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David G. Rand publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David G. Rand sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 262 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

David G. Rand D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David G. Rand sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

David G. Rand is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to the social sciences with a focus on misinformation, social media, politics, and cognitive processes. Their research spans several intersecting fields including sociology and political science, communication, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

Throughout their career, David G. Rand has published notably in the main areas of:

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence

Their frequent publication venues reflect a breadth of interdisciplinary engagement and include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • PNAS Nexus
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
  • Nature Communications

David G. Rand's collaboration network involves regular co-authors such as Gordon Pennycook, Adam J. Berinsky, Mohsen Mosleh, Cameron Martel, and Antonio A. Arechar, indicating a strong engagement with peers focused on social and behavioral sciences.

Among their recent publications are several influential works reflecting ongoing research themes:

  • "Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response," 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention," 2020, Psychological Science
  • "The Psychology of Fake News," 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online," 2021, Nature
  • "Political sectarianism in America," 2020, Science

Their extensive body of work within social sciences includes 193 publications, featuring an emphasis on 129 works in sociology and political science, supplemented by contributions to communication (39), cognitive neuroscience (27), artificial intelligence (22), and statistical and nonlinear physics (16).

David G. Rand's research outputs emphasize empirically grounded interventions and theoretical insights at the intersection of social behavior, misinformation, and the dynamics of online communication. The scientist's collaborations and publication record portray a multidisciplinary approach to understanding social phenomena in digital and real-world contexts.

Best Publications

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

  • The online laboratory: conducting experiments in a real labor market

    John Joseph Horton;David Gertler Rand;Richard Jay Zeckhauser

  • Structural topic models for open ended survey responses

    Margaret E. Roberts;Brandon M. Stewart;Dustin Tingley;Christopher Lucas

  • Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention.

    Gordon Pennycook;Jonathon McPhetres;Jonathon McPhetres;Yunhao Zhang;Jackson G. Lu

  • Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning.

    Gordon Pennycook;David G. Rand

  • Spontaneous giving and calculated greed

    David G. Rand;David G. Rand;Joshua D. Greene;Martin A. Nowak

  • Statistical physics of human cooperation

    Matjaž Perc;Jillian J. Jordan;David G. Rand;Zhen Wang

  • Prior exposure increases perceived accuracy of fake news.

    Gordon Pennycook;Tyrone D. Cannon;David G. Rand

  • ReviewFeature ReviewHuman cooperation

    David G. Rand;Martin A. Nowak

  • Social heuristics shape intuitive cooperation

    David G. Rand;Alexander Peysakhovich;Alexander Peysakhovich;Gordon T. Kraft-Todd;George E. Newman

  • The Psychology of Fake News

    Gordon Pennycook;David G. Rand

  • Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online.

    Gordon Pennycook;Ziv Epstein;Mohsen Mosleh;Mohsen Mosleh;Antonio A. Arechar

  • Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality

    Gordon Pennycook;David G. Rand

  • Who falls for fake news? The roles of bullshit receptivity, overclaiming, familiarity, and analytic thinking.

    Gordon Pennycook;David G. Rand

  • Winners don’t punish

    Anna Dreber;David G. Rand;Drew Fudenberg;Martin A. Nowak

  • Positive Interactions Promote Public Cooperation

    David G. Rand;Anna Dreber;Anna Dreber;Tore Ellingsen;Drew Fudenberg

  • The promise of Mechanical Turk: How online labor markets can help theorists run behavioral experiments

    David G. Rand

  • Political sectarianism in America

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

  • Dynamic social networks promote cooperation in experiments with humans

    David G. Rand;Samuel Arbesman;Nicholas A. Christakis

  • The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings

    Gordon Pennycook;Adam Bear;Evan T. Collins;David Gertler Rand

  • Divine intuition: cognitive style influences belief in God.

    Amitai Shenhav;David G. Rand;Joshua D. Greene

  • Fake news, fast and slow: Deliberation reduces belief in false (but not true) news headlines.

    Bence Bago;David G. Rand;Gordon Pennycook

  • Cooperation, Fast and Slow: Meta-Analytic Evidence for a Theory of Social Heuristics and Self-Interested Deliberation

    David G. Rand

  • Humans display a ‘cooperative phenotype’ that is domain general and temporally stable

    Alexander Peysakhovich;Martin A. Nowak;David G. Rand

  • Why We Cooperate

    Jillian J. Jordan;Alexander Peysakhovich;David G. Rand

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon Pennycook
Gordon Pennycook Cornell University
Anna Dreber
Anna Dreber Stockholm School of Economics
Martin A. Nowak
Martin A. Nowak Harvard University
Richard J. Zeckhauser
Richard J. Zeckhauser Harvard University
Valerio Capraro
Valerio Capraro University of Milano-Bicocca
Nicholas A. Christakis
Nicholas A. Christakis Yale University
Tore Ellingsen
Tore Ellingsen Stockholm School of Economics
Joshua D. Greene
Joshua D. Greene Harvard University
Amitai Shenhav
Amitai Shenhav Brown University

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