Brendan Nyhan

Dartmouth College — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

53h-index25.1kcitations267works10.82yr avg
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Research Topics

Misinformation and Its Impacts(90), Media Influence and Politics(63), Electoral Systems and Political Participation(53), Social Media and Politics(48), Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection(27)

Publications267 total

Reducing affective polarization does not affect false news sharing or truth discernment
Research & Politics·2026Open Access
Debunking NIMBY Myths Increases Support for Affordable Housing, Especially Near Respondents’ Homes
Journal of Experimental Political Science·2025Open Access
The Effects of Unsubstantiated Claims of Voter Fraud on Confidence in Elections – CORRIGENDUM
Journal of Experimental Political Science·2025Open Access
Partisanship Unmasked? The Role of Politics and Social Norms in COVID-19 Mask-Wearing Behavior – CORRIGENDUM
Journal of Experimental Political Science·2025Open Access
Prebunking and credible source corrections increase election credibility: Evidence from the US and Brazil
Science Advances·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
The Effects of Political Advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US Election
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
What nudges you to take a vaccine? Understanding behavioural drivers of COVID-19 vaccinations using large-scale experiments in the G-7 countries
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State
2025· 3 citedOpen Access
How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?
UNC Libraries·2025· 10 citedOpen Access
Reshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions
UNC Libraries·2025Open Access
State media tagging does not affect perceived tweet accuracy: Evidence from a U.S. Twitter experiment in 2022
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Redefine statistical significance
UNC Libraries·2025· 21 citedOpen Access
The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
The Effects of Political Advertising on Facebook and Instagram Before the 2020 US Election
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Losing predicts perceptions that elections were decided by fraud, but margin of loss and candidate race do not
Electoral Studies·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Public opinion alone won’t save democracy
Science·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
The Narrow Reach of Targeted Corrections: No Impact on Broader Beliefs About Election Integrity
Political Behavior·2024· 9 cited
Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation
Nature·2024· 115 cited
The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2024· 56 citedOpen Access
How the relationship between education and antisemitism varies between countries
Research & Politics·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jason Reifler(21), Andrew M. Guess(14), Jacob Montgomery(8), Emily Thorson(6), Joshua A. Tucker(6), David Lazer(5), Pablo Barberá(5), Duncan J. Watts(4), Benjamin Lyons(4), Sandra González‐Bailón(4), Hunt Allcott(4), Taylor Brown(4), Adriana Crespo-Tenorio(4), Deen Freelon(4), Matthew Gentzkow(4), Young Mie Kim(4), Neil Malhotra(4), Devra Moehler(4), Jennifer Pan(4), Carlos Velasco Rivera(4)