Dean Eckles

Researcher at MIT Sloan studying behavioral science and social media experiments. His research focuses on social influence, network effects, and field experimentation on digital platforms.

Key papers

• Rumor Cascades — Large-scale empirical study of rumor propagation on Facebook
• Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online — Field experiment on Twitter showing that reminders to focus on accuracy improve sharing of accurate news
• Shared partisanship dramatically increases social tie formation in a Twitter field experiment