Brendan Nyhan

Education and Career

Brendan Nyhan acquired his B.A. with High Honors in Political Science from Swarthmore College in 2000. He completed his Master of Arts (2005) and Ph.D. (2009) in Political Science at Duke University and co-edited Spinsanity, a non-partisan watchdog of political spin.

He also co-authored the non-fiction political book “All the President’s Spin: George W. Bush, the Media and the Truth in 2004.” He has also written for political and news publications such as American Prospect, Time, and others and has contributed to The New York Times blog The Upshot.

In 2011, Nyhan joined the Dartmouth College faculty as an assistant government professor. In 2018, Brendan started working at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan as a Professor of Public Policy.

In 2019, Nyhan returned to Dartmouth College as James O. Freedman’s Presidential Professor.

Grants and Awards

Honors and Awards

• 2022 — Guggenheim Fellow (Guggenheim Foundation)
• 2019 — Belfer Fellow (Anti-Defamation League)
• 2018 — Andrew Carnegie Fellow (Carnegie Corporation of New York)
• 2017 — Emerging Scholar Award for the top scholar in the field who is within 10 years of Ph.D. (APSA Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section)
• 2017 — Paul Lazarsfeld Award for the best political communication paper at the previous year’s annual meeting (APSA Political Communication section; with Jason Reifler)
• 2016 — Melville and Leila Straus 1960 Faculty Fellowship (Dartmouth College)
• 2016 — Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement (Dartmouth College)
• 2015 — Political Ties Award for best published article (APSA Political Networks section)
• 2014 — Junior Faculty Fellowship (Dartmouth College)
• 2011, 2014 —Walter and Constance Burke Junior Faculty Research Grant (Dartmouth College)
• 2008–2009 — Bass Advanced Instructorship in the Arts & Sciences (Duke University)
• 2007 — Summer Research Fellowship (Duke University)
• 2006–2007 —Fellow, Program for Advanced Research in Social Science (Duke University)
• 2005–2009 —Fellow, Public Institutions and Political Choice Program (Duke University)
• 2003–2007 — James B. Duke Fellowship (Duke University)

