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David G. Rand

Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Publications -  348
Citations -  35664

David G. Rand is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Misinformation & Dictator game. The author has an hindex of 74, co-authored 320 publications receiving 26416 citations. Previous affiliations of David G. Rand include Yale University & Harvard University.

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

Jay J. Van Bavel, +42 more
TL;DR: Evidence from a selection of research topics relevant to pandemics is discussed, including work on navigating threats, social and cultural influences on behaviour, science communication, moral decision-making, leadership, and stress and coping.
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The Online Laboratory: Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market

TL;DR: The views on the potential role that online experiments can play within the social sciences are presented, and software development priorities and best practices are recommended.
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The online laboratory: conducting experiments in a real labor market

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use an online labor market to replicate three classic experiments and find quantitative agreement between levels of cooperation in a prisoner's dilemma played online and in the physical laboratory.
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Spontaneous giving and calculated greed

TL;DR: The cognitive basis of cooperative decision-making in humans using a dual-process framework is explored and it is proposed that cooperation is intuitive because cooperative heuristics are developed in daily life where cooperation is typically advantageous.
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Structural topic models for open ended survey responses

TL;DR: The structural topic model makes analyzing open-ended responses easier, more revealing, and capable of being used to estimate treatment effects, and is illustrated with analysis of text from surveys and experiments.