Research

Peer-reviewed Publications

1. Berwald, Rachel. (Forthcoming). “The Power of Pre-existing Beliefs: How Misinformation and Vote Choice Influenced Public Trust in Brazil’s 2022 Presidential Election.” Revista Latinoamericana de Opinión Pública.
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Working Papers

1. Teaching Beyond Partisanship: Using Pedagogy and AI for Media Literacy Interventions
2. The Salience of Political Identity in Brazil
3. Correcting Misinformation, but Sustaining Conclusions: The Role of Emotional and Partisan Attachments in Narrative Persistence (with Seonhye Noh)

Public Facing Scholarship

1. “Interventions to Counter Polarization: Lessons from the Global North and Applications to the Global South” (with Joshua Goetz, Dan Harker, Connor Warshauer, Sabrina Habchi, AP Turek, and Nikita Savin). Evidence for Governance and Politics (Berkeley, CA) September 2023.
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2. “Cross–Party Program Approaches: An evidence review” (with Paige Rumelt, Anoushka Chandarana, and Mariz Younan). IRI (Washington, D.C.) August 2022.
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