Publications

2024

Barreras, Francisco (Paco); Watts, Duncan J.

The exciting potential and daunting challenge of using GPS human-mobility data for epidemic modeling Journal Article

In: Natural Computational Science, vol. 4, pp. 398-411, 2024.

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Li, Bryan; Haider, Samar; Callison-Burch, Chris

This Land is {Your, My} Land: Evaluating Geopolitical Biases in Language Models Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pp. 3855-3871, 2024.

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Budak, Ceren; Nyhan, Brendan; Rothschild, David M.; Emily Thorson,; Watts, Duncan J.

Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation Journal Article

In: Nature , vol. 630 , pp. 45-53, 2024.

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Allen, Jennifer; Watts, Duncan J.; Rand, David G.

Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook Journal Article

In: Science, vol. 384, iss. 6699, 2024.

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Hosseinmardi, Homa; Ghasemian, Amir; Rivera-Lanas, Miguel; Horta Ribeiro, Manoel; West, Robert; Watts, Duncan J.

Causally estimating the effect of YouTube’s recommender system using counterfactual bots Journal Article

In: PNAS, vol. 121, iss. 8, 2024.

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Whiting, Mark E.; Watts, Duncan J.

A framework for quantifying individual and collective common sense Journal Article

In: PNAS, vol. 121, iss. 4, 2024.

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2023

Almaatouq, Abdullah; Alsobay, Mohammed; Yin, Ming; Watts, Duncan J.

The Effects of Group Composition and Dynamics on Collective Performance Journal Article

In: Topics in Cognitive Science, 2023.

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Ribeiro, Manoel Horta; Hosseinmardi, Homa; West, Robert; Watts, Duncan J.

Deplatforming did not decrease Parler users’ activity on fringe social media Journal Article

In: PNAS Nexus, vol. 2, iss. 3, 2023.

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2022

Almaatouq, Abdullah; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Suchow, Jordan W.; Whiting, Mark E.; Evans, James; Watts, Duncan J.

Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature: Integrative Experiment Design in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Journal Article

In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2022.

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Milkman, Katherine L.; Gandhi, Linnea; Ellis, Sean F.; Graci, Heather N.; Gromet, Dena M.; Mobarak, Rayyan S.; Buttenheim, Alison M.; Duckworth, Angela L.; Pope, Devin; Stanford, Ala; Thaler, Richard; Volpp, Kevin G.

A citywide experiment testing the impact of geographically targeted, high-pay-off vaccine lotteries Journal Article

In: Nature Human Behavior, 2022, ISSN: 2397-3374.

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Muise, Daniel; Hosseinmardi, Homa; Howland, Baird; Mobius, Markus; Rothschild, David; Watts, Duncan J.

Quantifying partisan news diets in Web and TV audiences Journal Article

In: Science Advances, vol. 8, iss. 28, 2022.

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2021

Balietti, Stefano; Getoor, Lise; Goldstein, Daniel G.; Watts, Duncan J.

Reducing opinion polarization: Effects of exposure to similar people with differing political views Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, no. 52, 2021.

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Lifchits, George; Anderson, Ashton; Goldstein, Daniel G.; Hofman, Jake M.; Watts, Duncan J.

Success stories cause false beliefs about success Journal Article

In: Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1439-1463, 2021, ISSN: 1930-2975.

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Almaatouq, Abdullah; Alsobay, Mohammed; Yin, Ming; Watts, Duncan J.

Task complexity moderates group synergy Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, no. 36, 2021.

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Konitzer, Tobias; Allen, Jennifer; Eckman, Stephanie; Howland, Baird; Mobius, Markus; Rothschild, David; Watts, Duncan J.

Comparing Estimates of News Consumption from Survey and Passively Collected Behavioral Data Journal Article

In: Public Opinion Quarterly, 2021.

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Hosseinmardi, Homa; Ghasemian, Amir; Clauset, Aaron; Mobius, Markus; Rothschild, David M.; Watts, Duncan J.

Examining the consumption of radical content on YouTube Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, no. 32, 2021.

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Allen, Jennifer; Mobius, Markus; Rothschild, David M.; Watts, Duncan J.

Research note: Examining potential bias in large-scale censored data Journal Article

In: Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review, 2021.

