Very excited to share that I'll be joining Social and Decision Sciences @cmu.edu as an assistant professor in the Fall! So grateful to everyone who has supported me, particularly my amazing advisors @dgrand.bsky.social & Rahul Bhui, family, & friends!

Thank you to our wonderful Doctoral Research Forum presenters #VictoriaZhang, #ChuckDowning, @ocolluphid.bsky.social, #ChristinaNguyen, @rorchinik.bsky.social. And congratulations to our thesis prize winners: Reed (1st place) and Christina (2nd place). Christina also won the viewers' choice award.

Normalizing lies...👇 Repeated exposure effect on moral condemnation of fake news www.nature.com/articles/s41... @dgrand.bsky.social "...frequently seen headlines receive lower moral condemnation" "Without this condemnation, the publication & spreading of online misinformation may be more common."

🚨New WP🚨 Using GPT4 to persuade participants significantly reduces climate skepticism and inaction -Sig more effective than consensus messaging -Works for Republicans -Evidence of persistence @ 1mo -Scalable! PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps... Try the bot: www.debunkbot.com/climate-change Here’s how 👇

Do you have strong programming skills but need research experience doing meaningful & exciting CSS projects before head off to a top graduate school for a computational social science PhD? Apply now to predoc www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... with me, @dggoldst.bsky.social & @jakehofman.bsky.social

New Bright Line Watch report brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-... -Expert ratings of US democracy at post-2016 low -55% of Trump-aligned Rs approve of "strong leader who does not have to bother w/Congress" -Jan 6 pardons, exec branch firings, Musk influence rated as grave threats 🧵 of results below

A new working paper with Daniel Banki, @urisohn.bsky.social and Robert Walatka, just submitted to SSRN. The paper is comment on Ryan Oprea's recent AER paper. The paper is processing, but you, my friends, get early entry. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

CamererFest got off to a great start with a thrilling poster session from generations of @cfcamerer.bsky.social academic descendants #cfcfc 1/10

@rorchinik.bsky.social fit three fascinating papers on adaptation to environments with varying levels of misinformation on one poster. If the QR codes don't work, go to his website: www.reedorchinik.com/research @rbhui.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social @cameronmartel.bsky.social #cfcfc 4/10

New WP! The illusory truth effect (repetition -> belief) is core to psych of beliefs, & thought to be a deep bias impacting misinfo, persuasion & advertising Why would cognition include such a flaw? We argue it is a rational adaptation to high-quality info environments 🧵1/

Very excited about this paper! And make sure to check out my talk tomorrow if you’re at SJDM

David Rand@dgrand.bsky.social · 3y ago

🚨New WP🚨 Intuition favors belief in false claims. But why? @rorchinik.bsky.social argues its the result of rationally adaptative intuitions adjusting to low base rate of false claims in the US media environment Check out Reed's talk at SJDM on 11/18 9:10am! PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Check out our new working paper! While Elon Musk’s embrace of the right has had horrible effects, it puts him in a place to be a credible messenger to Reps about the importance of climate change. Showing Rs his pro-climate tweets causes meaningful changes in pro-climate beliefs & intended actions.

David Rand@dgrand.bsky.social · 3y ago

🚨New WP🚨 How can more Republicans be convinced re climate change? We show that tweets from Elon Musk (a fav of the right, but still pro-climate) sig increase climate concern/action among Reps - with no effect on his reputation Musk can be a powerful climate messenger! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Very happy to share a new working paper with some great coauthors! 97% of climate scientists agree that human-caused climate change is occurring. But how do people interpret this consensus? Is it a testament to expertise or a signal of bias? psyarxiv.com/ezua5/