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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,Katherine Baicker,Paulo S. Boggio,Valerio Capraro,Aleksandra Cichocka,Aleksandra Cichocka,Mina Cikara,Molly J. Crockett,Alia J. Crum,Karen M. Douglas,James N. Druckman,John Drury,Oeindrila Dube,Naomi Ellemers,Eli J. Finkel,James H. Fowler,Michele J. Gelfand,Shihui Han,S. Alexander Haslam,Jolanda Jetten,Shinobu Kitayama,Dean Mobbs,Lucy E. Napper,Dominic J. Packer,Gordon Pennycook,Ellen Peters,Richard E. Petty,David G. Rand,Stephen Reicher,Simone Schnall,Azim F. Shariff,Linda J. Skitka,Sandra Susan Smith,Cass R. Sunstein,Nassim Tabri,Joshua A. Tucker,Sander van der Linden,Paul A. M. Van Lange,Kim A. Weeden,Michael J. A. Wohl,Jamil Zaki,Sean R. Zion,Robb Willer +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
Margaret E. Roberts,Brandon M. Stewart,Dustin Tingley,Chris Lucas,Jetson Leder-Luis,Shana Kushner Gadarian,Bethany Albertson,David G. Rand +7 more
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.