Betsy Levy Paluck

Betsy Levy Paluck
Education	Yale University (BS) Yale University (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Social norms, networks and influence Media effects Prejudice and conflict resolution Gender Methodology
Institutions	Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Policy, Princeton University
Website	www.betsylevypaluck.com

Elizabeth (Betsy) Levy Paluck is a professor in the department of psychology and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where she also serves as deputy director of the Center for Behavioral Science & Policy. She is known for her work on prejudice, social norms and conflict reduction. She is best known for creating large-scale field experiments utilizing theoretical social psychology strategies and tools to formulate effective and practical methods for reducing conflict and discrimination. Due to her extensive work investigating the influences of the Rwandan genocide and her work with high school bullying,[1][2] Paluck is considered a leading authority on field-tested methods of changing intolerant and aggressive social behavior.[3]

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."[4]

Paluck has published over 50 academic papers[5] and has been profiled, quoted and interviewed in the New Yorker,[6] Slate,[7] NPR,[8] the Cut and various Psychology magazines.[9][10][11]

Advisory positions and distinctions

• Ideas 42, Senior Researcher, Advisory Board[12]
• Princeton University Old Dominion Faculty Fellow
• Princeton University Experiments in Governance and Politics, Executive Committee (EGAP)[13]
• Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity
• Affiliate, Crime Lab New York, Urban Labs, University of Chicago[14]

Select awards

• 2017 MacArthur Award Winner, "Genius Grant"[15]
• 2013 The Sage Young Scholars Award from the Society of Personal and Social Psychology[16]
• 2010 Cialdini Prize for Field Research[17]

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.

References

1. Paluck, Elizabeth Levy (2009). "Reducing intergroup prejudice and conflict using the media: A field experiment in Rwanda". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 96 (3): 574–587. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.315.5706. doi:10.1037/a0011989. ISSN 1939-1315. PMID 19254104.
2. Paluck, Elizabeth Levy; Shepherd, Hana (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. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.303.3551. doi:10.1037/a0030015. ISSN 1939-1315. PMID 22984831.
3. "University of Chicago, Urban Labs".
4. "MacArthur Fellows Program: Betsy Levy Paluck". MacArthur Foundation. 2017.
5. "Google Scholar".
6. Konnikova, Maria (October 11, 2017). "How Norms Change". The New Yorker.
7. Pesca, Mike (Jan 9, 2018). "Radio Reconciliation Rwanda's radio programming fueled the country's infamous genocide in 1994". Slate.
8. Singh, Maavi (Oct 11, 2017). "'Genius Grant' Winner Used A Soap Opera To Prove A Point About Prejudice". NPR.
9. "One potential solution to bullying—social psychology". Phys.org. September 2, 2016.
10. Brown, Robin Terry (December 2017). "4 questions for Betsy Levy Paluck". American Psychological Association.
11. Nesterak, Evan (October 12, 2017). "Betsy Levy Paluck Named 2017 MacArthur Fellow". Behavioral Science magazine.
12. "ideas 42: Advisors". Ideas 42.
13. "EGAP Members". Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP).
14. "Crime Lab: New York". University of Chicago.
15. "2017 MacArthur Fellows". MacArthur Foundation.
16. "SAGE Scholar Award". Society of Personality and Social Psychology.
17. "Cialdini Prize for a Single Outstanding Contribution". Society for Personal and Social Psychology.

External links

• Official website
• Psychologist Betsy Levy Paluck | 2017 MacArthur Fellow
• Arguing the right way | Robert Wright & Betsy Levy Paluck (The Wright Show)
• Slate: Radio Reconciliation
• The CUT: Why Doesn’t Spending Time With Women Make Men Less Sexist?
• The CUT: Want to End Bullying? Get the Popular Students to Help