Betsy Levy Paluck
Psychologist
Elizabeth (Betsy) Levy Paluck is a professor in the department of psychology and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where she also serves as deputy director of the Center for Behavioral Science & Policy. She is known for her work on prejudice, social norms and conflict reduction. She is best known for creating large-scale field experiments utilizing theoretical social psychology strategies and tools to formulate effective and practical methods for reducing conflict and discrimination. Due to her extensive work investigating the influences of the Rwandan genocide and her work with high school bullying, Paluck is considered a leading authority on field-tested methods of changing intolerant and aggressive social behavior.
In 2017, Paluck won the MacArthur Fellow Award, known as the "Genius Grant" for "[u]nraveling how social networks and norms influence our interactions with one another and identifying interventions that can change destructive behavior."
Paluck has published over 50 academic papers and has been profiled, quoted and interviewed in the New Yorker, Slate, NPR, the Cut and various Psychology magazines.
Advisory positions and distinctions
Ideas 42, Senior Researcher, Advisory Board
Princeton University Old Dominion Faculty Fellow
Princeton University Experiments in Governance and Politics, Executive Committee (EGAP)
Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity
Affiliate, Crime Lab New York, Urban Labs, University of Chicago
Select awards
2024 American Academy of Political and Social Science Award
2017 MacArthur Award Winner, "Genius Grant"
2013 The Sage Young Scholars Award from the Society of Personal and Social Psychology
2010 Cialdini Prize for Field Research
Selected articles
Paluck, E. L. (2006). Diversity training and intergroup contact: A call to action research. Journal of Social Issues, 62(3), 577–595.
Paluck, E. L. (2009). Reducing intergroup prejudice and conflict using the media: a field experiment in Rwanda.
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