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Jason Reifler

Department of Politics +44 (0)1392 725241 Amory Building J.Reiﬂ[email protected] University of Exeter jason.reiﬂ[email protected] Exeter, Devon EX4 4RJ https://www.jasonreifler.com United Kingdom ORCID: 0000-0002-1116-7346

Employment

University of Exeter (2013-present) Academic Positions Professor, September 2016- Associate Professor, December 2015-September 2016 Senior Lecturer, August 2013-December 2015

Signiﬁcant Administrative Positions Co-Director, Centre for Elections, Media, and Participation (CEMaP), July 2020- Co-Chair, College of Social Sciences & International Studies Ethics Committee, January 2020- Director, BSc Political Psychology (new program under development), January 2020- Co-Associate Dean for Global [sic] (interim), CSSIS, January-March 2020 Director of Education, Department of Politics, June 2014-May 2016

University of Gothenburg (2019-2020) Guest Professor

Georgia State University (2007-2013) Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, August 2008-July 2013 ◦ Promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure), eﬀective August 2013 Lecturer, Georgia State University, August 2007-July 2008

Loyola University Chicago (2005-2007) Assistant Professor, August 2005-July 2007

Bennett, Petts, & Blumenthal (Washington, DC polling ﬁrm, 1996-1999) Pollster/Analyst

Education

Ph.D. (Political Science), Duke University, 2006 Dissertation: “Essays on Bias in Politics” Committee: John Aldrich (chair), Michael Munger, John Transue, Scott de Marchi Fields: American Politics (First field) and Quantitative Methods (Second field) M.A. (Political Science), Duke University, 2002 B.A. (Independent major in Peace and Conflict Studies), Colby College, 1995

1 Publications Book 1. Gelpi, Christopher, Peter D. Feaver, and Jason Reiﬂer. 2009. Paying the Human Costs of War: American Public Opinion and Casualties in Military Conﬂicts. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Refereed Journal Articles 54. Lyons, Benjamin A., Jacob M. Montgomery, Andrew M. Guess, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. Forthcoming. “Overconfidence in news judgments.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 53. Spälti,Anna Katharina, Benjamin Lyons, Vittorio Mérola,Jason Reifler, Christine Stedtnitz, Florian Stoeckel, and Paula Szewach. Conditionally accepted. “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. 52. Berlinsk, Nicolas, Margaret Doyle, Andrew M. Guess, Gabrielle Levy, Benjamin Lyons, Jacob M. Montgomery, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler. “The Effects of Unsubstantiated Claims of Voter Fraud on Confidence in Elections.” Conditionally accepted for publication at Journal of Experimental Political Science.

51. Arceneaux, Kevin, Timothy B. Gravelle, Matthias Osmundsen, Michael Bang Petersen, Jason Reiﬂer, and Thomas J. Scotto. Forthcoming. “Some people just want to watch the world burn: The prevalence, psychology and politics of the ‘Need for Chaos’.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 50. Powers, Kathleen E., Jason Reiﬂer, and Thomas J. Scotto. Forthcoming. “Going Nativist: How Na- tivism and Economic Ideology Interact to Shape Beliefs about Global Trade.” Foreign Policy Analysis.

49. 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. Forthcoming. “Self-Aﬃrmation and Identity-Driven Political Behavior.” Journal of Experimen- tal Political Science.

48. 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. 47. Gravelle, Timothy, Jason Reifler, and Thomas Scotto. 2020. “The Structure of Foreign Policy Attitudes among Middle Power Publics: A Transpacific Replication.” Australian Journal of International Affairs. 46. 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. 45. 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 117(27): 15536-15545.

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

42. 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.

2 41. Gravelle, Tim, Jason Reifler, and Thomas J. Scotto. 2020. “Personality Traits and Foreign Policy Attitudes: A Cross-National Exploratory Study.” Personality and Individual Differences 153:109607. 40. Gries, Peter, Jing Yiming, Matthias Mader, Thomas J. Scotto, Harald Schoen, and Jason Reifler. 2020. “A new measure of the ‘Democratic Peace’: What country feeling thermometer data can teach us about the drivers of American and Western European foreign policy.” Political Research Exchange 2(1):1716630. 39. Lyons, Benjamin, Amy Melissa McKay, and Jason Reifler. 2020. “Biased self-perception in an elite epistemic community: High-status lobbyists are most likely to overrate their success.” Nature Human Behaviour 4:153-159.

