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Elizabeth Levy Paluck is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, affiliated with both the Department of Psychology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Her research focuses on using social psychological theory to drive societal change, particularly in reducing prejudice, conflict, and gender-based violence through interventions rooted in social norms. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and has conducted field experiments in Central Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the U.S., emphasizing causal inference and behavioral measurement.
Her work has led to notable interventions like the Roots Curriculum for schools, reducing conflict through student-driven norm changes. Awards include the 2017 MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship and the 2024 AAPSS David Riesman Fellowship. She advises graduate students in psychology and public policy, with current advisees including Sydney Garcia, Sana Khan, and Alex Sanchez. Paluck collaborates extensively on open science practices, contributing to transparency initiatives like the Nature Communications study on social science methods (2023).
Her labs and teams address global challenges, such as reducing intimate partner violence in Uganda through religious leader engagement (2022) and analyzing Supreme Court rulings' societal impacts (2023). She prioritizes bridging academic research with real-world policy, emphasizing participatory practices to foster societal justice.
