Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University specializing in tailored experiments, public opinion research, and political psychology.
I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, specializing in political psychology with a focus on attitude and belief change. My research examines how the quality of political information influences political engagement and representation, paying particular attention to the impact of misinformation within immigrant communities.
My most recent work examines the potential for generative artificial intelligence to improve our understanding of public opinion, leveraging the construction of tailored surveys that adaptively respond to voters. My work has been published in journals such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, and Political Analysis.
A critical assessment of attitude polarization using tailored experiments.
Download PaperExploring the impact of deeply-held issues among Latinos using personalized conjoint experiments.
Optimizing survey questions in real-time based on participant feedback using multi-arm bandits.
Developing dynamic measures of responsiveness through retrieval augmented generation.
Using language models to generate placebo text for survey experiments, reducing researcher degrees of freedom in experimental design.
A web application for generating tailored experimental designs in Qualtrics.
Generate Tailored ExperimentA tutorial on how to use AI to ask follow-up questions in Qualtrics.
See TutorialHave questions or want to collaborate? Reach out to me at:
yrv2004@columbia.edu