38. 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). 37. 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 Ran- domized Controlled Trial.” Pediatrics 144(2):e2018-e2580. 36. Nyhan, Brendan, Ethan Porter, Jason Reifler, and Thomas J. Wood. 2019. “Taking Fact-checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability.” Political Behavior. 35. 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. 34. 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.

33. Mader, Matthias, Thomas Scotto, Jason Reiﬂer, Peter Gries, Pierangelo Isernia, and Harald Schoen. 2018. “How political are national identities? A comparison of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany in the 2010s.” Research & Politics. 32. 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.

31. Scotto, Thomas J., David Sanders, and Jason Reifler. 2018. “The Consequential Nationalist-Globalist Policy Divide in Contemporary Britain: Some Initial Analyses.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 28(1): 38-58. 30. Gravelle, Tim, Jason Reifler, and Thomas Scotto. 2017. “The Structure of Foreign Policy Attitudes in Transatlantic Perspective: Comparing the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany.” European Journal of Political Research 56(4): 757-776. 29. Scotto, Thomas J, Jason Reifler, David Hudson, and Jennifer Hudson. 2017. “We Spend How Much? Misperceptions, Innumeracy, and Support for Foreign Aid in the United States and Great Britain.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 4(2): 119-128. 28. Clarke, Harold D., Timothy B. Gravelle, Thomas J. Scotto, Marianne C. Stewart, and Jason Reifler. 2017 “Like Father, Like Son: Justin Trudeau and Valence Voting in Canada?s 2015 Federal Election.” PS: Political Science and Politics 50(3): 701-707. 27. Flynn, D.J., Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. 2017. “The Nature and Origin of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs about Politics.” Advances in Political Psychology. (Pub- lished concurrently in Political Psychology 38(S1): 127-150.

3 26. Scotto, Thomas and Jason Reifler. 2017. “Getting Tough with the Dragon? The Comparative Corre- lates of Foreign Policy Attitudes towards China in the United States and United Kingdom.” Interna- tional Relations of the Asia-Pacific 17(2): 265-299. 25. Goren, Paul, Harald Schoen, Jason Reifler, Thomas J. Scotto, and William Chittick. 2016. “A Unified Theory of Value-Based Reasoning and U.S. Public Opinion.” Political Behavior 38(4): 977-997.

24. Rathbun, Brian, Josh Kertzer, Jason Reifler, Paul Goren, and Thomas Scotto. 2016. “Taking For- eign Policy Personally: Personal Values and Foreign Policy Beliefs.” International Studies Quarterly 60(1):124-127. 23. Graves, Lucas, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler. 2016. “Understanding innovations in journalistic prac- tice: A field experiment examining motivations for fact-checking.” 66(1):102-138 Journal of Commu- nication. 22. Nyhan, Brendan and Jason Reifler. 2015. “The Effect of Fact-checking on Elites: A field experiment on U.S. state legislators.” American Journal of Political Science 59(3):628-640. 21. Nyhan, Brendan and Jason Reifler. 2015. “Does Correcting Myths about the Flu Vaccine Work? An experimental evaluation of the effects of corrective information.” Vaccine 339: 459-464. 20. Nyhan, Brendan and Jason Reifler. 2015. “Displacing misinformation about events: An experimental test of causal corrections.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 2(1): 81-93. 19. Clarke, Harold, Jason Reifler, Thomas Scotto, Marianne Stewart, and Paul Whiteley. 2015. “Valence politics and voting in the 2012 US presidential election.” Electoral Studies 40:462-470. 18. Gravelle, Timothy, Thomas Scotto, Jason Reifler, and Harold Clarke. 2014. “Foreign policy beliefs and support for Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party.” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 20(2): 111-130. 17. Franklin, Dan, Jason Reifler, and Joseph Weinberg. 2014. “Teaching Writing and Critical Thinking in Large Political Science Classes.” Journal of Political Science Education 10(2):155-165. 16. Nyhan, Brendan, Jason Reifler, Sean Richey, Gary Freed. 2014. “Effective Messages in Vaccine Promotion: A Randomized Trial.” Pediatrics 133(4):e835-e842. 15. Aldrich, John, Jason Reifler, and Michael C. Munger. 2014. “Sophisticated and myopic? Citizen preferences for Electoral College reform.” Public Choice 158(3-4): 541-558. 14. Aldrich, John, Michael Munger, and Jason Reifler. 2014. “Institutions, Information, and Faction: An Experimental Test of Riker’s Federalism Thesis for Political Parties.” Public Choice 158: 577-588. 13. Reifler, Jason, Thomas Scotto, Harold Clarke, David Sanders, Marianne Stewart, and Paul Whiteley. 2014. “Prudence, Principle And Minimal Heuristics: British Public Opinion Towards The Use Of Military Force In Afghanistan And Libya.” British Journal of Politics and International Relations 16(1):28-55. 12. Cobb, Michael, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. 2013. “Beliefs Don’t Always Persevere: How political figures are punished when positive information about them is discredited.” Political Psychology 34(3):307-326.

