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POST-DOC
PHILIP PARNAMETS - NYU Social Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow
Philip completed his PhD in cognitive science at Lund University and has spent two years as a postdoc with the Emotion Lab at Karolinska Institutet. His research is grounded in a broad interest in the cognitive and computational mechanisms underlying preference change, decision making and learning, especially in the moral domain. In the Social Identity and Morality lab his work focuses on dynamic models of social learning about moral agents and of moral choices generally. Philip spends his spare time creating, listening or dancing to electronic music.
New York University
Director: Jay Van Bavel
WHO WE ARE
From neurons to social networks, we examine how collective concerns—group identities, moral values, and political beliefs—shape the mind, brain, and behavior. To study these issues, we employ methods from cognitive neuroscience, social cognition, behavioral economics, and computational social science.
Van Bavel, J. J., *Robertson, C., *del Rosario, K., Rasmussen, J., & *Rathje, S., (2024). Annual Review of Psychology, 75.
Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research.
Doell, K., Berman, M. G., Bratman, G. N., Kuhn, S., Knutson, B., Lamm, C., Pahl, S., Sawe, N., Van Bavel, J. J., White, M., & Brosch, T. (2023). Nature Climate Change, 13, 1288-1297.
A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioral science during COVID-19.
Ruggeri, K., Stock, F., Haslam, S.A., Capraro, V., Boggio, P., Ellemers, N., Cichocka, A., Douglas, K. M., Rand, D. G., van der Linden, S., Cikara, M., Finkel, E., Druckman, J. N., Wohl, M. A., Petty, R., Tucker, J. A., Shariff, A., Gelfand, M., Packer, D., Jetten, J., Van Lange, P., Pennycook, G., Peters, E., Baicker, K., Crum, A., Weeden, K., Napper, L. E., Tabri, N., Zaki, J., Skitka, L., Kitayama, S., Mobbs, D., Sunstein, C., Ashcroft-Jones, S., Todsen, A. L., Hajian, A., Verra, S. E., Buehler, V., Friedemann, M., Hecht, M., Mobarak, R. S., Karakasheva, R., Tünte, M., T., Yeung, S. K., Rosenbaum, R. S., Lep, Ž., Yamada, Y., Hudson, S. T. J., Macchia, L., Soboleva, I., Dimant, E., Geiger, S. J., Jarke, H., Wingen, T., Berkessel, J. B., Mareva, S., McGill, L., Papa, F., Većkalov, B., Afif, Z., Buabang, E. K., Landman, M., Tavera, F., Andrews, J., Bursalıoğlu, A., Zupan, Z., Wagner, L., Navajas, J., Vranka, M., Kasdan, D. O., Chen, P., Hudson, S.T.J., Novak, L. M., Teas, P. E., Rachev, N. R., Galizzi, M.M., Milkman, K. L., Petrović, M.B., Van Bavel, J. J., & Willer, R. (2023). Nature.
Does social media increase polarization?
What motivates groups to cooperate?
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Why do people spread misinformation?
Beyond doom and gloom, here's how to stimulate climate action
Madalina Vlasceanu & Jay Van Bavel
February 2024, Scientific American
Why we click on stuff we know we won't like.
Steve Rathje & Jay Van Bavel
December 2023, The Boston Globe
This leadership approach can help anyone build a shared mission.
Jay Van Bavel & Dominic Packer
January 2023, Quartz
Our research has been cited over 140 times across 128 public policy documents globally. To see an up-to-date list of what policies have cited our research, click here.
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