Books
With Yanna Krupnikov & Lauren Olson
Cambridge Elements Series in Political Communication, 2026
Climate Games: Experiments on How People Prevent Disaster
With Andrew W. Delton & Reuben Kline
University of Michigan Press, 2024
Selected Working Projects
Are voters myopic or looking for improvement?
With Markus Prior
Conditionally accepted, American Political Science Review
Climate change adaptation literacy
With Nicholas P. Simpson, Salma Sabour, Fred Emmanuel Sato, Chandni Singh, Daniel L. Sullivan, Albert Ferreira, Joanne Clarke, Stuart Mark Howden, & Christopher H. Trisos
Under Review
Emotions as information in the face of disaster
Draft available on request
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Meaning beyond numbers: Introducing the plot staircase to measure graphical preferences
With Markus Prior & Justin Curl
Political Analysis, 2025
Paying attention & paying the costs: Wildfires in the American West
With Alicia Cooperman, Sara Constantino, & Alexander Gard-Murray
Climactic Change, 2025
With Markus Prior
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2025
Most Africans place primary responsibility for climate action on their own government
With Nicholas Simpson, Matthias Krönke, Andreas Schwarz Meyer, Christopher H. Trisos, and Debra Roberts
Nature: Communications Earth & Environment, 2025
Covered on Radio France International and in Nature Africa and Carbon Brief
The winds of change? Attitudes toward wind projects and their electoral implications in Texas
With Carol Atkinson-Palombo, Oksan Bayulgen, Adam Gallaher, & Lyle Scruggs
Energy Policy, 2025
With Scott Bokemper
The Journal of Politics, 2025
Low perceptions of climate change by farmers and herders on the Tibetan Plateau
With Jiawei Yi, Yuan Tian, Nicholas P. Simpson, Yunyan Du, Ting Ma, Chengqun Yu, Tao Pei, Xinjie Zha, Chenghu Zhou, Wei Sun, Shaowei Li, Zhiming Zhong, Junxi Wu, Jialu An, Fusong Han, Cheng Duan, Huixia Zou, Mengmeng Zhang, Nan Wang, Jiale Qian, Wenna Tu, Sheng Huang, Peixian Luo, Xiaoyue Wang, Dingcheng Hu, & Rui Xu
Global Environmental Change, 2025
The politics of pooling risk: Compassion, self-interest, and healthcare
With Daniella P. Alva & Andrew W. Delton
Political Psychology, 2024
Who punishes? A note on responses to cooperation and defection across cultures
Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2024
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People are less myopic about future than past collective outcomes
With Markus Prior & Abdelaziz Alsharawy
PNAS, 2024
News from home: How local media shapes climate change attitudes
With Cana Kim & Jeong Hyun Kim
Public Opinion Quarterly, 2023
Risks from response to a changing climate
With Nicholas P. Simpson, Katherine Mach, & Christopher Trisos
Climate Risk Management, 2023
Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake
With Nicholas P. Simpson, Portia Adade Williams, Katharine J.Mach, Lea Berrang-Ford, Robbert Biesbroek, Marjolijn Haasnoot, Alcade C. Segnon, Donovan Campbell, Justice Issah Musah-Surugu, Elphin Tom Joe, Abraham Marshall Nunbogu, Salma Sabour, Andreas L. S. Meyer, Chandni Singh, A. R. Siders, Judy Lawrence, Maartenvan Aalst, Christopher H. Trisos, The Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative Team
iScience, 2023
Who do you trust? Institutions that constrain leaders help people prevent disaster
With Andrew W. Delton & Reuben Kline
The Journal of Politics, 2022
Too many ways to help: How to promote climate change mitigation behaviors
With Reuben Kline, Yanna Krupnikov, & John Barry Ryan
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2022
With Andrew W. Delton & Reuben Kline
Ecological Economics, 2022
Climate change literacy in Africa
With Nicholas Philip Simpson, Matthias Kronke, Christopher Lennard, Romaric C. Odoulami, Birgitt Ouweneel, Anna Steynor, & Christopher H. Trisos
Nature Climate Change, 2021
Covered in The Conversation and the Nature Sustainability Community
Preferences for prevention: People assume expensive problems have expensive solutions
With John Barry Ryan
Risk Analysis, 2021
Winner of best paper published in Risk Analysis, 2021
With Andrew W. Delton & Reuben Kline
Political Behavior, 2021
From moral hazard to risk-response feedback
With Joseph Jebari, Olufemi Taiwo, Valentina Aquila, Brian Beckage, Mariia Belaia, Maggie Clifford, Jay Fuhrman, David P. Keller, Katharine J. Mach, David R. Morrow, Kaitlin T. Raimi, Daniele Visioni, Simon Nicholson, & Christopher H. Trisos
Climate Risk Management, 2021
Who feels the impacts of climate change?
With Oleg Smirnov
Global Environmental Change, 2020
Data published in Data in Brief, 2020
Rebel recruitment in civil conflict
With Katherine Sawyer
International Interactions, 2020
When trust matters: The case of gun control
With John Barry Ryan, Tracy Goodwin, & Yanna Krupnikov
Political Behavior, 2020
High risk-high reward investments to mitigate climate change
With Andrew W. Delton & Reuben Kline
Nature Climate Change, 2018
Discussed in Behavioral and Social Sciences at Nature Research blog
Cue-based estimates of reproductive value explain women's body attractiveness
With Aaron W. Lukaszewski, Zachary L. Simmons, & April Bleske-Recheck
Evolution and Human Behavior, 2018