11. Nyhan, Brendan, Jason Reifler, and Peter Ubel. 2013. “The Hazards of Correcting Myths About Health Care Reform.” Medical Care 51(2):127-132. 10. Nyhan, Brendan, Jason Reifler, and Sean Richey. 2012. “The Role of Social Networks in Influenza Vaccine Attitudes and Intentions Among College Students.” Journal of Adolescent Health 51(3): 302- 304.

4 9. Grieco, Joseph, Christopher Gelpi, Jason Reifler, and Peter Feaver. 2011. “Let’s Get a Second Opinion: International Institutions and American Public Support for War.” International Studies Quarterly 55(2): 563-583. 8. Clarke, Harold, Allan Kornberg, Thomas J. Scotto, Jason Reifler, David Sanders, Marianne Stewart, and Paul Whiteley. 2011. “Yes We Can! Valence Politics And Electoral Choice In America, 2008.” Electoral Studies 30:450-461. 7. Reifler, Jason, Thomas J. Scotto, and Harold Clarke. 2011. “Foreign Policy Beliefs in Contemporary Britain: Structure and Relevance.” International Studies Quarterly 55(1): 245-266. 6. Scotto, Thomas J., Harold Clarke, Allan Kornberg, Jason Reifler, David Sanders, Marianne Stewart, and Paul Whiteley. 2010. “The Dynamic Political Economy of Support for Barack Obama during the 2008 Presidential Election Campaign.” Electoral Studies 29(4):545-556. 5. Nyhan, Brendan and Jason Reifler. 2010. “When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions.” Political Behavior 32(2):303-330. 4. Gelpi, Christopher and Jason Reifler. 2008. “Success Still Matters: A Response to Berinsky and Druckman.” Public Opinion Quarterly 72(1):125-133. 3. Gelpi, Christopher, Jason Reifler, and Peter Feaver. 2007. “Iraq the Vote: Retrospective and Prospec- tive Foreign Policy Judgments on Candidate Choice and Casualty Tolerance.” 2007. Political Behavior 29(2):151-174.

2. Aldrich, John, Peter Feaver, Christopher Gelpi, Jason Reiﬂer, and Kristin Sharp. 2006. “Foreign Policy and the Electoral Connection.” 2006. Annual Review of Political Science 9:477-502. 1. Gelpi, Christopher, Peter Feaver, and Jason Reiﬂer. 2005/2006. “Success Matters: Casualty Sensitivity and the War in Iraq.” International Security 30(3):7-46.

Book Chapters 4. Lyons, Benjamin, Vittorio Merola, and Jason Reiﬂer. 2020. “How Bad is the Fake News Problem? The Role of Baseline Information in Public Perceptions” The psychology of fake news: Accepting, sharing, and correcting misinformation, eds. R. Greifeneder, M Jaﬀe, E. Newman, & N. Schwarz. Routledge.

3. Clarke, Harold, Jason Reifler, Thomas Scotto, and Marianne Stewart. 2016. “It’s Spring Again! Voting in the 2015 Federal Election” in The Canadian Federal Election of 2015, eds. Jon Pammet and Christopher Dornan. Toronto, Canada: Durndun. 2. Clarke, Harold, Thomas Scotto, Jason Reifler, and Allan Kornberg. 2011. “Winners and Losers: Voters in the 2011 Federal Election” in The Canadian Federal Election of 2011, eds. Jon Pammet and Christopher Dornan. Toronto, Canada: Durndun. 1. Wilcox, Clyde, Alexandra Cooper, Peter Francia, John C. Green, Paul S. Herrnson, Lynda Powell, Jason Reifler, Mark Rozell, and Ben Webster. “With Limits Raised, Who Will Give More? The Impact of BCRA on Individual Donors to Federal Candidates” in Life After Reform: When The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act Meets Politics, ed. Michael Malbin. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003.