Grants

• 2022 — Guggenheim Foundation ($75,000) “Stopping the spread of online misinformation”
• 2022–2023 — Wright Center for the Study of Computation and Just Communities, Dartmouth College (with Jason Lyall, $20,000) “A Multiplatform Evaluation of Online Counter-Radicalization Messages in Bangladesh”
• 2021–2023 — Democracy Fund (with John Carey, Gretchen Helmke, and Susan Stokes, $150,000) Bright Line Watch general support
• 2021–2023 — Hewlett Foundation (with John Carey, Gretchen Helmke, and Susan Stokes, $150,000) Bright Line Watch general support
• 2020 — National Science Foundation (with J. Carey, B. Fogarty, A. Guess, and J. Reifler, $180,448) “RAPID: COVID-19 and Perceptions of Electoral Integrity”
• 2020 National Science Foundation (with John Carey, Andy Guess, and Jason Reifler, $199,027) “RAPID: COVID-19 Information Exposure and Messaging Effects”
• 2019–2021 — National Science Foundation (with GL Ciampaglia, A Flammini, F Menczer; $150,000) “Advances in Socio-Algorithmic Information Diversity”
• 2019–2020 — Russell Sage Foundation (with A Guess, J Reifler, R Robertson, C Wilson; $172,057) “Assessing Algorithmic and Human Selective Exposure to Political Information”
• 2019–2020 — Anti-Defamation League (with A Guess, J Reifler, R Robertson, and C Wilson; $50,000) “Exposure to Hateful and Conspiratorial Content on YouTube”
• 2019 — Facebook Integrity Foundational Research Award (with Lerner, Reifler, Sircar; $100,000) Evaluating the Effectiveness of WhatsApp Fact-Checking in India”
• 2018, 2020–2022 — Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning ($14,000) GOVT 83: Experiments in Politics
• 2018–2019 — Carnegie Corporation of New York ($200,000) “Increasing media trust and countering misinformation in the era of ‘fake news’ ”
• 2018–2020 — Democracy Fund (with John Carey, Gretchen Helmke, and Susan Stokes; $90,000) Bright Line Watch general support
• 2018 — Democracy Fund (with A. Guess, B. Lyons, J. Montgomery, and J. Reifler; $82,070) Support to YouGov for midterm election research on Facebook ads and fake news
• 2017–2020 — Hewlett Foundation (with John Carey, Gretchen Helmke, and Susan Stokes, $167,721) Bright Line Watch general support
• 2017–2019 — The Newmark Philanthropies (with Andrew Guess and Jason Reifler, $82,500) Support for the 2017, 2018, and 2019 Poynter Media Trust Surveys
• 2017–2019 — National Academy of Sciences (with DJ Flynn, B. Ahrens, C. Finley, S. Levine, $37,500) “Evaluating New Approaches to Promoting Vaccination”
• 2017–2018 — Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College (with Andrew Guess & Jason Reifler, $14,800) “Governing in the era of ‘fake news’ ”
• 2017–2018 — Democracy Fund (with John Carey, Gretchen Helmke, and Susan Stokes, $90,000) Bright Line Watch general support
• 2017 — Kempf Memorial Fund (with John Carey, Gretchen Helmke, and Susan Stokes, $15,000) Support for Bright Line Watch conference at Yale University
• 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 — Dartmouth College Undergraduate Advising and Research ($17,500) GOVT 83: Experiments in Politics
• 2016 — National Science Foundation (with J. Carey, V. Chi, D.J. Flynn, and T. Zeitzoff, $56,732) “RAPID: The Prevalence and Causes of Conspiracy Beliefs about Disease Outbreaks”
• 2016 — Dickey Center (with John Carey, Victoria Chi, D.J. Flynn, and Thomas Zeitzoff, $3,500) “The Prevalence and Causes of Conspiracy Belief about Disease Outbreaks”
• 2016 — John and Laura Arnold Foundation (co-PI with Arthur Lupia, $155,020) Election Research Preacceptance Competition grant to the Center for Political Studies
• 2015–2016 — Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College (with Thomas Zeitzoff, $14,800) “The Causes and Consequences of Historical Misperceptions in Intergroup Conflict”
• 2014–2015 — John Sloan Dickey Center at Dartmouth College (with Thomas Zeitzoff, $3,500) “Lack of Control and Historical Misperceptions”
• 2014–2015 — Democracy Fund/American Press Institute (with Jason Reifler, $193,000) Research to improve political factchecking
• 2013–2014 — Center on the American Governor ($4,500) “Governors and the Politics of Scandal”
• 2012–2013 — Democracy Fund/New America Foundation (with Jason Reifler, $82,600) “Countering Misinformation and Strengthening Online Discourse”
• 2012–2013 — Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College (with Marit Rehavi, $7,360) “Political Influence on Public Corruption Prosecutions”
• 2012 — Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (with Jason Reifler, survey time) “Race and the Obama Muslim Myth”
• 2011 — University of Michigan RWJ Scholars Programs (with Reifler, Richey, and Freed, $23,000) “Information processing about the MMR vaccine”
• 2008 — Duke Undergraduate Research Support ($1,000) PS 199AS: Experimental analysis of the 2008 election
• 2008 — Duke Interdisciplinary Initiative in Social Psychology $500) PS 199AS: Experimental analysis of the 2008 election
• 2007 — Dirksen Congressional Center (with Michael Tofias, $3,465) “Parties and Leaders in the Congressional Network”
• 2005 — Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (survey time) “An Experimental Test of Verification Threats in Political Debate”

