RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political Health Communication
Designing communication-based interventions to correct misinformation, encourage pro-social health behavior, and increase support for evidence-based health policy on politically and socially contentious issues.
Health Politics, Policy, & Opinion
Identifying the social, psychological, and political origins -- and assessing public health consequences -- of health misinformation and opposition to evidence-based health policies.
Environmental Opinion & Communication
Identifying the socio-political causes and environmental/health policy consequences of belief in anthropogenic climate change, and using that information to inform strategic climate communication.
Survey Methodology
Data quality, questionnaire design, question wording effects
Experimental Methodology
Randomized controlled trials, survey experiments, conjoint experiments, quasi- & naturally occurring experiments, regression discontinuity, and difference-in-difference estimation.