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Hofman, Jake M.; Watts, Duncan J.; Athey, Susan; Garip, Filiz; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Kleinberg, Jon; Margetts, Helen; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Salganik, Matthew J.; Vazire, Simine; Vespignani, Alessandro; Yarkoni, Tal

Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science Journal Article

In: Nature, vol. 595, pp. 181-188, 2021.

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Almaatouq, Abdullah; Becker, Joshua; Bernstein, Michael S.; Botto, Robert; Bradlow, Eric T.; Damer, Ekaterina; Duckworth, Angela; Griffiths, Tom; Hartshorne, Joshua K.; Lazer, David; Law, Edith; Liu, Min; Matias, J. Nathan; Rand, David; Salganik, Matthew; Emma Satlof-Bedrick, Maurice Schweitzer; Shirado, Hirokazu; Suchow, Jordan W.; Suri, Siddharth; Tsvetkova, Milena; Watts, Duncan J.; Whiting, Mark E.; Yin., Ming

Scaling up experimental social, behavioral, and economic science Technical Report

2021.

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Barreras, Francisco; Hayhoe, Mikhail; Hassani, Hamed; Preciado, Victor M.

AutoEKF: Scalable System Identification for COVID-19 Forecasting from Large-Scale GPS Data Journal Article

In: arXiv Preprint, pp. 6, 2021.

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Hu, Xinlan Emily; Whiting, Mark; Bernstein, Michael

Can Online Juries Make Consistent, Repeatable Decisions? Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-16, 2021.

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Gamage, Dilrukshi; Staubitz, Thomas; Whiting, Mark

Peer assessment in MOOCs: Systematic literature review Journal Article

In: Distance Education, pp. 1-22, 2021.

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Jacobs, Abigail Z.; Watts, Duncan J.

A Large-Scale Comparative Study of Informal Social Networks in Firms Journal Article

In: Management Science, pp. 1-21, 2021.

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Cao, Hancheng; Yang, Vivian; Chen, Victor; Lee, Yu Jin; Stone, Lydia; Diarrassouba, N'godjigui Junior; Whiting, Mark; Bernstein, Michael

My Team Will Go On: Differentiating High and Low Viability Teams through Team Interaction Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the ACM Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 4, no. CSCW3, pp. 1-27, 2021.

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Almaatouq, Abdullah; Becker, Joshua; Houghton, James P; Paton, Nicolas; Watts, Duncan J; Whiting, Mark E

Empirica: a virtual lab for high-throughput macro-level experiments Journal Article

In: Behavior Research Methods, pp. 1–14, 2021.

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Watts, Duncan J; Rothschild, David M; Mobius, Markus

Measuring the news and its impact on democracy Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, no. 15, 2021.

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2020

Ghasemian, Amir; Hosseinmardi, Homa; Galstyan, Aram; Airoldi, Edoardo; Clauset, Aaron

Stacking models for nearly optimal link prediction in complex networks Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117, no. 38, pp. 23393-23400, 2020.

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Lazer, David M. J.; Pentland, Alex; Watts, Duncan J.; Aral, Sinan; Athey, Susan; Contractor, Noshir; Freelon, Deen; Gonzalez-Bailon, Sandra; King, Gary; Margetts, Helen; Nelson, Alondra; Salganik, Matthew J.; Strohmaier, Markus; Vespignani, Alessandro; Wagner, Claudia

Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities Journal Article

In: Science, vol. 369, no. 6507, pp. 1060-1062, 2020.

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Whiting, Mark; Bernstein, Michael

Can We Just Start Over Again? Resetting Remote Team Dynamics Journal Article

In: 2020.

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Whiting, Mark; Gao, Irena; Xing, Michelle; N’godjigui, Junior Diarrassouba; Nguyen, Tonya; Bernstein, Michael

Parallel Worlds: Repeated Initializations of the Same Team To Improve Team Viability Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the ACM Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 4, no. CSCW1, pp. 22, 2020.

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Allen, Jennifer; Howland, Baird; Mobius, Markus; Rothschild, David; Watts, Duncan J

Evaluating the fake news problem at the scale of the information ecosystem Journal Article

In: Science Advances, vol. 6, no. 14, pp. eaay3539, 2020.

