Jennifer M. Larson
Associate Professor of Political Science
Vanderbilt University
Word-of-mouth networks in action
"Reducing Prejudice Towards Refugees: Evidence that Social Networks Influence Attitude Change in Uganda" with Janet I. Lewis. American Political Science Review, 2024. Appendix Bibtex cite
"Linking Perspectives: A Field Experiment on the Role of Multi-Layer Networks in Refugee Information Sharing" with Aaron T. Clark and Janet I. Lewis. Applied Network Science, 2024. Bibtex cite
"How Information Spreads through Multi-Layer Networks: A Case Study of Rural Uganda" with Janet I. Lewis. In Complex Networks and Their Applications, 2023. Bibtex cite
"From Chatter to Action: How Social Networks Inform and Motivate in Rural Uganda" with Janet I. Lewis and Pedro Rodríguez. British Journal of Political Science, 2022. Appendix Bibtex cite
"Networks of Conflict and Cooperation. " Annual Review of Political Science, 2021. Bibtex cite
"Rumors, Kinship Networks, and Rebel Group Formation" with Janet I. Lewis. International Organization, 2018. Appendix Bibtex cite
"Why the West Became Wild: Informal Governance with Incomplete Networks." World Politics, 2017. Appendix Bibtex cite
"The Weakness of Weak Ties for Novel Information Diffusion." Applied Network Science, 2017. Corrigendum Cor. Appendix Bibtex cite
"Networks and Interethnic Cooperation." Journal of Politics, 2017. Appendix Bibtex cite
"Ethnic Networks" with Janet I. Lewis. American Journal of Political Science, 2017. Appendix Bibtex cite
"Information Diffusion in Heterogeneous Groups." In Complex Networks and Their Applications, 2016. Bibtex cite
"The Evolutionary Advantage of Limited Network Knowledge." Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2016. Bibtex cite
"Interethnic Conflict and the Potential Dangers of Cross-Group Ties." Journal of Peace Research, 2016. Appendix Bibtex cite
Networks research design
Designing Empirical Social Networks Research. Cambridge University Press, 2024. More info Bibtex cite
"The Risk of Aggregating Networks when Diffusion is Tie-Specific" with Pedro Rodríguez. Applied Network Science, 2023. Bibtex cite
"Sometimes Less is More: When Aggregating Networks Masks Effects" with Pedro Rodríguez. In Complex Networks and Their Applications, 2022. Bibtex cite
"Measuring Networks in the Field" with Janet I. Lewis. Political Science Research and Methods, 2020. Appendix Bibtex cite
"Testing Social Science Network Theories with Online Network Data: An Evaluation of External Validity" with James Bisbee. American Political Science Review, 2017. Appendix Bibtex cite
New
technologies
"Synthetic Replacements for Human Survey Data? The Perils of Large Language Models" with James Bisbee, Joshua D. Clinton, Cassy Dorff, and Brenton Kenkel. Political Analysis, 2024. Appendix Bibtex cite
"#polisci Twitter: A Descriptive Analysis of how Political Scientists Use Twitter in 2019" with James Bisbee and Kevin Munger. Perspectives on Politics, 2022. Appendix Bibtex cite
"Social Networks and Protest Participation: Evidence from 130 Million Twitter Users" with Jonathan Nagler, Jonathan Ronen, and Joshua A. Tucker. American Journal of Political Science, 2019. Appendix Bibtex cite
"Collective Action in the Information Age: How Social Media Shapes the Character and Success of Protests." In Protest and Democracy, 2019. Bibtex cite