Research

Nyhan’s research has focused on scandals, misinformation, persuasion, social networks, and statistical methodology. He has co-authored studies on the subject of fake news, including “Selective Exposure to Misinformation: Evidence from the consumption of fake news during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.” He was interviewed by NBC News, where he stated that people received more misinformation from Donald Trump than from fake news websites. Brendan also notes that fake news websites further weaken the norm against false and misleading information in our politics, but it is important to put the content provided by fake news websites in perspective.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Nyhan, Brendan, John M. Carey, Joseph B. Phillips, and Jason Reifler. “Partisanship Unmasked? The Role of Politics and Social Norms in COVID-19 Mask-Wearing Behavior.” Journal of Experimental Political Science (forthcoming).
• Nyhan, Brendan, Alexander Agadjanian, and the students in his 2018 Experiments in Politics seminar at Dartmouth. “Don’t Believe Everything You Read Online? Social Media Platform and Spillover Effects on News Credibility and Engagement.” Journal of Information Technology & Politics (forthcoming).
• Nyhan, Brendan, Nicolas Berlinski, Margaret Doyle, Andrew M. Guess, Gabrielle Levy, Benjamin Lyons, Jacob M. Montgomery, and Jason Reifler. “The Effects of Unsubstantiated Claims of Voter Fraud on Confidence in Elections.” Journal of Experimental Political Science (forthcoming).
• Nyhan, Brendan, John Carey, Gretchen Helmke, Mitchell Sanders, Susan Stokes, and Shun Yamaya. “The Effect of Electoral Inversions on Democratic Legitimacy: Evidence from the United States.” British Journal of Political Science 52, no. 4 (2022): 1891-1901.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Shana Kushner Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, Jamila Michener, and Thomas B. Pepinsky. “Information from Same-Race Experts Online Does Not Increase Vaccine Interest or Intention to Vaccinate.” Milbank Quarterly 100, no. 2 (2022): 492-503.
• Nyhan, Brendan, John Carey, Andrew Guess, Jason Reifler, and Victor Wu. “Legislator Criticism of a Candidate’s Conspiracy Beliefs Reduces Support for the Conspiracy but Not the Candidate: Evidence from Marjorie Taylor Greene and QAnon.” Misinformation Review 3, no. 5 (2022).
• Nyhan, Brendan, Benjamin A. Lyons, Christina E. Farhart, Michael P. Hall, John Kotcher, Matthew Levendusky, Joanne M. Miller, Kaitlin T. Raimi, Jason Reifler, Kyle L. Saunders, Rasmus Skytte, and Xiaoquan Zhao. “Self-Affirmation and Identity-Driven Political Behavior: An Oversold Solution?” Journal of Experimental Political Science 9 (2022): 225-240.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Ethan Porter, and Thomas J. Wood. “Time and Skeptical Opinion Content Erode the Effects of Science Coverage on Climate Beliefs and Attitudes.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, no. 26 (2022): e2122069119.
• Nyhan, Brendan, John M. Carey, Andrew M. Guess, Peter John Loewen, Eric Merkley, Joseph B. Phillips, and Jason Reifler. “The Ephemeral Effects of Fact-checks on COVID-19 Misperceptions: Evidence from the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.” Nature Human Behaviour 6 (2022): 236-243.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Saumya Bhadani, Shun Yamaya, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, and Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia. “Political Audience Diversity and News Reliability in Algorithmic Ranking.” Nature Human Behaviour 6 (2022): 495-505.
• Nyhan, Brendan, John M. Carey, Tracy Keirns, Peter John Loewen, Eric Merkley, Joseph B. Phillips, Judy R. Rees, and Jason Reifler. “Minimal Effects From Injunctive Norm and Contentiousness Treatments on COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions: Evidence From Three Countries.” PNAS Nexus (2022).
• Nyhan, Brendan, John Carey, Katherine Clayton, Gretchen Helmke, Mitchell Sanders, and Susan Stokes. “Who Will Defend Democracy? Evaluating Tradeoffs in Candidate Support Among Partisan Donors and Voters.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties 32, no. 1 (2022): 230-245.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Matt Grossmann, Kayla Hamann, Jennifer Lee, Gabrielle Levy, and Victor Wu. “Republicans are More Optimistic about Economic Mobility, But No Less Accurate.” Research & Politics, vol. 8, no. 2, 2021.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Jin Woo Kim, Andrew M. Guess, and Jason Reifler. “The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity.” Journal of Communication, vol. 71, no. 6, 2021, pp. 922-946.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Katherine Clayton, Christine Finley, D.J. Flynn, and Meredith Graves. “Evaluating the Effects of Vaccine Messaging on Immunization Intentions and Behavior: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials in Vermont.” Vaccine, vol. 39, no. 40, 2021, pp. 5909-5917.