Public reports and brieﬁng papers 12. Thomson, Catarlina, Thomas J. Scotto, and Jason Reiﬂer. 2020. “Seeing ‘I’ to ‘I’: British support for idealism and interest-based approaches to foreign policy.” In Adam Hug, Protecting the UK’s Ability to Defend its Values, The Foreign Policy Centre E-Symposium: https://fpc.org.uk/seeing-i-to- i-british-support-for-idealism-and-interest-based-approaches-to-foreign-policy/.

5 11. Gavras, Konstantin, Thomas J. Scotto, Jason Reifler, Stephanie Hofmann, Catarina Thomson, Matthias Mader, and Harald Schoen. “NATO and CSDP: Party and public positioning in Germany and France.” NATO Defense College: NDC Policy Brief 11-20. http://www.ndc.nato.int/news/news.php?icode= 1444 10. Guess, Andrew, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. 2018. “All Media Trust Is Local? Findings from the 2018 Poynter Media Trust Survey.” Prepared for The Poynter Institute. http://www- personal.umich.edu/~bnyhan/media-trust-report-2018.pdf. 9. Thomson, Catarina, Jason Reifler, and Thomas Scotto. 2018. “Perceptions on NATO and Defence Pol- icy. Public Opinion in the UK, France, Germany and the United States and Security Elite Views in the UK.” Written evidence for the Defence Select Committee, United Kingdom Parliament. http://data. parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/defence-committee/ the-indispensable-ally-us-nato-and-uk-defence-relations/written/71819.pdf 8. Guess, Andrew, Benjamin Lyons, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. 2018. “Avoiding the echo chambers about echo chambers: Why selective exposure to like-minded political news is less prevalent than you think.” Prepared for the Knight Foundation. https://kf-site-production.s3.amazonaws. com/media_elements/files/000/000/133/original/Topos_KF_White-Paper_Nyhan_V1.pdf 7. Guess, Andrew, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. 2017. “You’re fake news: Findings from the 2017 Poynter Media Trust Survey.” Prepared for The Poynter Institute (and presented at the Poynter Jour- nalism Ethics Summit). https://poyntercdn.blob.core.windows.net/files/PoynterMediaTrustSurvey2017. pdf 6. Nyhan, Brendan and Jason Reifler 2015. “Estimating Fact-checking’s Effects: Evidence from a long-term experiment during campaign 2014.” Prepared for the American Press Institute (Fact- Checking Project Report).http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/ 04/Estimating-Fact-Checkings-Effect.pdf 5. Graves, Lucas, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. 2015. “The Diffusion of Fact-checking: Understand- ing the growth of a journalistic innovation.” Prepared for the American Press Institute (Fact-Checking Project Report). http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/The- Growth-of-Fact-Checking.pdf 4. Nyhan, Brendan and Jason Reifler. 2013. “Which Corrections Work? Research results and prac- tice recommendations.” New America Foundation Media Policy Initiative Research Paper. http: //newamerica.net/publications/policy/which_corrections_work. 3. Nyhan, Brendan and Jason Reifler. 2013. “The Effects of Fact-checking Threat: Results from a Field experiment in the states.” New America Foundation Media Policy Initiative Research Paper. http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/the_effects_of_fact_checking_threat 2. Nyhan, Brendan and Jason Reifler. 2012. “Misinformation and Fact-checking: Research Findings from Social Science.” New America Foundation, Media Policy Initiative. http://newamerica.net/sites/ newamerica.net/files/policydocs/Misinformation_and_Fact-checking.pdf 1. Scotto, Thomas, Jason Reifler, Harold Clarke, Julio Amador Diaz Lopez, David Sanders, Marianne Stewart, and Paul Whiteley. 2010. “Attitudes towards British Involvement in Afghanistan.” University of Essex, Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution. http://www.idcr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/03_11.pdf

Book Reviews 1. Review of In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq by Adam Berinsky and Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Aﬀect the Public by Jennifer Merolla and Elizabeth Zechmeister. Perspectives on Politics 8(3):949-951.

