Betsy Levy Paluck’s pathbreaking field-based experimental interventions have changed the way social psychologists conduct empirical research about the dynamics of real-world settings. Her work examines social norms and conflict reduction in a wide variety of large-scale contexts, such as anti-bullying interventions in high schools and efforts to reduce intergroup prejudice and heal trauma after the Rwandan genocide, and her success in replicating these randomized interventions has challenged previous notions about the impracticality of conducting field experiments in ecologically valid environments.
Professional positions
- 2009–present: Assistant (2009–2014), associate (2014–2016), full (2016–2023), and Eugene Higgins (2023–present) Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Notable publications
- Paluck, Elizabeth Levy, Roni Porat, Chelsey S. Clark, and Donald P. Green. 2020. “Prejudice Reduction: Progress and Challenges.” Annual Review of Psychology 72: 533–560.
- Paluck, Elizabeth Levy, Seth A. Green, and Donald P. Green. 2018. “The Contact Hypothesis Re-evaluated.” Behavioural Public Policy 3(2): 129–158.
- Paluck, Elizabeth Levy, Hana Shepherd, and Peter M. Aronow. 2016. “Changing Climates of Conflict: A Social Network Experiment in 56 Schools.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(3): 566–571.
- Paluck, Elizabeth Levy. 2009. “Reducing Intergroup Prejudice and Conflict Using the Media: A Field Experiment in Rwanda.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 96(3): 574–587.
Degrees
- PhD, psychology, Yale University
- BS, psychology, Yale University