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2019

Whiting, Mark; Blaising, Allie; Barreau, Chloe; Fiuza, Laura; Marda, Nik; Valentine, Melissa; Bernstein, Michael

Did It Have To End This Way? Understanding the Consistency of Team Fracture Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the ACM Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 3, no. 209, pp. 23, 2019.

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Whiting, Mark; Hugh, Grant; Bernstein, Michael

Fair work: Crowd work minimum wage with one line of code Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 197-206, 2019.

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Salganik, Matthew J.

Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Latest Articles, pp. 1-6, 2019.

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Risi, Joseph; Sharma, Amit; Shah, Rohan; Connelly, Matthew; Watts, Duncan J.

Predicting history Journal Article

In: Nature Human Behavior, vol. 3, pp. 906–912, 2019.

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Hosseinmardi, Homa; Kao, Hsien-Te; Lerman, Kristina; Ferrara, Emilio

Discovering hidden structure in high dimensional human behavioral data via tensor factorization Journal Article

In: pp. 5, 2019.

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Kao, Hsien-Te; Yan, Shen; Huang, Di; Bartley, Nathan; Hosseinmardi, Homa; Ferrara, Emilio

Understanding Cyberbullying on Instagram and Ask.fm via Social Role Detection Journal Article

In: Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference, pp. 183-188, 2019.

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Ghasemian, Amir; Hosseinmardi, Homa; Clauset, Aaron

Evaluating overfit and underfit in models of network community structure Journal Article

In: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 32, no. 9, pp. 1722-1735, 2019.

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Meyer, Michelle N; Heck, Patrick R; Holtzman, Geoffrey S; Anderson, Stephen M; Cai, William; Watts, Duncan J; Chabris, Christopher F

Objecting to experiments that compare two unobjectionable policies or treatments Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 116, no. 22, pp. 10723–10728, 2019.

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2018

Sharma, Amit; Hofman, Jake M.; Watts, Duncan J.

Split-Door Criterion: Identification of Causal Effects Through Auxiliary Outcomes Journal Article

In: The Annals of Applied Statistics, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 2699-2733, 2018.

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Lazer, David M. J.; Baum, Matthew A.; Benkler, Yochai; Berinsky, Adam J.; Greenhill, Kelly M.; Menczer, Filippo; Metzger, Miriam J.; Nyhan, Brendan; Pennycook, Gordon; Rothschild, David; Schudson, Michael; Sloman, Steven A.; Sunstein, Cass R.; Thorson, Emily A.; Watts, Duncan J.; Zittrain, Jonathan L.

The science of fake news Journal Article

In: Science, vol. 359, no. 6380, pp. 1094-1096, 2018.

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Benjamin, Daniel J.

Redefine statistical significance Journal Article

In: Nature Human Behavior, vol. 2, pp. 6-10, 2018.

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2017

Houghton, James P.; Siegel, Michael; Madnick, Stuart; Tounaka, Nobuaki; Nakamura, Kazutaka; Sugiyama, Takaaki; Nakagawa, Daisuke; Shirnen, Buyanjargal

Beyond Keywords: Tracking the evolution of conversational clusters in social media Journal Article

In: Sociological Methods & Research, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 588-607, 2017.

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Jasny, B. R.; Wigginton, N.; McNutt, M.; Bubela, T.; Buck, S.; Cook-Deegan, R.; Gardner, T.; Hanson, B.; Hustad, C.; Kiermer, V.; Lazer, D.; Lupia, A.; Manrai, A.; McConnell, L.; Noonan, K.; Phimister, E.; Simon, B.; Strandburg, K.; Summers, Z.; Watts, D.

Fostering reproducibility in industry-academia research Journal Article

In: Science, vol. 357, no. 6353, pp. 759-761, 2017.

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Hofman, Jake M; Sharma, Amit; Watts, Duncan J

Prediction and explanation in social systems Journal Article

In: Science, vol. 355, no. 6324, pp. 486–488, 2017.

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Watts, Duncan J

Should social science be more solution-oriented? Journal Article

In: Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1–5, 2017.

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2014

Watts, Duncan

Common Sense and Sociological Explanations Journal Article

In: American Journal of Sociology, vol. 120, no. 2, pp. 313-351, 2014.

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2011

Watts, Duncan J.

Everything Is Obvious Book

Crown, 2011, ISBN: 9780385531696, 0385531699.

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