Working Papers

As IDE scholars' projects progress, they share early-stage research through working papers that offer insights into their findings and methodology.

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Megastudy: Identifying Successful Interventions to Strengthen Americans’ Democratic Attitudes

Aug, 2022

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Working Papers Scaling Up Fact-Checking Using the Wisdom of Crowds

Apr 2021

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Jennifer Allen | MIT Sloan and MIT IDE

Antonio A. Arechar

Gordon Pennycook

Working Papers Cybersecurity Hiring in Response to Data Breaches

Mar 2021

Sebastian Steffen | PhD Candidate

Sarah Bana | Postdoctoral Associate

Wang Jin | Research Scientist

Erik Brynjolfsson

Xiupeng Wang

Research Papers The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology

Mar 2021

Neil Thompson | Research Scientist

Working Papers Ethical Machines: The Human-centric Use of Artificial Intelligence

Mar 2021

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Data-Driven Societies Research Group Lead

B.Lepri

N. Oliver

Working Papers Beliefs About COVID-19 in Canada, the U.K., and the U.S.: A novel test of political polarization and motivated reasoning

Feb 2021

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Gordon Pennycook

Jonathon McPhetres

Bence Bago

Working Papers Surfacing Norms to Increase Vaccine Acceptance

Feb 2021

Sinan Aral | Director

Dean Eckles | Social Networks & Digital Experimentation Research Group Lead

Alex Moehring

Avinash Collis

Kiran Garimella

M. Amin Rahimian

Working Papers Enouraging the Resumption of Economic Activity After COVID-19

Jan 2021

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Juan Palacios

Yichun Fan

Erez Yoeli

Jianghao Wang

Yuchen Chai

Weizeng Sun

Siqi Zheng

Working Papers Shifting Attention to Accuracy Can Reduce Misinformation Online

Dec 2020

Dean Eckles | Social Networks & Digital Experimentation Research Group Lead

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Gordon Pennycook

Ziv Epstein

Mohsen Mosleh

Antonio A. Arechar

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