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Nathan Lee, Jason Reifler, and D.J. Flynn. “More Accurate, But No Less Polarized: Comparing the Factual Beliefs of Government Officials and the Public.” British Journal of Political Science, vol. 51, no. 3, 2021, pp. 1315-1322.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Katherine Clayton, Nicholas T. Davis, Ethan Porter, Timothy J. Ryan, and Thomas J. Wood. “Elite Rhetoric Can Undermine Democratic Norms.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, no. 23, 2021, pp. e2024125118.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Benjamin Lyons, Andrew Guess, Jacob M. Montgomery, and Jason Reifler. “Overconfidence in News Judgments Is Associated With False News Susceptibility.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, no. 23, 2021, pp. e2019527118.
• Nyhan, Brendan, and students in his 2020 Experiments in Politics seminar at Dartmouth. “The Limited Effects of Partisan and Consensus Messaging in Correcting Science Misperceptions.” Research & Politics, vol. 8, no. 2, 2021.
• Nyhan, Brendan. “Why ‘Backfire Effects’ Do Not Explain the Durability of Political Misperceptions.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, no. 15, 2021, pp. e1912440117.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Andrew M. Guess, Zachary O’Keeffe, and Jason Reifler. “The Sources and Correlates of Exposure to Vaccine-related (Mis)information Online.” Vaccine 38.49 (2020): 7799-7805.
• Nyhan, Brendan, et al. “Real Solutions for Fake News? Measuring the Effectiveness of General Warnings and Fact-Check Banners in Reducing Belief in False Stories on Social Media.” Political Behavior 42.4 (2020): 1073-1095.
• Nyhan, Brendan, et al. “Political Sectarianism in America.” Science 370.6516 (2020): 533-536.
• Nyhan, Brendan, et al. “A Digital Media Literacy Intervention Increases Discernment Between Mainstream and False News in the United States and India.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.27 (2020): 15536-15545.
• Nyhan, Brendan, et al. “Taking Fact-Checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-Checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability.” Political Behavior 42 (2020): 939-960.
• Nyhan, Brendan. “Facts and Myths About Misperceptions.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 34.3 (2020): 220-236.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Andrew Guess, and Jason Reifler. “Exposure to Untrustworthy Websites in the 2016 U.S. Election.” Nature Human Behaviour 4 (2020): 472-480.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Jin Woo Kim, and Evan Morgan. “Treatment Versus Punishment: Understanding Racial Inequalities in Drug Policy.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 45.2 (2020): 177-209.
• Nyhan, Brendan, et al. “The Effects of Corrective Information about Epidemics: Evidence from Zika and Yellow Fever in Brazil.” Science Advances 6.5 (2020).
• Nyhan, Brendan, et al. “”Fake News” May Have Limited Effects Beyond Increasing Beliefs in False Claims.” Misinformation Review 1.1 (2020).
• Nyhan, Brendan, et al. “A Consensus-Based Transparency Checklist.” Nature Human Behaviour 4 (2020): 4-6.
• Nyhan, Brendan, John M. Carey, Gretchen Helmke, Mitchell Sanders, and Susan C. Stokes. “Searching for Bright Lines in the Trump Presidency.” Perspectives on Politics, vol. 17, no. 3, 2019, pp. 699-718.
• Nyhan, Brendan, et al. “Counting the Pinocchios: The Effect of Summary Fact-Checking Data on Perceived Accuracy and Favorability of Politicians.” Research & Politics, vol. 6, no. 3, 2019, pp. 1-10.
• Nyhan, Brendan, and Jason Reifler. “The Role of Information Deficits and Identity Threat in the Prevalence of Misperceptions.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, vol. 29, no. 2, 2019, pp. 222-244.
• Nyhan, Brendan, and Thomas Zeitzoff. “Conspiracy and Misperception Belief in the Middle East and North Africa.” Journal of Politics, vol. 80, no. 4, 2018, pp. 1400-1404.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Jacob Montgomery, and Michelle Torres. “How Conditioning on Posttreatment Variables Can Ruin Your Experiment and What to Do About It.” American Journal of Political Science, vol. 62, no. 3, 2018, pp. 760-775.
• Nyhan, Brendan, and Thomas Zeitzoff. “Fighting the Past: Perceptions of Control, Historical Misperceptions, and Corrective Information in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” Political Psychology, vol. 39, no. 3, 2018, pp. 611-631.
• Nyhan, Brendan, et al. “The Science of Fake News.” Science, vol. 359, no. 6380, 2018, pp. 1094-1096.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Ryden Butler, Jacob Montgomery, and Michelle Torres. “Revisiting White Backlash: Does Race Affect Death Penalty Opinion?” Research & Politics, vol. 5, no. 2, 2018.
