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Email: brendan.j.nyhan@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-2894
Hinman Box: HB 6108
B.A., Swarthmore College
M.A., Duke University
Ph.D., Duke University
Political scandal
Political misperceptions
Social networks
Applied statistical methods
Beliefs Dont Always Persevere: How political figures are punished when positive information about them is discredited . Forthcoming, Political Psychology. (with Michael Cobb and Jason Reifler)
The Role of Social Networks in Influenza Vaccine Attitudes and Intentions Among College Students in the Southeastern United States . 2012. Journal of Adolescent Health 51(3): 302-304. (with Jason Reifler and Sean Richey)
One Vote Out of Step? The Effects of Salient Roll Call Votes in the 2010 Election . 2012. American Politics Research 40(5): 844-879. (with Eric McGhee, John Sides, Seth Masket, and Steven Greene)
The Limited Effects of Testimony on Political Persuasion . 2011. Public Choice 148(3-4): 283-312.
The Unfriending Problem: The Consequences of Homophily in Friendship Retention for Causal Estimates of Social Influence . 2011. Social Networks 33(3): 211-218. (with Hans Noel)
When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions . 2010. Political Behavior 32(2): 303-330. (with Jason Reifler)
Bayesian Model Averaging: Theoretical Developments and Practical Applications . 2010. Political Analysis 18(2): 245-270. (with Jacob Montgomery)
Passing the Bucks: Partisan contribution networks and theories of congressional organization (with Michael Tofias)
The Hazards of Correcting Myths about Health Care Reform (with Jason Reifler and Peter Ubel)
The Effects of Semantics and Social Desirability in Correcting the Obama Muslim Myth (with Jason Reifler and undergraduates from my PS 199AS class at Duke)
Opening the Political Mind? The effects of self-affirmation and graphical information on factual misperceptions (with Jason Reifler)
