About

I’m a behavioral science researcher interested in knowledge representation, collective behavior, political judgment, and trust. I currently work for the Human Cooperation Lab at MIT, serving on a team led by Tom Costello, Dave Rand, and Gordon Pennycook that studies belief change due to interactions with large language models. Some of work is here and here. I’m also a visiting scholar at Sloman Lab, where I co-edited a special issue of Topics In Cognitive Science on collective cognition. Previously I studied individual and group behaviors associated with COVID-19 at The Policy Lab at Brown University (some of our work is published here, here, and here); trust in government at MIT GOV/LAB; and private sector climate change efforts at Harvard Business School. Way back when I worked on misinformation at Tufts University, led a review of political cognition for the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, and managed the Arts & Mind Lab at Boston College.

Contact me via natrabb at gmail.

l-r: Bruce Nauman video corridor; Sol Lewitt wall drawing; old passport photo