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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Andrew Carnegie Fellow
  • 2015 - Frank Prize, University of Florida

Overview

Brendan Nyhan is a researcher affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States. Their work primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science, communication, artificial intelligence, political science and international relations, and health.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including misinformation and its impacts, media influence and politics, social media and politics, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, electoral systems and political participation, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Political sectarianism in America, 2020, Science
  • A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2016 US election, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Why the backfire effect does not explain the durability of political misperceptions, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook, 2023, Science

Frequent co-authors working with Nyhan include:

  • Jason Reifler
  • Andrew M. Guess
  • Benjamin Lyons
  • Jacob Montgomery
  • Michael Lerner

The scientist's work has been published most often in Harvard Dataverse, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, and Nature Human Behaviour.

Brendan Nyhan has received the Andrew Carnegie Fellow award in 2018 and the Frank Prize from the University of Florida in 2015.

Best Publications

  • The science of fake news

    David M. J. Lazer;Matthew A. Baum;Yochai Benkler;Adam J. Berinsky

  • When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions

    Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler

  • Redefine statistical significance

    Daniel J. Benjamin;James O. Berger;Magnus Johannesson;Magnus Johannesson;Brian A. Nosek;Brian A. Nosek

  • Effective Messages in Vaccine Promotion: A Randomized Trial

    Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler;Sean Richey;Gary L. Freed

  • The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics

    D.J. Flynn;Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler

  • Social media, political polarization, and political disinformation: a review of the scientific literature

    Joshua A. Tucker;Andrew Guess;Pablo Barbera;Cristian Vaccari;Cristian Vaccari

  • Political sectarianism in America

    Eli J. Finkel;Christopher A. Bail;Mina Cikara;Peter H. Ditto

  • How Conditioning on Posttreatment Variables Can Ruin Your Experiment and What to Do about It

    Jacob M. Montgomery;Brendan Nyhan;Michelle Torres

  • Does correcting myths about the flu vaccine work? An experimental evaluation of the effects of corrective information

    Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler

  • Real Solutions for Fake News? Measuring the Effectiveness of General Warnings and Fact-Check Tags in Reducing Belief in False Stories on Social Media

    Katherine Clayton;Spencer Blair;Jonathan A. Busam;Samuel Forstner

  • A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India.

    Andrew M Guess;Michael Lerner;Benjamin Lyons;Jacob M Montgomery

  • The hazards of correcting myths about health care reform.

    Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler;Peter A. Ubel

  • Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2016 US election.

    Andrew M. Guess;Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler

  • Selective exposure to misinformation: Evidence from the consumption of fake news during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign

    Andrew Guess;Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler

  • Taking Fact-Checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-Checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability

    Brendan Nyhan;Ethan Porter;Jason Reifler;Thomas J. Wood

  • The Effect of Fact-Checking on Elites: A Field Experiment on U.S. State Legislators

    Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler

  • Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook

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  • How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?

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  • Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing

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  • Why the "Death Panel" Myth Wouldn't Die: Misinformation in the Health Care Reform Debate

    Brendan Nyhan

  • Bayesian Model Averaging: Theoretical Developments and Practical Applications

    Jacob M. Montgomery;Brendan Nyhan

  • Understanding Innovations in Journalistic Practice: A Field Experiment Examining Motivations for Fact‐Checking

    Lucas Graves;Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler

  • One Vote out of Step? The Effects of Salient Roll Call Votes in the 2010 Election

    Brendan Nyhan;Eric McGhee;John Sides;Seth Masket

  • The roles of information deficits and identity threat in the prevalence of misperceptions

    Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler

  • Why the backfire effect does not explain the durability of political misperceptions

    Brendan Nyhan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason Reifler
Jason Reifler University of Southampton
John M. Carey
John M. Carey Dartmouth College
Donald P. Green
Donald P. Green Columbia University
Daniel J. Benjamin
Daniel J. Benjamin University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher D. Chambers
Christopher D. Chambers Cardiff University
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers University of Amsterdam
Simine Vazire
Simine Vazire University of Melbourne
Marcus R. Munafò
Marcus R. Munafò University of Bath
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Brian A. Nosek
Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science

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