Brian Guay

Biography

Brian Guay is an incoming Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University (beginning in September 2023). He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Duke University, a B.A. in psychology and political science from the University of Richmond, and was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT.  

Research

Brian’s research is at the intersection of political psychology, public opinion, and methodology, with a specific focus on political misinformation, polarization, and social media. His research agenda centers on questions related to the origins and consequences of misinformation: what are the cognitive foundations of misinformation, what are its implications for an increasingly polarized political environment, and how can we slow its spread? In addressing these questions, he draws from theories of social and cognitive psychology and uses a wide range of methods, including surveys, field experiments, and natural language processing. His work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Public Opinion Quarterly.

Guay, B. & Johnston, C. (2022). “Ideological Asymmetries and the Determinants of Politically Motivated Reasoning." American Journal of Political Science.

 Guay, B. & Lopez, J. (2021). “Partisan Bias in Bipartisan Places? A Field Experiment Measuring Attitudes Toward the Presidential Alert." Public Opinion Quarterly.

Valentino, N., Zirkhov, K., Hillygus, D.S., & Guay, B. (2020). “The Political Consequences of Personality Biases in Online Panel Surveys." Public Opinion Quarterly.

 Bail, C., Guay, B., Maloney, E., Combs, A., Hillygus, D.S., Merhout, F., Freelon, D., & Volfovsky, A. (2020). “Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency’s Impact on the Political Attitudes and Behaviors of American Twitter Users in Late 2017." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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