Will Hobbs
Will Hobbs
Lois and Mel Tukman Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
I study politics and health, focusing on the social spillover effects of government actions and how small groups of people adapt to sudden changes in their lives.
email: [lastname]@cornell.edu
bluesky: willrhobbs.bsky.social
Working papers
Categorizing
topics versus inferring attitudes: a theory and method for analyzing
open-ended survey
responses
William
Hobbs and
Jon
Green. 2024.
Measuring
Distances in High Dimensional Spaces: Why Average Group Vector
Comparisons Exhibit Bias, And What to Do About
it
Breanna
Green,
William
Hobbs, Sofia Avila,
Pedro
Rodriguez,
Arthur
Spirling, and
Brandon
Stewart. 2024.
Publications
How
polarized are online conversations about
children?
Breanna
Green and
William
Hobbs. (forthcoming).
ICWSM ‘25.
From
Anti-Muslim to Anti-Jewish: Target Substitution on Fringe Social Media
Platforms and the Persistence of Online and Offline
Hate
William
Hobbs,
Nazita
Lajevardi, Xinyi Li, and
Caleb
Lucas. (forthcoming).
Political
Behavior.
1-22.
For
’Living Well’, Behaviors and Circumstances Matter Just as Much as
Psychological
Traits
William
Hobbs and
Anthony
Ong. 2023.
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences. 120(12): e2212867120.
Asymmetric
Flooding in Foreign Election Interference on Social
Media
Alexandra
Cirone and
William
Hobbs. 2023.
Political Science Research and
Methods.
11(1): 160-171.
Online
Engagement with 2020 Election Misinformation and Turnout in the 2021
Georgia Runoff
Election
Jon
Green,
William
Hobbs,
Stefan
McCabe, and
David
Lazer. 2022.
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences. 119(34): e2115900119.
COVID-19
Increased Censorship Circumvention and Access to Sensitive Topics in
China
Keng-Chi
Chang,
William
Hobbs,
Margaret
Roberts, and
Zachary
Steinert-Threlkeld. 2022.
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences. 119(4): e2102818119.
Offsetting
Policy Feedback: Evidence from the Affordable Care
Act
William
Hobbs and
Daniel
Hopkins. 2021.
Journal of
Politics.
83(4): 1800-1817.
Using
Administrative Records and Survey Data to Construct Samples of Tweeters
and
Tweets
Adam
Hughes,
Stefan
McCabe,
William
Hobbs,
Emma
Remy,
Sono
Shah, and
David
Lazer. 2021.
Public Opinion Quarterly. 85(S1): 323-346.
Effects
of Divisive Political Campaigns on the Day-to-Day Segregation of Arab
and Muslim
Americans
William
Hobbs and
Nazita
Lajevardi. 2019.
American Political Science
Review.
113(1): 270-276.
Major
Life Events and the Age - Partisan Stability
Association
William
Hobbs. 2019.
Political
Behavior.
41(3): 791-814.
How
Sudden Censorship Can Increase Access to
Information
William
Hobbs and
Margaret
Roberts. 2018.
American Political Science
Review.
112(3): 621-636.
Connective
Recovery in Social Networks After the Death of a
Friend
William
Hobbs and
Moira
Burke. 2017.
Nature: Human
Behaviour.
1: 92.
ConStance:
Modeling Annotation Contexts to Improve Stance
Classification
Kenneth
Joseph,
Lisa
Friedland,
William
Hobbs,
David
Lazer, and
Oren
Tsur. 2017.
EMNLP.
1115–1124.
Voters
of the Year: 19 Voters Who Were Unintentional Election Poll Sensors on
Twitter
William
Hobbs,
Lisa
Friedland,
Kenneth
Joseph,
Oren
Tsur,
Stefan
Wojcik, and
David
Lazer. 2017.
ICWSM.
544-547.
Online
Social Integration is Associated with Reduced Mortality
Risk
William
Hobbs,
Moira
Burke,
Nicholas
Christakis, and
James
Fowler. 2016.
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences.
113(46): 12980-12984.
Presidential
Effort and International Outcomes: evidence for an executive
bottleneck
David
Lindsey and
William
Hobbs. 2015.
Journal of
Politics.
77(4): 1089-1102.
Widowhood
Effects in Voter
Participation
William
Hobbs,
Nicholas
Christakis, and
James
Fowler. 2014.
American Journal of Political
Science.
58(1): 1-16.
Prediction
of Mortality Using On-Line, Self-Reported Health Data: empirical test of
the RealAge
score
William
Hobbs and
James
Fowler. 2014.
PLoS One. 9(1): e86385.
Embedded
Interests and the Managerial Local State: the political economy of
methanol fuel-switching in
China
Genia
Kostka and
William
Hobbs. 2013.
Journal of Contemporary China. 22(80):
204-218.
Local
Energy Efficiency Policy Implementation in China: bridging the gap
between national priorities and local
interests
Genia
Kostka and
William
Hobbs. 2012.
China
Quarterly.
211: 765-785.