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Overview

Jay J. Van Bavel is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a dominant focus on sociology and political science. Additional fields of study include artificial intelligence, social psychology, communication, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work encompasses various topics related to social dynamics and human behavior. Key research areas include misinformation and its impacts, social media and politics, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, and COVID-19 and mental health.

Jay J. Van Bavel has contributed to multiple notable publications, often collaborating with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Steve Rathje
  • Sander van der Linden
  • Valerio Capraro
  • Claire Robertson
  • Elizabeth Harris

Their research has been published extensively in several respected venues, including:

  • PNAS Nexus
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Selected recent papers by Jay J. Van Bavel consist of:

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response (2020), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online (2020), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Stewardship of global collective behavior (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

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

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

  • Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks

    William J. Brady;Julian A. Wills;John T. Jost;Joshua A. Tucker

  • Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Tracks Real-World Dynamic Group Interactions in the Classroom

    Suzanne Dikker;Suzanne Dikker;Lu Wan;Ido Davidesco;Lisa Kaggen

  • The Partisan Brain: An Identity-Based Model of Political Belief.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Andrea Pereira;Andrea Pereira

  • Political sectarianism in America

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

  • Culture-Level Dimensions of Social Axioms and Their Correlates across 41 Cultures

    Michael Harris Bond;Kwok Leung;Al Au;Kwok-Kit Tong

  • Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Anton Gollwitzer;Cameron Martel;William J. Brady;Philip Pärnamets;Philip Pärnamets

  • The Neural Substrates of In-Group Bias: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Dominic J. Packer;William A. Cunningham

  • Contextual sensitivity in scientific reproducibility.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Peter Mende-Siedlecki;William J. Brady;Diego A. Reinero

  • The iterative reprocessing model: A multilevel framework for attitudes and evaluation.

    William A. Cunningham;Philip David Zelazo;Dominic J. Packer;Jay J. Van Bavel

  • Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media.

    Steve Rathje;Jay J. Van Bavel;Sander van der Linden

  • The Neuroscience of Intergroup Relations An Integrative Review

    Mina Cikara;Jay J. Van Bavel

  • Affective Flexibility Evaluative Processing Goals Shape Amygdala Activity

    William A. Cunningham;Jay J. Van Bavel;Jay J. Van Bavel;Ingrid R. Johnsen

  • The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online:

    William J. Brady;M. J. Crockett;Jay J. Van Bavel;Jay J. Van Bavel

  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

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  • Stewardship of global collective behavior.

    Joseph B. Bak-Coleman;Mark Alfano;Mark Alfano;Wolfram Barfuss;Carl T. Bergstrom

  • National Narcissism predicts the Belief in and the Dissemination of Conspiracy Theories During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From 56 Countries

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  • Self-Categorization With a Novel Mixed-Race Group Moderates Automatic Social and Racial Biases:

    Jay J. Van Bavel;William A. Cunningham

  • Political Neuroscience: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship

    John T. Jost;H. Hannah Nam;David M. Amodio;Jay J. Van Bavel

  • An ideological asymmetry in the diffusion of moralized content on social media among political leaders.

    William J. Brady;Julian A. Wills;Dominic Burkart;John T. Jost

  • Modulation of the fusiform face area following minimal exposure to motivationally relevant faces: Evidence of in-group enhancement (not out-group disregard)

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Dominic J. Packer;William A. Cunningham

  • Group membership alters the threshold for mind perception: The role of social identity, collective identification, and intergroup threat

    Leor M. Hackel;Christine E. Looser;Jay J. Van Bavel

  • Implicit Measurement of Attitudes: A Physiological Approach

    William A. Cunningham;William A. Cunningham;William A. Cunningham;Dominic J. Packer;Dominic J. Packer;Amanda Kesek;Jay J. Van Bavel

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. Cunningham
William A. Cunningham University of Toronto
John T. Jost
John T. Jost New York University
Julian F. Thayer
Julian F. Thayer University of California, Irvine
Stephen Reicher
Stephen Reicher University of St Andrews
Michael J. A. Wohl
Michael J. A. Wohl Carleton University
S. Alexander Haslam
S. Alexander Haslam University of Queensland
Andrei Cimpian
Andrei Cimpian New York University
Michael W. Vasey
Michael W. Vasey The Ohio State University
Mina Cikara
Mina Cikara Harvard University

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