Brendan Nyhan
Sociology and Political Science · 2010–2021
A researcher in the Science corpus: 14 papers; trusts 37 researchers and is trusted by 48 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.
Subfields
- Sociology and Political Science — 155 citations into it; #783 of 22,756 by trust here, #500 by citations
- Communication — 59 citations into it; #735 of 3,460 by trust here, #149 by citations
- Political Science and International Relations — 53 citations into it; #136 of 4,701 by trust here, #107 by citations
- Social Psychology — 26 citations into it
- Statistics and Probability — 23 citations into it
- Artificial Intelligence — 22 citations into it
- Safety Research — 19 citations into it
- Cognitive Neuroscience — 18 citations into it
Whom Brendan Nyhan trusts overall
Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.
- Larry M. Bartels
- Kosuke Imai
- Ziva Kunda
- A. Gerber
- David P. Redlawsk
- Charles Taber
- Luke Keele
- Dustin Tingley
- Hunt Allcott
- Jason Reifler
Who trusts Brendan Nyhan overall
- Emily K. Vraga
- Leticia Bode
- Ullrich K. H. Ecker
- Gordon Pennycook
- Nathan Walter
- Leonardo Bursztyn
- Brian E. Weeks
- Stephan Lewandowsky
- Kevin Munger
- Ingar K. Haaland
Papers from Brendan Nyhan's perspective
Ordered by how strongly the researchers Brendan Nyhan trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.
- The case for motivated reasoning.
- Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs
- When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions
- Identification, Inference and Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation Effects
- Biased Assimilation and Attitude Polarization: The Effects of Prior Theories on Subsequently Considered Evidence
- Identification of Causal effects Using Instrumental Variables
- Hot Cognition or Cool Consideration? Testing the Effects of Motivated Reasoning on Political Decision Making (Journal of Politics)
- Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. (Psychological bulletin)
- Experimental designs for identifying causal mechanisms
- How Large and Long-lasting Are the Persuasive Effects of Televised Campaign Ads? Results from a Randomized Field Experiment (American Political Science Review)
Their papers
- When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions (2010) — 2,649 citations
- The science of fake news (2018) — 3,794 citations
- Real Solutions for Fake News? Measuring the Effectiveness of General Warnings and Fact-Check Tags in Reducing Belief in False Stories on Social Media (2020) — 560 citations
- A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India (2020) — 622 citations
- Taking Fact-Checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-Checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability (2019) — 386 citations
- Displacing Misinformation about Events: An Experimental Test of Causal Corrections (2015) — 117 citations
- The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics (2017) — 869 citations
- Facts and Myths about Misperceptions (2020) — 158 citations
- Political sectarianism in America (2020) — 669 citations
- How Conditioning on Posttreatment Variables Can Ruin Your Experiment and What to Do about It (2018) — 699 citations
- The roles of information deficits and identity threat in the prevalence of misperceptions (2019) — 145 citations
- The Effects of Unsubstantiated Claims of Voter Fraud on Confidence in Elections (2021) — 124 citations
- Effective Messages in Vaccine Promotion: A Randomized Trial (2014) — 1,150 citations
- One Vote Out of Step? The Effects of Salient Roll Call Votes in the 2010 Election (2012) — 123 citations