen, Duncan Watts, and David G. Rand (2024). Science

Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online


Gordon Pennycook, Ziv Epstein, Mohsen Mosleh, Antonio A. Arechar, Dean Eckles, and David Rand (2021). Nature

Scaling up fact-checking using the wisdom of crowds


Jennifer Allen, Antonio A. Arechar, Gordon Pennycook, and David Rand (2021). Science Advances

Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality


Gordon Pennycook and David Rand (2019). PNAS

 

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