6 Non-refereed articles 1. Gelpi, Christopher and Jason Reiﬂer. 2006 “Casualties, Polls, and the Iraq War.” 2006. International Security 31(2): 194-198. [Rejoinder to Louis Klarevas published in letters section; not peer reviewed.]

Guest Editorials (Op-eds and blog posts) 7. “Why people believe in conspiracy theories.” (with Benjamin Lyons and Vittorio Merola). Guest post at the ESRC Shaping Society blog, February 12, 2018. . https://blog.esrc.ac.uk/2018/02/13/ why-people-believe-in-conspiracy-theories/#more-4885 6. “What does the public really think about NATO?” (with Thomas J. Scotto, Harold D. Clarke, and Paul Whiteley). Guest blog post at The Conversation (UK), September 4, 2014. http://theconversation. com/what-does-the-public-really-think-about-nato-31251 5. “Public backs removing citizenship from Britons ﬁghting abroad — even for a good cause” (with Thomas J. Scotto, Harold D. Clarke, and Paul Whiteley). Guest blog post at The Conversation (UK), August 28, 2014. http://theconversation.com/public-backs-removing-citizenship-from-britons- fighting-abroad-even-for-a-good-cause-30950 4. “Fact-checkers can help keep ACA debate honest” (with Brendan Nyhan). Guest editorial in Politico, October 7, 2013. 3. “The Casket Dilemma of War: Focus on Victory, Not Optics” (with Peter Feaver and Christopher Gelpi). Guest editorial in the Toronto Globe and Mail, March 2, 2009. Also published (under diﬀerent titles) in the Seattle Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer. 2. “Speakout: What the public really thinks of Iraq” (with Christopher Gelpi). Guest editorial in the Rocky Mountain News, December 12, 2005. Column was syndicated and published in the Newark Star-Ledger, Raleigh News & Observer, and other newspapers.

1. “Iraq Messages Need Honing” (with Peter Feaver and Christopher Gelpi). Guest editorial in Newsday, September 23, 2004.

Grants and Awards External Awards 21. Volkswagen Stiftung “European Common Defense and Shared Security in Times of COVID-19” (2021- 2022, Co-PI, Matthias Mader PI). 20. Volkswagen Stiftung “Reclaiming individual autonomy and democratic discourse online: How to re- balance human and algorithmic decision making” (2021-2024, Co-Investigator, Ralph Hertwig and Stephan Lewandowsky PIs).

19. National Science Foundation SES-2103262 “RAPID: COVID-19 and Perceptions of Electoral Integrity” (2020-2021, Co-PI, $180,448, Brian Fogarty PI). 18. British Academy SRG20\200348 “Distrust, Conspiracies, and the Political Challenges of Coping with COVID-19” (2020-2021, Co-PI, £9,995, Florian Stoeckel PI). 17. Economic and Social Research Council ES/V004883/1 “COVID-19 (Mis)Information Exposure and Messaging Eﬀects in the United Kingdom” (2020-2021, PI, £308,109). 16. National Science Foundation SES-2028485 “RAPID: COVID-19 Information Exposure and Messaging Eﬀects (in the United States)” (2020-2021, Co-PI, $199,027, Brendan Nyhan PI).

7 15. UKRI (United Kingdom Research and Innovation) Global Challenges Research Fund “Battling Elec- toral Misinformation on Social Media in Low Digital Literacy Environments: Lessons and Solutions from Northern Ghana” (2019, Co-I, £29,500, Elena Gadjanova PI). 14. Russell Sage Foundation “Assessing Algorithmic and Human Selective Exposure to Political Informa- tion” (2019-2020, Co-PI, $172,057, Brendan Nyhan PI). 13. Volkswagen Stiftung Challenges for Europe “Fighting together, moving apart? European common defence and shared security in an age of Brexit and Trump.” (2018-2021, Co-PI, e977,200, Harald Schoen PI).

12. ERC Consolidator Grant: “Debunker: The Problem of European Misperceptions in Politics, Health, and Science: Causes, Consequences, and the Search for Solutions.” (2016-2021, PI, e1,931,730). 11. Democracy Fund/American Press Institute “Research to improve fact-checking” (2014-2015, Co-PI with Brendan Nyhan and Lucas Graves, $193,000) 10. Economic and Social Research Council (United Kingdom) ES/L011867/1 “Public Opinion and the Syrian Crisis in Three Democracies” (2013-2014, £183,451, co-PI with Thomas J. Scotto, Harold Clarke, and Paul Whiteley) 9. Democracy Fund/New America Foundation “Countering Misinformation and Strengthening Online Discourse” (2012-2013, Co-PI with Brendan Nyhan, $82,600). (Part of “Experiments to Promote Media Reform and Government Transparency”, 2012-2013, $388,367, Co-PI with Lucas Graves, Brendan Nyhan, and Talia Stroud).

