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Books

Emotions on our Screens

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

Trend Dominance

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

The road to reelection is paved with good intentions: Experiments on the role of outcomes and intentions in voting behavior

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

Anticipating moral hazard undermines climate change mitigation in an experimental geoengineering game

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

Is a rational politics of disaster possible? Making useful decisions for others in an experimental disaster game

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

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