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POST-DOC
PHILIP PARNAMETS - NYU Social Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow
Philip completed his PhD in cognitive science at Lund University and has spent two years as a postdoc with the Emotion Lab at Karolinska Institutet. His research is grounded in a broad interest in the cognitive and computational mechanisms underlying preference change, decision making and learning, especially in the moral domain. In the Social Identity and Morality lab his work focuses on dynamic models of social learning about moral agents and of moral choices generally. Philip spends his spare time creating, listening or dancing to electronic music.
MEDIA & PRESS
The Center for Conflict and Cooperation is a leading global voice on the science of identity, polarization, and collective behavior, with our research frequently featured in major outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and the BBC. From award-winning documentaries like Why We Hate to top-rated programs such as Hidden Brain and Freakonomics, our work reaches millions through through national news broadcasts, podcasts, TED talks, documentaries, Op-eds, and news articles. This collection highlights our center’s ongoing commitment to providing insights into the science of cooperation, conflict, misinformation, and the impact of social media on modern society.
This detox may erase 10 years of social media brain damage, researchers say
-Washington Post
April 2026
How to Collaborate Better
-Harvard Business Review Special Issues
Summer 2026
Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media
-The Guardian
January 2026
AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy
-Wired
January 2026
The Psychology of Misunderstandings Online
-Psychology Today
January 2026
The end of the gatekeepers
-Financial Times
September 2025
Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?
-The Guardian
July 2025
Younger Americans are turning to influencers over doctors for health advice
-CBS Mornings
July 2025
What Experts Really Think About Smartphones and Mental Health
-Plain English with Derek Thompson
June 2025
Is movie theater etiquette the worst it’s ever been?
-TimeOut
March 2025
Does Fact-Checking Work? Here’s What the Science Says
-Scientific American
January 2025
Why are Women Less Likely to Use AI?
-Bloomberg
November 2024
More than Two Dozen NYU Researchers Among the World's Most Cited
-NYU Press Office
November 2024
How a small but vocal minority of social media users distort reality and sow division
-PBS News Weekend
October 2024
How our identities are shaped (with Jay Van Bavel)
-Culture Matters podcast
October 2024
Political polarization poses serious risks to public health
- News Medical: Life Sciences
October 2024
How belonging can bring us together and pull us apart
-The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane
September 2024
How to stop doom scrolling- and have a better experience online (with Jay Van Bavel)
-WorkLife with Adam Grant (TED)
September 2024
Who does behavioral science? Introducing the Missing Majority dashboard
-Busara
August 2024
Are Bans on Student Phones Effective?
-New York Times (Letter to the Editor)
August 2024
The Psychology of Identity and Fostering Social Harmony
-The Psychology Podcast with Barry Kauffman
August 2024
Living Out Loud, Headphones Nowhere to be Found
-New York Times
July 2024
Political Scientists Want to Know Why We Hate One Another This Much
-New York Times
June 2024
Why Losing Political Power Now Feels Like 'Losing Your Country'
-New York Times
May 2024
A Psychologist Explains Four Reasons the Internet Feels So Broken
-Plain English with Derek Thompson
April 2024
Meet the Experts Series - Jay Van Bavel
Mindstuck
April 2024
How Political Partisanship Can Be Deadly
-Psychology Today
Janurary 2024
Why Tribe Divides Us
-Thinking in Bets
October 2023
A Psychologist Reveals What's Really Going On In The Mind Of A Political Extremist
-Forbes
September 2023
The Politics of Delusion Have Taken Hold
-New York Times
September 2023
Moving Beyond Us vs Them
-How God Works: The Science of Spirituality
May 2023
Be the Architect of Your Identity
-Passion Struck Podcast
March 2023
Two Research Teams Submitted the Same Paper to Nature - You Won't BELIEVE What Happens Next!!
-Nature
March 2023
Vaccine hesitancy is associated with interacting with low-quality information online, study finds
-PsyPost
February 2023
How Not to Fail at Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions
-TIME Magazine
January 2023
This leadership approach can help anyone build a shared mission
-Quartz
January 2023
Science communication in psychology
-NeoAcademia
January 2023
Groupthink, Social Identity, and Cult Psychology
-Trust Me podcast
January 2023
Why do people cling to false beliefs?
-Animate Your Science
January 2023
Is TikTok "Digital Fentanyl"?
-Tech Policy Press
December 2022
Experts share how journalists can stay ahead of digital misinformation
-Press Club Institute
December 2022
I'm Your Biggest Fan!
-Freakonomics
November 2022
Wired for Connection: How Our Brains Create Communities
-Aspen Ideas Festival
November 2022
The sibling rivalry that divided a town
-TedEd
November 2022
Group affiliations & political tribalism
-Unbiased Podcast
November 2022
Why the worst recipes imaginable are blowing up on TikTok
-The Verge
November 2022
Psychology and Market Insanity
-Lead-Lag Live podcast
October 2022
How Our Shared Identities Can Propel Us to Greatness - or Self-Destruction
-Intersection podcast
September 2022
How to share information better on social media
-The Atlantic Festival
September 2022
21 Questions with Jay Van Bavel
-SocialNeuro
September 2022
How to foster healthy scientific independence—for yourself and your trainees
-Science Magazine
July 2022
Wired for Connection: How Our Brain Create Communities
-Aspen Ideas
July 2022
Jay Van Bavel: The Power of Us
-Stanford Psychology Podcase
July 2022
-The New York Times
June 2022
-Harvard Medicine
May 2022
-The Atlantic
January 2022
-Los Angeles Times
November 2021
-The Guardian
November 2021
-Science
November 2021
-The Wall Street Journal
October 2021
-New York Magazine
September 2021
-The Washington Post
July 2021
-Los Angeles Times
April 2021
-Los Angeles Times
April 2021
-Science
March 2021
-Science
January 2021
-Scientific American
November 2020
-Nature Research Social and Behavioural Sciences
March 2020
-Washington Post
March 2020
-BBC World News
February 2020
-Scientific American
August 2019
-Scientific American
May 2019
-Prospect
March 2019
-Scientific American
November 2019
-In-Mind Magazine
June 2018
-The Psychologist
June 2018
-CREST Review
Spring 2018
-The New York Times
July 2017
-The Wall Street Journal
Feb 2017
-Harvard Business Review
December 2016
-The New York Times
December 2016
-Quartz
November 2016
-Quartz
October 2017
-The New York Times
May 2016
-Scientific American
June 2015
Schadenfreude in Gaza?
-The Washington Post
August 2014
-The New York Times
April 2014
-Scientific American
November 2013
-Scientific American
September 2013