Publications

2003 The Republican assault on "political hate speech" Brendan Nyhan · Spinsanity · Scholar only 3 2004 All the President’s Spin: George W. Bush, the Media and the Truth. Brendan Nyhan · New York: Touchstone 143 2004 Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature at which Michael Moore’s pants burn Brendan Nyhan · Spinsanity · Scholar only 4 2004 Political hate speech": A case study in the use of language as a political weapon Brendan Nyhan · Spinsanity · Scholar only 4 2006 Review of Thr´ainn Eggertsson, Imperfect Institutions: Possibilities and Limits of Reform (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005) Brendan Nyhan · Public Choice 2 2008 Bush, George W.” and “Miller, Warren. Brendan Nyhan · International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences — 2008 Party and Constituency in the U.S. Senate, 1933–2004. Brendan Nyhan · Why Not Parties? 20 2009 9/11 and birther misperceptions compared Brendan Nyhan · Scholar only 20 2009 The green lantern theory of the presidency Brendan Nyhan · Brendan Nyhan · Scholar only 9 2010 A first take on Election 2010 Brendan Nyhan · Scholar only 3 2010 Bayesian Model Averaging: Theoretical Developments and Practical Applications Brendan Nyhan · Political Analysis 246 2010 How much are Tea Party candidates hurting the GOP? Brendan Nyhan · Brendan Nyhan. com · Scholar only 4 2010 Midterm postmortem Brendan Nyhan · Boston Review · Scholar only 9 2010 Obama versus FDR and LBJ Brendan Nyhan · Scholar only 2 2010 Pundits blame the victims on Obama muslim myth Brendan Nyhan · Scholar only 2 2010 When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions Brendan Nyhan · Political Behavior 4,833 2010 Why the ‘Death Panel’ Myth Wouldn’t Die: Misinformation in the Health Care Reform Debate. Brendan Nyhan · The Forum 249 2011 How Political Science Can Help Journalism (and Still Let Journalists Be Journalists). Brendan Nyhan · The Forum 22 2011 The Limited Effects of Testimony on Political Persuasion Brendan Nyhan · Public Choice 14 2011 The ‘Unfriending’ Problem: The Consequences of Homophily in Friendship Retention for Causal Estimates of Social Influence Brendan Nyhan · Social Networks 172 2012 Academic reforms: A four-part proposal Brendan Nyhan · Scholar only 3 2012 Breaking the pack journalism paradigm Brendan Nyhan · Columbia Journalism Review · Scholar only 2 2012 Does fact-checking work? False statements are wrong metric Brendan Nyhan · Columbia Journalism Review · Scholar only 5 2012 Does the US Media Have a Liberal Bias? A Discussion of Tim Groseclose’s Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind. Brendan Nyhan · Perspectives on Politics 27 2012 Enabling the jobs report conspiracy theory Brendan Nyhan · Columbia Journalism Review · Scholar only 5 2012 One Vote Out of Step? The Effects of Salient Roll Call Votes in the 2010 Election Brendan Nyhan · American Politics Research 195 2012 Political knowledge does not guard against belief in conspiracy theories Brendan Nyhan · YouGov: Model Politics · Scholar only 9 2012 The Role of Social Networks in Influenza Vaccine Attitudes and Intentions Among College Students in the Southeastern United States Brendan Nyhan · Journal of Adolescent Health 84 2013 Backsliding on the "death panels" myth Brendan Nyhan · Columbia Journalism Review · Scholar only 3 2013 Beliefs Don’t Always Persevere: How Political Figures Are Punished When Positive Information about Them Is Discredited Brendan Nyhan · Political Psychology 108 2013 Boosting the Sandy Hook truther myth: The dangers of covering fringe misperceptions Brendan Nyhan · Columbia Journalism Review · Scholar only 2 2013 Countering misinformation: Tips for journalists Brendan Nyhan · Columbia Journalism Review · Scholar only 4 2013 Fast and wrong beats slow and right Brendan Nyhan · Columbia Journalism Review · Scholar only 10 2013 Polarized, not factionalized Brendan Nyhan · Scholar only 6 2013 The Hazards of Correcting Myths about Health Care Reform Brendan Nyhan · Medical Care 454 2013 The scandal attention cycle Brendan Nyhan · Columbia Journalism Review · Scholar only 2 2013 When “he said,” “she said” is dangerous Brendan Nyhan · Columbia Journalism Review [Internet].[Accessed 2015 Jan 27]. Available · Scholar only 12 2014 Effective Messages in Vaccine Promotion: A Randomized Trial Brendan Nyhan · Pediatrics 1,767 2014 Putting the bundle back together? Brendan Nyhan · Columbia Journalism Review · Scholar only 4 2014 Review of Milton Lodge and Charles S. Taber, The Rationalizing Voter (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013) Brendan Nyhan · Public Opinion Quarterly 3 2015 Answering on cue? How corrective information can produce social desirability bias when racial differences are salient Brendan Nyhan · Scholar only 22 2015 APSA as Amplifier: How to Encourage and Promote Public Voices within Political Science. Brendan Nyhan · PS: Political Science & Politics 8 2015 Connecting the Candidates: Consultant Networks and the Diffusion of Campaign Strategy in American Congressional Elections Brendan Nyhan · American Journal of Political Science 114 2015 Displacing Misinformation about Events: An Experimental Test of Causal Corrections Brendan Nyhan · Journal of Experimental Political Science 227 2015 Does Correcting Myths about the Flu Vaccine Work? An Experimental Evaluation of the Effects of Corrective Information Brendan Nyhan · Vaccine 855 2015 Estimating Fact-checking’s Effects: Evidence from a long-term experiment during campaign 2014. Brendan Nyhan · American Press Institute 21 2015 Increasing the Credibility of Political Science Research: A Proposal for Journal Reforms. Brendan Nyhan · PS: Political Science & Politics 61 2015 Scandal Potential: How Political Context and News Congestion Affect the President’s Vulnerability to Media Scandal Brendan Nyhan · British Journal of Political Science 194 2015 The Diffusion of Fact-checking: Understanding the growth of a journalistic innovation. Brendan Nyhan · American Press Institute 66 2015 The Effect of Fact-checking on Elites: A Field Experiment on U.S. State Legislators Brendan Nyhan · American Journal of Political Science 451