Research

"Moral Permissibility and Desert in the Therapy-Enhancement Distinction" (2025) by Ozan Gurcan, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.

"Policy Recommendations for the Regulation of Engineered Microbes for Environmental Release" (2024) by John Marken, Mary Maxon, and Richard Murray, Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy, Caltech.

"Moral Equality and Reprogenetic Autonomy in the Genomic Era" (2024) by Ozan Gurcan, Politics and the Life Sciences, FirstView.

"Public Communication about Science in 68 Countries: Global Evidence on How People Encounter and Engage with Information about Science" (2025) by Niels G. Mede et al., Science Communication.

"Why Publishing Referee Reports Could Backfire on Public Trust" (2025) by Ramit Debnath, R. Michael Alvarez, and Danny Ebanks, Nature.

"Measuring the Quality of Answers in Political Q&As with Large Language Models" (2025) by R. Michael Alvarez and Jacob Morrier, Political Analysis.

"Do Polarized Issues Carry More Weight in Voter Decision-Making? Insights From the 2022 Congressional Midterm Elections" (2025) by R. Michael Alvarez and Jacob Morrier, American Politics Research.

"Detecting and Measuring Social Media Attacks on American Election Officials" (2025) by Sreemanti Dey, Daniel Ebanks, Sarah Hashash, and R. Michael Alvarez, Frontiers in Political Science.

"American Views About Election Fraud in 2024" (2024) by Mitchell Linegar and R. Michael Alvarez, Frontiers in Political Science.

"Prebunking Elections Rumors: Artificial Intelligence Assisted Interventions Increase Confidence in American Elections" (2024) by Mitchell Linegar, Betsy Sinclair, Sander van der Linden, and R. Michael Alvarez, arXiv.

"Electoral Innovation and the Alaska System: Partisanship and Populism are Associated with Support for Top-4/Ranked-Choice Voting Rules" (2024) by J. Andrew Sinclair, R. Michael Alvarez, Betsy Sinclair, and Christian R. Grose, Political Research Quarterly.

"Inequitable Efficiency: Unravelling the Social and Built Environment Drivers of London's Housing Energy Performance" (2026) by Cuicheng Zhang, Cong Cao, Pengyu Zhang, R. Michael Alvarez, and Ramit Debnath.

"Extreme Weather Event Attribution Predicts Climate Policy Support Across the World" (2025) by V. Cologna, S. Meiler, C.M. Kropf et al., Nature Climate Change.

"Interaction between Climate Factors and Air Quality in Three Norwegian Cities: A Machine Learning Analysis" (2025) by Cong Cao, Ramit Debnath, and R. Michael Alvarez, Atmospheric Environment: X.

"Measuring the Interaction of Sociodemographic and Building Characteristics on Energy Efficiency and Environmental Impact in London Using Machine Learning" (2025) by Cuicheng Zhang, Cong Cao, Pengyu Zhang, R. Michael Alvarez, and Ramit Debnath, SSRN, preprint article.

"Physics-Based Machine Learning for Predicting Urban Air Pollution Using Decadal Time Series Data" (2025) by Cong Cao, Ramit Debnath, and R. Michael Alvarez, Environmental Research Communications.

"Using Support Vector Machine and Decision Tree to Predict Mortality Related to Traffic, Air Pollution, and Meteorological Exposure in Norway" (2025) by Cong Cao, Conference Paper, The Chinese Economists Society Conference 2025.

"Partisanship Overcomes Framing in Shaping Solar Geoengineering Perceptions:  Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment" (2025) by Beatrice Magistro, Ramit Debnath, Paul O. Wennberg, and R. Michael Alvarez, npj Climate Action.

"Appealing to Independents: Information on Negative Externalities Increases Support for Environmental Corrective Taxes" (2024) by Beatrice Magistro and R. Michael Alvarez, Environmental Politics.

"Integration of Ten Years of Daily Weather, Traffic, and Air Pollution Data from Norway's Six Largest Cities" (2024) by Cong Cao, Scientific Data.

"Rich Data Variables: Integration of Ten Years of Daily Weather, Traffic, and Air Pollution Data Across Six Largest Norwegian Cities" (2024) by Cong Cao, Science Data Bank.

"Modeling Impacts of Traffic, Air Pollution, and Weather Conditions on Cardiopulmonary Disease Mortality" (2024) by Cong Cao, Jan Morten Dyrstad, and Colin P. Green, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.

"Identifying American Climate Change Free Riders and Motivating Sustainable Behavior" (2024) by Ramit Debnath, Beatrice Magistro, Cecilia Abramson, Danny Ebanks, and R. Michael Alvarez, Scientific Reports.

"Why Don't Americans Trust University Researchers and Why It Matters for Climate Change" (2023) by R. Michael Alvarez, Ramit Debnath, Daniel Ebanks, PLOS Climate.

"Do Fossil Fuel Firms Reframe Online Climate and Sustainability Communication? A Data-Driven Analysis" (2023) by Ramit Debnath, Danny Ebanks, Kamiar Mohaddes, Thomas Roulet, and R. Michael Alvarez, npj Climate Action.

"Causal Beliefs and the Potential for Political Backlash Against AI" (2025) by Sophie Borwein, Beatrice Magistro, R. Michael Alvarez, Bart Bonikowski, and Peter Loewen, forthcoming in Public Opinion Quarterly.

"The Coming AI Backlash: How the Anger Economy Will Supercharge Populism" (2025) by Beatrice Magistro, Sophie Borwein, Bart Bonikowski, and Peter John Loewen, Foreign Affairs.

"Tracing Human-Like Traits in LLMs: Origins, Real-World Manifestation, and Controllability" by Pengrui Han, Rafal Dariusz Kocielnik, Peiyang Song, Ramit Debnath, Dean Mobbs, and Anima Anandkumar. ICML 2025 Workshop MOFA, poster.

"The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs" (2025) by Pengrui Han, Rafal Kocielnik, Peiyang Song, Ramit Debnath, Dean Mobbs, Anima Anandkumar, and R. Michael Alvarez, arXiv.

"The Common Microfoundations of Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Globalization" (2024) by Beatrice Magistro, Sophie Borwein, R. Michael Alvarez, Bart Bonikowski, and Peter J. Loewen, SSRN.

List of policy-relevant publications and presentations by scholars affiliated with LCSSP