ROBIN BAYES
MY RESEARCH
Despite growing concern about public resistance to scientific findings in domains such as climate change and masking during the COVID-19 pandemic, the political drivers of disbelieving and discrediting science are not yet well-understood. Broadly, my research agenda seeks to identify when and how belief change on politicized science issues is possible. Currently, I am pursuing two major research trajectories, based on the concepts of moral conviction and motivation.
PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2023. Bayes, Robin, Toby Bolsen, and James N. Druckman. “A Research Agenda for Climate Change Communication and Public Opinion: The Role of Scientific Consensus Messaging and Beyond.” Environmental Communication 17(1): 16-34.
2022. Molden, Daniel C., Robin Bayes, and James N. Druckman. “A Motivational Systems Approach to Investigating Opinions on Climate Change.” Thinking & Reasoning 28(3): 396-427.
2020. Bayes, Robin, James N. Druckman, Avery Goods, and Daniel C. Molden. “When and How Different Motives Can Drive Motivated Political Reasoning.” Political Psychology 41(5): 1031-1052.
EDITOR-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2022. Bayes, Robin. “Moral Convictions and Threats to Science.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 700(1): 86-96.
2022. Bayes, Robin, James N. Druckman, and Alauna C. Safarpour. “Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 700(1): 220-233.
2021. Bayes, Robin, and James N. Druckman. “Motivated Reasoning and Climate Change.” Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 42: 27-35.
BOOK CHAPTERS
2022. Bayes, Robin. “Moral Conviction: A Challenge in the Age of Science Politicization”. In Molecular Biology and Clinical Medicine in the Age of Politicization, eds. Toby Bolsen and Risa Palm, 195-214. Cambridge, MA: Academic Press.
2021. Levy, Jeremy, Robin Bayes, Toby Bolsen, and James N. Druckman. “Science and the Politics of Misinformation.” In The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism, eds. Howard Tumber and Silvio Waisbord. New York: Routledge.
2016. Bayes, Robin (as Robin Xu). “Looking Beyond Fossil Fuel Divestment: Combating Climate Change in Higher Education”. In The Contribution of Social Sciences to Sustainable Development at Universities, eds. Walter Leal Filho and Michaela Zint, 39-54. Switzerland: Springer.