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Overview

Jason Reifler is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the Social Sciences, with a significant focus on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Artificial Intelligence, Communication, and Health. This interdisciplinary approach reflects the breadth of topics explored throughout their academic career.

Their research topics prominently include Misinformation and Its Impacts, Media Influence and Politics, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, Social Media and Politics, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment.

Jason Reifler has contributed to several scholarly publications. Recent papers include:

  • "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
  • "The Effects of Unsubstantiated Claims of Voter Fraud on Confidence in Elections" (2021), Journal of Experimental Political Science
  • "The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity" (2021), Journal of Communication
  • "Overconfidence in news judgments is associated with false news susceptibility" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent collaborators include Brendan Nyhan, Benjamin Lyons, Andrew M. Guess, Jacob Montgomery, and Michael Lerner.

Jason Reifler's works have appeared in a variety of venues, notably:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Journal of Experimental Political Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Vaccine

In addition to journal publications, Jason Reifler has authored a book titled The Power of the Crowd, published by Cambridge University Press in 2025.

Best Publications

  • When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions

    Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler

  • 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

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

    Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler

  • Success Matters: Casualty Sensitivity and the War in Iraq

    Christopher Gelpi;Peter D. Feaver;Jason Reifler

  • Paying the Human Costs of War: American Public Opinion and Casualties in Military Conflicts

    Christopher Gelpi;Peter Feaver;Jason Aaron Reifler

  • FOREIGN POLICY AND THE ELECTORAL CONNECTION

    John H. Aldrich;Christopher Gelpi;Peter Feaver;Jason Reifler

  • 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

  • Let's Get a Second Opinion: International Institutions and American Public Support for War

    Joseph M. Grieco;Christopher Gelpi;Jason Reifler;Peter D. Feaver

  • Taking foreign policy personally : personal values and foreign policy attitudes

    Brian C. Rathbun;Joshua D. Kertzer;Jason Reifler;Paul Goren

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

    Lucas Graves;Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler

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

    Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler

  • Success Matters: Casualty Sensitivity and the War in Iraq

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  • Iraq the Vote: Retrospective and Prospective Foreign Policy Judgments on Candidate Choice and Casualty Tolerance

    Christopher Gelpi;Jason Reifler;Peter Feaver

  • Displacing Misinformation about Events: An Experimental Test of Causal Corrections

    Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler

  • The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity

    Jin Woo Kim;Andrew Guess;Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler

  • The Effects of Unsubstantiated Claims of Voter Fraud on Confidence in Elections

    Nicolas Berlinski;Margaret Doyle;Andrew M. Guess;Gabrielle Levy

  • Beliefs Don't Always Persevere: How Political Figures Are Punished When Positive Information about Them Is Discredited

    Michael D. Cobb;Brendan Nyhan;Jason Reifler

  • Populist referendum: Was ‘Brexit’ an expression of nativist and anti-elitist sentiment?:

    Evgeniia Iakhnis;Brian Rathbun;Jason Reifler;Thomas J. Scotto

Frequent Co-Authors

Brendan Nyhan
Brendan Nyhan Dartmouth College
Harold D. Clarke
Harold D. Clarke The University of Texas at Dallas
David Sanders
David Sanders University of the Western Cape
Peter D. Feaver
Peter D. Feaver Duke University
Marianne C. Stewart
Marianne C. Stewart The University of Texas at Dallas
Paul Whiteley
Paul Whiteley University of Essex
John H. Aldrich
John H. Aldrich Duke University
Michael C. Munger
Michael C. Munger Duke University
Kevin Arceneaux
Kevin Arceneaux Sciences Po
Michael Bang Petersen
Michael Bang Petersen Aarhus University

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