8. University of Michigan/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars Small Grant Program ( “Messages to improve MMR vaccination” 2011, $23,410, Brendan Nyhan PI) [Internal award for the PI] 7. TESS: Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences Grant “Race and the Obama Muslim Myth” (2010-2012, Co-PI with Brendan Nyhan, approximate value $10,000) 6. NSF SES-1104007 “Assessing Voter Strategic Behavior in the 2010 Midterm Elections” (2010-2011, $34,335, PI) 5. NSF SES-1003254 “Perpetual Minority Government in Canada? Electoral Choice in the Midst of Political and Economic Crises in a Contemporary Mature Democracy” (2010-2011, $72,562, PI) 4. Economic and Social Research Council (United Kingdom) RES-061-25-0405 “The Structure, Causes, and Consequences of Foreign Policy Attitudes” (2010-2013, £392,343 Co-investigator, Thomas J. Scotto PI) 3. International Studies Association Venture Grant “Integrating Research on Domestic and Foreign Policy Opinions” (2009, $24,875, Co-PI with William O. Chittick) 2. British Academy “The Structure and Depth of British Internationalism: Balancing Foreign Policy Ideals with Human and Financial Costs” (2007-2009,£5,918 [approx. $12,000], co-PI with Thomas J. Scotto) 1. NSF SES-0424085 “Small Grant for Exploratory Research: Casualties, Expectations of Victory, and Public Support for Military Operations” (2004-2005, $20,000, Co-PI with Peter Feaver and Chris Gelpi)

Internal Awards 2. Georgia State University Technology Fee Grant “Software for a Political Psychology lab.” (2008, $4,500, with Sean Richey)

1. Faculty Research Support Grant, Loyola University Chicago (2005, $1,000)

8 Fellowships and Other Awards 6. Honorable Mention Best Paper Award (APSA Information and Technology section) for the paper “Inside the Fake News Bubble? Consumption of online fake news in the 2016 U.S. election” (with Andrew Guess and Brendan Nyhan).

5. 2017 Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award (APSA Political Communication section) for the paper “Do people actually learn from Fact-Checking? Evidence from a longitudinal study during the 2014 campaign” (with Brendan Nyhan). 4. ‘Rewarding Excellence’ Gold Award, University of Exeter (2016)

3. Robert K. Steel Family Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University (2004, $4,000) 2. Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) MPSA Travel Grant (2004) 1. EITM Summer Fellowship, University of Michigan (2003)

Teaching and Advising

• Research Experience (POL3231) ◦ AY 2020-2021 – 12 students ◦ AY 2019-2020 – 12 students ◦ AY 2018-2019 – 6 students • War and Public Opinion (POL3120) ◦ AY 2015-2016 – 21 students ◦ AY 2014-2015 – 22 students ◦ AY 2013-2014 – 20 students • Experimental Research in the Social Sciences (POL2071) ◦ Fall 2015 – 23 students ◦ Fall 2013 – 7 students

• Power and Democracy (POL1019) ◦ Spring 2015 – 351 students

Additional Undergraduate Courses Taught (USA) • War and Public Opinion. Georgia State University. Fall 2009, Fall 2012 (approximately 60 students total).

• Political Psychology. Georgia State University. 5 sections from Spring 2009 to Spring 2013 (approximately 250 students total)

• Introduction to American Government. Georgia State University. 17 sections from Fall 2007 to Spring 2013 (approximately 2500 students total) , plus 2 honors sections (Fall 2010, Fall 2011) (approximately 40 students total).

• Global Issues. Georgia State University. May 2012 (approximately 15 students total). • The Legislative Process. Loyola University Chicago. Fall 2005, Spring 2007 (approximately 60 students total).

9 • Introduction to American Politics. Loyola University Chicago. Spring 2006, Spring 2007 (approximately 80 students total). • Campaign Strategy and Tactics. Duke University. Fall 2003 (approximately 20 students). • Quantitative Political Analysis I. Duke University. Fall 2003 (approximately 30 students).

