Area of research
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics · Sociology and Political Science
Research interest
Research interests include Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence, Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies.
The Task Space: An Integrative Framework for Team Research
A large-scale evaluation of commonsense knowledge in humans and large language models.
Integrative experiments identify how punishment affects welfare in public goods games.
Media Bias Detector: Designing and Implementing a Tool for Real-Time Selection and Framing Bias Analysis in News Coverage
A research agenda for encouraging prosocial behaviour on social media.
Hypothetical nudges provide directional but noisy estimates of real behavior change.
Computational social science: past, present, and future
Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook.
Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation.
The exciting potential and daunting challenge of using GPS human-mobility data for epidemic modeling.
Causally estimating the effect of YouTube's recommender system using counterfactual bots.
Experiment aversion does generalize, but it can also be mitigated.
A framework for quantifying individual and collective common sense.
Replies to commentaries on beyond playing 20 questions with nature.
Weak Ties and the Origins of Network Science
Deplatforming did not decrease Parler users' activity on fringe social media.
Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences
Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature: Integrative Experiment Design in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Quantifying partisan news diets in Web and TV audiences.
Task complexity moderates group synergy
Reducing opinion polarization: Effects of exposure to similar people with differing political views.
Examining the consumption of radical content on YouTube.
Task complexity moderates group synergy.
A Large-Scale Comparative Study of Informal Social Networks in Firms
Measuring the news and its impact on democracy.
Empirica: a virtual lab for high-throughput macro-level experiments.
Success stories cause false beliefs about success
Evaluating the fake news problem at the scale of the information ecosystem.
Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration.
Objecting to experiments even while approving of the policies or treatments they compare.
HNDS-I: Developing a Large-Scale Data Platform for Processing Algorithms for Epidemic Modeling
EITM: The Structure, Evolution, and Function of Large-Scale Social Networks: Theory, Data, and Experiment.
CAREER: Theory and Applications of Complex Social Networks