Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Marijn Keijzer, Lukas Erhard, Zarine Kharazian, and Manika Lamba, “The Anatomy of Rabbit Holes: Studying Information Segregation in YouTube’s Recommendation Graph”, February 2026.

Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen, and Suresh Naidu, “Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice”, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 141, n. 1, February 2026, revised June 10, 2026, p. 845–887.

Victor Gay, Paula Gobbi, and Marc Goni, “Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline”, Journal of Political Economy, 2026, forthcoming.

Michael Albertus, and Victor Gay, “State-Building and Rebellion in the Run-Up to the French Revolution”, American Political Science Review, 2026, forthcoming.

Violeta I. Haas, Konstantin Bogatyrev, Tarik Abou-Chadi, Heike Klüver, and Lukas F. Stoetzer, “The Electoral Effects of State-Sponsored Anti-LGBTQ Measures”, The Journal of Politics, 2026, forthcoming.

Daniel L. Chen, Jiafeng Chen, and Gregory Lewis, “Mostly Harmless Machine Learning: Learning Optimal Instruments in Linear IV Models”, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2026, forthcoming.

Mengchen Dong, Jane Conway, Jean-François Bonnefon, Azim Shariff, and Iyad Rahwan, “Fears about Artificial Intelligence across 20 countries and six domains of application”, American Psychologist, vol. 81, n. 1, January 2026, pp. 53–67.

Eva-Madeleine Schmidt, Clara Bersch, Nils Köbis, Jean-François Bonnefon, Iyad Rahwan, and Mengchen Dong, “First interactions with generative chatbots shape local but not global sentiments about AI”, Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, vol. 6, n. 100223, December 2025.

Catherine Molho, and Linh Vu, “Reluctant altruism: Underlying mechanisms and global variations”, Current Opinion in Psychology, vol. 66, n. 102107, December 2025.

Abigail E. Colby, Dominik C. Jud, Valerie Baettig, Jordan S. Martin, Camila Scaff, Michael Gurven, Benjamin C. Trumble, Bret A. Beheim, Paul L. Hooper, Daniel Cummings, Hillard Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz, Arnulfo Cary Ista, and Adrian Jaeggi, “Oxytocin varies across the life course in a sex-specific way in a human subsistence population”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 122, n. 51 (e2509977122), December 2025.