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Project publications

Chen, Annie Y., Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler, Ronald Robertson, and Christo Wilson. Conditionally accepted. “Subscriptions and external links help drive resentful users to alternative and extremist YouTube channels.” Science Advances. (Link to preprint)

 

Stoeckel, Florian, Vittorio Mérola, Jack Thompson, Benjamin Lyons, and Jason Reifler. Conditionally accepted. “Public Perceptions and Misperceptions of Political Authority in the European Union.” European Union Politics

 

Stoeckel, Florian, Jack Thompson, Paula Szewach, Sabrina Stöckli, Matthew Barnfield, Joseph B. Phillips, Benjamin Lyons, Vittorio Mérola, and Jason Reifler. Forthcoming. “Correlates of support for international vaccine solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-sectional survey evidence from Germany.” PLoS ONE

 

Berlinski, Nicolas, Margaret Doyle, Andrew M. Guess, Gabrielle Levy, Benjamin Lyons, Jacob M. Montgomery, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler. 2023. “The Effects of Unsubstantiated Claims of Voter Fraud on Confidence in Elections.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 10(1):34-49. 

 

Thompson, Jack, Sabrina Stöckli, Anna Katharina Spälti, Joseph Phillips, Florian Stoeckel, Matthew Barnfield, Benjamin Lyons, Vittorio Mérola, Paula Szewach, Jason Reifler. 2023. “Vaccine attributes and vaccine uptake in Hungary: Evidence from a conjoint experiment.” European Journal of Public Health: ckad043. 

 

Spälti, Anna Katharina, Benjamin Lyons, Florian Stoeckel, Sabrina Stöckli, Paula Szewach, Vittorio Mérola, Christine Stedtnitz, Paola López González, and Jason Reifler. Forthcoming. “Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain.” Public Understanding of Science

 

Wu, Victor, John Carey, Andrew Guess, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. 2022. “Legislator criticism of a candidate’s conspiracy beliefs reduces support for the conspiracy but not the candidate: Evidence from Marjorie Taylor Greene and QAnon.” Misinformation Review

 

Stoeckel, Florian, Sabrina Stöckli, Joseph Phillips, Benjamin Lyons, Vittorio Mérola, Jason Reifler, Matthew Barnfield, Paula Szewach, and Jack Thompson. 2022. “Stamping the vaccine passport? Public support for lifting COVID-19 related restrictions for vaccinated citizens in France, Germany, and Sweden.” Vaccine 40(38):5615-5620. 

 

Stoeckel, Florian, Charlie Carter, Benjamin Lyons, and Jason Reifler. 2022. “The Politics of Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe.” European Journal of Public Health 32:4 (636-642). 

 

Stöckli, Sabrina, Anna Katharina Spälti, Joseph Phillips, Florian Stoecke, Matthew Barnfield, Jack Thompson, Benjamin Lyons, Vittorio Mérola, Paula Szewach, and Jason Reifler. 2022. “Which vaccine attributes foster vaccine uptake? A cross-country conjoint experiment.” PLoS ONE 17(5): e0266003. 

 

Kim, Jin Woo, Andrew Guess, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. 2021. “The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity.” Journal of Communication 71(6): 922-946. 

 

Stoeckel, Florian, Benjamin A. Lyons, and Jason Reifler. 2021 (online). “Public Misperceptions of European Integration in the UK.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties

 

Stoeckel, Florian, Charlie Carter, Benjamin A. Lyons, and Jason Reifler. 2021. “Association of vaccine hesitancy and immunization coverage rates in the European Union.” Vaccine 39(29): 3935-3939. 

 

Lyons, Benjamin A., Jacob M. Montgomery, Andrew M. Guess, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. 2021. “Overconfidence in news judgments.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 188(23): e2019527118. 

 

Spälti, Anna Katharina, Benjamin Lyons, Vittorio Mérola, Jason Reifler, Christine Stedtnitz, Florian Stoeckel, and Paula Szewach. 2021. “Partisanship and public opinion of COVID-19: Does emphasizing Trump and his administration’s response to the pandemic affect public opinion about the coronavirus?Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties 31(S1): 145-154. 