• Nyhan, Brendan, et al. “Redefine Statistical Significance.” Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 2, no. 1, 2018, pp. 6-10.
• Nyhan, Brendan, A. Demetri Pananos, Thomas M. Bury, Clara Wang, Justin Schonfeld, Sharada P. Mohanty, Marcel Salathé, and Chris T. Bauch. “Critical Dynamics in Population Vaccinating Behavior.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114.52 (2017): 13762-13767.
• Nyhan, Brendan, and Jacob Montgomery. “The Effects of Congressional Staff Networks in the U.S. House of Representatives.” Journal of Politics 79.3 (2017): 745-761.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Chris Skovron, and Rocío Titiunik. “Differential Registration Bias in Voter File Data: A Sensitivity Analysis Approach.” American Journal of Political Science 61.3 (2017): 744-760.
• Nyhan, Brendan, D.J. Flynn, and Jason Reifler. “The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs about Politics.” Advances in Political Psychology 38.S1 (2017): 127-150.
• Nyhan, Brendan, and the students in his 2014 Experiments in Politics seminar at Dartmouth. “Classified or Coverup? The Effect of Redactions on Conspiracy Theory Beliefs.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 3 (2016): 109–123.
• Nyhan, Brendan, John Carey, Benjamin Valentino, and Mingnan Liu. “An Inflated View of the Facts? How Preferences and Predispositions Shape Conspiracy Beliefs about the Deflategate Scandal.” Research & Politics (2016).
• Nyhan, Brendan, Morgan Hazelton, and Jacob Montgomery. “Does Public Financing Affect Judicial Behavior? Evidence From the North Carolina Supreme Court.” American Politics Research 44.4 (2016): 587-617.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Lucas Graves, and Jason Reifler. “Understanding Innovations in Journalistic Practice: A Field Experiment Examining Motivations for Fact-Checking.” Journal of Communication 66.1 (2016): 102-138.
• Nyhan, Brendan, and Jason Reifler. “Displacing Misinformation about Events: An Experimental Test of Causal Corrections.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 2.1 (2015): 81-93.
• Nyhan, Brendan, and Jason Reifler. “The Effect of Fact-checking on Elites: A Field Experiment on U.S. State Legislators.” American Journal of Political Science 59.3 (2015): 628-640.
• Nyhan, Brendan, and Jacob Montgomery. “Connecting the Candidates: Consultant Networks and the Diffusion of Campaign Strategy in American Congressional Elections.” American Journal of Political Science 59.2 (2015): 292-308.
• Nyhan, Brendan. “Scandal Potential: How Political Context and News Congestion Affect the President’s Vulnerability to Media Scandal.” British Journal of Political Science 45.2 (2015): 435-466.
• Nyhan, Brendan, and Jason Reifler. “Does Correcting Myths about the Flu Vaccine Work? An Experimental Evaluation of the Effects of Corrective Information.” Vaccine 33.3 (2015): 459-464.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Jason Reifler, Sean Richey, and Gary Freed. “Effective Messages in Vaccine Promotion: A Randomized Trial (pre-publication version).” Pediatrics 133, no. 4 (2014): e835-e842.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Michael Cobb, and Jason Reifler. “Beliefs Don’t Always Persevere: How Political Figures Are Punished When Positive Information about Them Is Discredited (pre-publication version).” Political Psychology 34, no. 3 (2013): 307-326.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Jason Reifler, and Peter Ubel. “The Hazards of Correcting Myths about Health Care Reform (pre-publication version).” Medical Care 51, no. 2 (2013): 127-132.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Jason Reifler, and Sean Richey. “The Role of Social Networks in Influenza Vaccine Attitudes and Intentions Among College Students in the Southeastern United States (pre-publication version).” Journal of Adolescent Health 51, no. 3 (2012): 302-304.
• Nyhan, Brendan, Eric McGhee, John Sides, Seth Masket, and Steven Greene. “One Vote Out of Step? The Effects of Salient Roll Call Votes in the 2010 Election (pre-publication version).” American Politics Research 40, no. 5 (2012): 844-879.
• Nyhan, Brendan. “The Limited Effects of Testimony on Political Persuasion (pre-publication version).” Public Choice 148, no. 3-4 (2011): 283-312.
• Nyhan, Brendan, and Hans Noel. “The ‘Unfriending’ Problem: The Consequences of Homophily in Friendship Retention for Causal Estimates of Social Influence (pre-publication version).” Social Networks 33, no. 3 (2011): 211-218.
• Nyhan, Brendan, and Jason Reifler. “When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions (pre-publication version).” Political Behavior 32, no. 2 (2010): 303-330.
• Nyhan, Brendan, and Jacob Montgomery. “Bayesian Model Averaging: Theoretical Developments and Practical Applications (pre-publication version).” Political Analysis 18, no. 2 (2010): 245-270.

