Research Papers

(2024). Using survey experiment pretesting to support future pandemic response. PNAS Nexus.

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(2024). Evidence of a log scaling law for political persuasion with large language models. ArXiv.

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(2024). How experiments help campaigns persuade voters: evidence from a large archive of campaigns’ own experiments. American Political Science Review.

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(2023). Comparing the persuasiveness of role-playing large language models and human experts on polarized U.S. political issues. PsyArXiv.

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(2023). No association between numerical ability and politically motivated reasoning in a large US probability sample. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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(2023). Quantifying the potential persuasive returns to political microtargeting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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(2023). Partisans’ receptivity to persuasive messaging is undiminished by countervailing party leader cues. Nature Human Behaviour.

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(2023). Estimating the between-issue variation in party elite cue effects. Public Opinion Quarterly.

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(2022). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain & Behavior.

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(2022). Rank-heterogeneous effects of political messages: Evidence from randomized survey experiments testing 59 video treatments. PsyArXiv.

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(2021). The (minimal) persuasive advantage of political video over text. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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(2021). Estimating the persistence of party cue influence in a panel survey experiment. Journal of Experimental Political Science.

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(2021). Estimating the causal effects of cognitive effort and policy information on party cue influence. PsyArXiv.

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(2021). Does observability amplify sensitivity to moral frames? Evaluating a reputation-based account of moral preferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 94, 104103.

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(2020). Rethinking the link between cognitive sophistication and politically motivated reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 1095–1114..

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(2020). Bayesian or biased? Analytic thinking and political belief updating. Cognition, 204, 104375.

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(2020). Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning: Why paradigmatic study designs often undermine causal inference. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 34, 81-87.

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(2019). Moral polarization and out-party hostility in the US political context. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7(1), 213-245.

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(2019). Biased belief in the Bayesian Brain: A deeper look at the evidence. Consciousness and Cognition, 68, 107-114.

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(2019). Investigating the relationship between self-perceived moral superiority and moral behavior using economic games. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(2), 135-143.

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(2018). Doing good vs avoiding bad in prosocial choice: A refined test and extension of the morality preference hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 64-70.

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(2018). Do the folk actually hold folk-economic beliefs?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, e190.

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(2017). The illusion of moral superiority. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(6), 623-631.

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(2017). The heart trumps the head: Desirability bias in political belief revision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(8), 1143-1149.

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(2017). Choosing the right level of analysis: Stereotypes shape social reality via collective action. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e13.

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