 

Lyons, Benjamin, Christina E Farhart, Michael P Hall, John Kotcher, Matthew Levendusky, Joanne Miller, Brendan Nyhan, Kaitlin Raimi, Jason Reifler, Kyle Saunders, Rasmus Skytte, and Xiaoquan Zhao. 2022. “Self-Affirmation and Identity-Driven Political Behavior.Journal of Experimental Political Science 9: 225–240. 

  • Recipient of the APSA Experimental Research Section Rebecca Morton Best Article Award for the best article published in JEPS in 2022. 

Guess, Andrew M., Brendan Nyhan, Zachary O’Keeffe, and Jason Reifler. 2020. “The sources and correlates of exposure to vaccine-related (mis)information online.” Vaccine 38(49):7799-7805. 

 

Lee, Nathan, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler, and DJ Flynn. 2020. “More Accurate, But No Less Polarized: Comparing the Factual Beliefs of Government Officials and the Public.” British Journal of Political Science 51(3): 1315-1322. 

 

Guess, A., Lerner, M., Lyons, B., Montgomery, J., Nyhan, B., Reifler, J., and Sircar, N. 2020. “A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 117(27): 15536-15545. 

  • Awarded “Honorable Mention” for APSA Political Communication section Walter Lippmann award for “Best article published in the field of political communication in the previous calendar year.” 

Lyons, Benjamin, Vittorio Merola, Jason Reifler, and Florian Stoeckel. 2020. “How politics shape views towards fact-checking: Evidence from 6 European countries.” International Journal of Press/Politics 25(3): 469-492. 

 

Lyons, Benjamin, Vittorio Merola, and Jason Reifler. 2020. “Shifting medical guidelines: Compliance and spillover effects for revised antibiotic recommendations.” Social Science & Medicine 255:112943. 

 

Guess, Andrew M., Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. 2020. “Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2016 U.S. election.” Nature Human Behaviour 4:472-480. 

 

Lyons, Benjamin, Amy Melissa McKay, and Jason Reifler. 2020. “High-status lobbyists are most likely to overrate their success.” Nature Human Behaviour 4:153-159. 

 

Guess, Andrew M., Dominique Lockett, Benjamin Lyons, Jacob M. Montgomery, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. 2020. “Fake news’ may have limited effects on political participation beyond increasing beliefs in false claims.” Misinformation Review 1(1). 

 

Scott, Vanessa, Douglas J. Opel, Jason Reifler, Sharon Rikin, Kalpana Pethe, Angela Barretta, and Melissa S. Stockwell. 2019. “Office-Based Educational Handout for Influenza Vaccination: A Randomized Controlled Trial.” Pediatrics 144(2):e2018-e2580. 

 

Nyhan, Brendan, Ethan Porter, Jason Reifler, and Thomas J. Wood. 2020. “Taking Fact-checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability.” Political Behavior 42:939-960. 

Nyhan, Brendan and Jason Reifler. 2019. “The roles of information deficits and identity threat in the prevalence of misperceptions.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 29(2): 222-244. 

  • Awarded “Honorable Mention” for best paper published in JEPOP in 2019. 

 

Lyons, Benjamin, Vittorio Merola, and Jason Reifler. 2018. “Not Just Asking Questions: Effects of Implicit and Explicit Conspiracy Information About Vaccines and Genetic Modification.” Health Communication 34(14): 1741-1750. 

 

Iakhnis, Evgeniia, Brian Rathbun, Jason Reifler, and Thomas Scotto. 2018. “Populist Referendum: Was Brexit an Expression of Nativist and Anti-Elitist Sentiment?Research & Politics April-June 2018: 1-7. 

 

Flynn, D.J., Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. 2017. “The Nature and Origin of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs about Politics.” Political Psychology 38(S1): 127-150. 

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