Other Publications

• Nyhan, Brendan et al. “Overcoming Barriers to Vaccination by Empowering Citizens to Make Deliberate Choices.” The British Academy, 2022.
• Nyhan, Brendan et al. “Exposure to Alternative & Extremist Content on YouTube.” Anti-Defamation League, 2021.
• Nyhan, Brendan et al. “Fair Elections During a Crisis: Urgent Recommendations in Law, Media, Politics, and Tech to Advance the Legitimacy of, and the Public’s Confidence in, the November 2020 U.S. Elections.” UCI Law, 2020.
• Nyhan, Brendan et al. “National News, Local Lens? Findings from the 2019 Poynter Media Trust Survey.” The Poynter Institute, 2019.
• Nyhan, Brendan. “Why Fears of Fake News Are Overhyped.” Medium, 2019.
• Nyhan, Brendan et al. “Fake news, Facebook ads, and misperceptions: Assessing information quality in the 2018 U.S. midterm election campaign. Public report.” 2018.
• Nyhan, Brendan et al. “All Media Trust Is Local? Findings from the 2018 Poynter Media Trust Survey.” The Poynter Institute, 2018.
• Nyhan, Brendan et al. “Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation: A Review of the Scientific Literature.” Hewlett Foundation, 2018.
• Nyhan, Brendan et al. “Avoiding the Echo Chamber About Echo Chambers: Why Selective Exposure To Like-Minded Political News Is Less Prevalent Than You Think.” The Knight Foundation, 2018.
• Nyhan, Brendan et al. “You’re Fake News!” The 2017 Poynter Media Trust Survey.” The Poynter Institute, 2017.
• Nyhan, Brendan. “A Checklist Manifesto for Peer Review.” The Political Methodologist 23(1): 4-6, 2016.
• Nyhan, Brendan. “Increasing the Credibility of Political Science Research: A Proposal for Journal Reforms (pre-publication version).” PS: Political Science & Politics 48.S1 (2015): 78-83.
• Nyhan, Brendan, John Sides, and Joshua A. Tucker. “APSA as Amplifier: How to Encourage and Promote Public Voices within Political Science (pre-publication version).” PS: Political Science & Politics 48.S1 (2015): 90-93.
• Nyhan, Brendan, and Jason Reifler. “Estimating Fact-checking’s Effects: Evidence from a long-term experiment during campaign 2014.” American Press Institute (2015).
• Nyhan, Brendan, Lucas Graves, and Jason Reifler. “The Diffusion of Fact-checking: Understanding the growth of a journalistic innovation.” American Press Institute (2015).
• Nyhan, Brendan, and Jason Reifler. “Which Corrections Work? Research Results and Practice Recommendations.” New America Foundation Media Policy Initiative Research Paper (2013).
• Nyhan, Brendan, and Jason Reifler. “The Effects of Fact-checking Threat: Results From a Field Experiment in the States.” New America Foundation Media Policy Initiative Research Paper (2013).
• Nyhan, Brendan. “Does the US Media Have a Liberal Bias? A Discussion of Tim Groseclose’s Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind (local copy).” Perspectives on Politics 10.3 (2012): 767-771.
• Nyhan, Brendan, and Jason Reifler. “Misinformation and Fact-checking: Research Findings from Social Science.” New America Foundation Media Policy Initiative Research Paper (2012).
• Nyhan, Brendan, and John Sides. “How Political Science Can Help Journalism (and Still Let Journalists Be Journalists) (local copy).” The Forum 9.1 (2011).
• Nyhan, Brendan. “Why the ‘Death Panel’ Myth Wouldn’t Die: Misinformation in the Health Care Reform Debate (local copy).” The Forum 8.1 (2010).
• Nyhan, Brendan, et al. Party and Constituency in the U.S. Senate, 1933-2004. Why Not Parties? edited by Nathan W. Monroe, et al., University of Chicago Press, 2008.
• Nyhan, Brendan, et al. All the President’s Spin: George W. Bush, the Media and the Truth. Touchstone, 2004.