Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Short presentation
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen and the Director of Graduate Studies (studieleder) for the interdisciplinary MSc in Social Data Science. At UCPH, I am also affiliated with the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) and coordinate the Welfare, Inequality, and Mobility research group. In my research, I use computational and experimental methods to examine intergroup relations leveraging digital trace, text, survey, and administrative data. Before joining the UCPH faculty, I earned my B.A. from Freie Universität in my hometown Berlin, Germany, and my Ph.D. from Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina.
In my recent work, I have combined Google search, census, and military register data to study the link between discrimination and radicalization, investigated the conditions and potential solutions for political polarization using interactive online experiments and combinations of digital trace data, large-scale field experiments, and panel surveys, and contributed to multi-team studies of uncertainty and variability in social science research.
Office hours: Tuesdays 15:00–16:00 in room 16.1.49.
Keywords
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Computational social science
- Intergroup relations
- Immigration
- Cultural Sociology
- Social Psychology
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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An Online experiment during the 2020 US–Iran crisis shows that exposure to common enemies can increase political polarization
Jahani, E., Gallagher, N., Merhout, F., Cavalli, N., Guilbeault, D., Leng, Y. & Bail, C. A., 2022, In: Scientific Reports. 12, 1, 19304.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency’s impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of American Twitter users in late 2017
Bail, C. A., Guay, B., Maloney, E., Combs, A., Hillygus, D. S., Merhout, F., Freelon, D. & Volfovsky, A., 7 Jan 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 1, p. 243-250Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile129 Citations (Scopus)76 Downloads (Pure) -
How Many Replicators Does It Take to Achieve Reliability: Investigating Researcher Variability in a Crowdsourced Replication
Merhout, F. & Breznau, N., 2021, 37 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report › Research
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Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform
Combs, A., Tierney, G., Guay, B., Merhout, F., Bail, C. A., Hillygus, D. S. & Volfovsky, A., 2023, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 7, 9, p. 1454-1461Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty
Breznau, N., Rinke, E. M., Wuttke, A., Nguyen, H. H. V., Adem, M., Adriaans, J., Alvarez-Benjumea, A., Andersen, H. K., Auer, D., Azevedo, F., Bahnsen, O., Balzer, D., Bauer, G., Bauer, P. C., Baumann, M., Baute, S., Benoit, V., Bernauer, J., Berning, C., Berthold, A. & 31 others, , 2022, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119, 44, 8 p., 2203150119.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Observing Many Researchers Using the Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals a Hidden Universe of Uncertainty
Merhout, F. & Breznau, N., 2021, 19 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report › Research
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Socioeconomic Status and Diet Quality in College Students
Merhout, F. & Doyle, J., 1 Jul 2019, In: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 51, 9, p. 1107-1112Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The Crowdsourced Replication Initiative: Investigating Immigration and Social Policy Preferences using Meta-ScienceExecutive Report
The Crowdsourced Replication Inititative, 26 Jan 2019, 37 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report › Research
Open Access
Press/Media
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Impact of Russian IRA trolls on the U.S. electorate in 2017
Friedolin Merhout, Christopher A. Bail, Alexander Volfovsky, Brian Guay, Emily Maloney, Aidan Combs, D. Sunshine Hillygus & Deen Freelon
25/11/2019 → 06/12/2019
13 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Online influence operations targeting the 2020 U.S. presidential election
02/09/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Effect of anti-Muslim sentiment on pro-ISIS sentiment
Friedolin Merhout, Christopher A. Bail & Peng Ding
19/03/2017 → 10/07/2018
6 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media