Additional Graduate Courses Taught (USA) • Political Psychology. Georgia State University. Spring 2009, Fall 2010 (approximately 25 students total). • War and Public Opinion. Georgia State University. Fall 2009 (approximately 15 students). • Political Analysis II. Loyola University Chicago. Spring 2006 (approximately 10 students). • Political Analysis I. Loyola University Chicago. Fall 2005, Fall 2006 (approximately 20 students total). • American Legislative Branch. Loyola University Chicago. Fall 2006 (approximately 20 students total).

Graduate Students PhD Dissertations Chaired (UK) • Second supervisor for Deoggyo (Dennis) Seo “South Korean National Assembly: The role of committee staﬀers as information providers and network managers in the scrutiny of government law bills.” Successfully defended June 2017.

PhD Dissertations Chaired (USA) • Chair, PhD Dissertation Committee for Holly Teresi (“Wired for Influence: A Series of Experiments Evaluating the Ability of Peer Interaction Through Social Media to Influence Political Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior”). Successfully defended April 2012. ◦ Currently Senior Research at Cox Automative (Atlanta, GA) • Co-Chair (with Charles Hankla), PhD Dissertation Committee for Attasit Pankeaw (“The Political Benefits of Decentralization”). Successfully defended April 2010. ◦ Currently Associate Professor at Thammasat University (Bangkok, Thailand)

PhD Dissertations Committees (USA) • Member, PhD Dissertation Committee for James “Ben” Taylor (“The Beneﬁts of Extreme Media”). Successfully defended January 2013.

Masters Theses Supervised (UK) • Oliver Bradburne (“Containing North Korea”) • Alexandra Mochalova (“Assessing the State of the Russian-American Relations since 2012”)

Masters Theses Chaired (USA) • Chair, MA Thesis Committee for Paul Ian Thomas (“Public Support for Just Wars”). Successfully defended Summer 2012. • Chair, MA Thesis Committee for Jeﬀ Glas (“The Priming Eﬀects of Polling Location on Ballot Initia- tive Voting Decisions”). Successfully defended Summer 2011. • Chair, MA Thesis Committee for Holly Teresi (“Friending Your Way to Political Knowledge”). Suc- cessfully defended Fall 2010.

10 Masters Theses Committees (USA) • Member, MA Thesis Committee for James “Ben” Taylor (“Examining Persuadable Voters and Base Mobilization in the 2004 Presidential Election: The Case of Wedge Issue Ballot Measures”). Success- fully defended March 2009.

• Member, MA Thesis Committee for Junyan “Sophie” Zhu (“How Campaigns Change Voters’ Policy Positions: An Analysis of Shifting Attitudes Towards the Redistribution of Wealth”). Successfully defended May 2012.

Service University Service (excludes roles listed elsewhere) • Member, Covid Academic Advisory Group (CAAG), 2020- • Member, University of Exeter, Lecture Capture Policy Board, 2015-2016. • Member, Georgia State University Institutional Review Board, June 2012-July 2013.

Department Service University of Exeter • Academic Lead (Politics), 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021.

• Director of Education (Politics), May 2014-July 2016. • Director of Admissions (Politics), 2013-2014.

Georgia State • Member, Department of Political Science Executive Committee. ◦ Fall 2012-Spring 2013 ◦ Fall 2010-Spring 2011 • Member, Department of Political Science Graduate Program Committee. ◦ Fall 2010-Spring 2011 ◦ Fall 2009-Spring 2010 ◦ Fall 2008-Fall 2009 • Member, Department of Political Science ad hoc Grant Policy Committee. Fall 2010-Spring 2011.

Service to the Discipline • Grant review activities – Panelist, Irish Research Council Laureate scheme (2017-2018) – Reviewer of proposals for National Science Foundation (US), European Research Council, Eco- nomic and Social Research Council (UK), Irish Research Council (from service as panelist), Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Time Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (US), Swiss National Science Foundation, Democracy Fund, and others.

• Editorial Boards ◦ Political Behavior

11 ◦ Electoral Studies ◦ Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties ◦ International Journal Press/Politics • Treasurer, Political Psychology APSA section 2013-2015

• Chair, 2012 Best Dissertation Award Committee, APSA Experimental Research Section. • Member, 2011 Best Paper Award Committee, APSA Political Psychology Section. • Member, 2018 Best Paper Award Committee, APSA Political Communiucation Section.

Updated February 2021