Betsy Levy Paluck
American psychology professor
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In 2017, Paluck won the MacArthur Fellow Award, known as the "Genius Grant" for "[u]nraveling how social networks and norms influence our interactions with one another and identifying interventions that can change destructive behavior."
Paluck has published over 50 academic papers and has been profiled, quoted and interviewed in the New Yorker, Slate, NPR, the Cut and various Psychology magazines.
Advisory positions and distinctions
- Ideas 42, Senior Researcher, Advisory Board
- Princeton University Old Dominion Faculty Fellow
- Princeton University Experiments in Governance and Politics, Executive Committee (EGAP)
- Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity
- Affiliate, Crime Lab New York, Urban Labs, University of Chicago
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- 2024 American Academy of Political and Social Science Award
- 2017 MacArthur Award Winner, "Genius Grant"
- 2013 The Sage Young Scholars Award from the Society of Personal and Social Psychology
- 2010 Cialdini Prize for Field Research
Selected articles
- Paluck, E. L. (2006). Diversity training and intergroup contact: A call to action research. Journal of Social Issues, 62(3), 577–595.
- Paluck, E. L. (2009). Reducing intergroup prejudice and conflict using the media: a field experiment in Rwanda. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(3), 574–587.
- Paluck, E. L., & Green, D. P. (2009). Deference, dissent, and dispute resolution: An experimental intervention using mass media to change norms and behavior in Rwanda. American Political Science Review, 103(4), 622–644.
- Paluck, E. L., & Green, D. P. (2009). Prejudice reduction: What works? A review and assessment of research and practice. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 339–367.
- Paluck, E. L., & Shepherd, H. (2012). The salience of social referents: A field experiment on collective norms and harassment behavior in a school social network. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103(6), 899–915.
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