Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mathematical Biology
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
Harvard University
One Brattle Sq, Floor 6, Room 637
Cambridge MA, 02138 [map]

Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard University
23 Everett St, Cambridge MA

Email: drand@fas.harvard.edu

CV: drand-cv.pdf

I organize a weekly Monday afternoon seminar on Cooperation @ the Berkman Center: Schedule and details

Interview on NPR's "All things considered", 3/19/2008: mp3

A bit of my photography: Picasa

My super-hero alter ego: Ka-zar

Collaborators: Johan Almenberg, Mazharin Banaji, Max Bazerman, Nicholas Beale, Yochai Benkler, Peter Blake, Nicholas Christakis, Daniel Chen, Fiery Cushman, Anna Dreber, Tore Ellingsen, Drew Fudenberg, Kurt Gray, Josh Greene, John Horton, Magnus Johannesson, Erez Lieberman, Deepak Malhotra, Michael Manapat, Cynthia Montgomery, Mayuko Nakamaru, Martin Nowak, Hisashi Ohtsuki, Thomas Pfeiffer, Amitai Shenhav, Corina Tarnita, Richard Zeckhauser

Publications

1. Blake PR, Rand DG (In press) Currency value moderates equity preference among young children. Evolution and Human Behavior. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.06.012 (PDF)
   
   Press: New England Cable News NECN [video]
   
   
2. Pfeiffer T, Rand DG, Dreber A (2009) Decision-making in research tasks with sequential testing. PLoS ONE 4, e4607. (PDF)
   
   
3. Rand DG*, Dreber A*, Ellingsen T, Fudenberg D, Nowak MA (2009) Positive interactions promote public cooperation. Science 325, 1272-1275. (PDF)
   
   

   Press: Cover of Science, Science podcast interview [audio], Scientific American, New Scientist, Harvard Gazette, Voice of America [audio], Not Exactly Rocket Science, MSN, Science and Religion Today, Science and Religion Today Answers Column, Psych Central, Forbes, Discover Magazine, US News & World Reports, Grits For Breakfast Law Blog, Neuroethics at the Core, Nature Networks, Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), OneIndia , Science Centric, Science Daily, Thaindian News, Ethiopian Review, Irish Sun

   
   
   
4. Rand DG, Dreber A, Ellingsen T, Fudenberg D, Nowak MA (2009) Weighing Reward and Punishment — Response. Science 326, 1632-1633. (PDF)
   
   
5. Rand DG, Ohtsuki H, Nowak MA (2009) Direct reciprocity and costly punishment: Generous tit-for-tat prevails. J Theor Biol 256, 45-57. (PDF)
   
   
6. Rand DG, Pfeiffer T (2009) Systematic differences in impact across publication tracks at PNAS. PLoS ONE 4, e8092. (PDF)
   
   Press: The Scientist, Worth a Thousand Words, The Scholarly Kitchen, Digital & Scholarly, European Association of Science Editors
   
   
7. Rand DG*, Pfeiffer T*, Dreber A, Sheketoff RW, Wernerfelt NC, Benkler Y (2009) Dynamic remodeling of in-group bias during the 2008 presidential election. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 6187-6191. (PDF)
   
   

   Press: Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, USAToday, Press Release from Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Business Week

   
   
   
8. Dreber A*, Rand DG*, Fudenberg D, Nowak MA (2008) Winners don't punish. Nature 452, 348-351. (PDF)
   
   

   Press: Daily Telegraph, NPR's All Things Considered [audio], New York Times, Boston Globe / AP, Bloomberg, Harvard Gazette, Huffington Post, Not Exactly Rocket Science, NY Times Freakonomics, Reuters, Science and Religion Today, Science Centric, Science Daily, The Hindu, Time / AP, Thaindian News, DNA, Writing in Faith, Decision Quality

   
   
   
9. Rand DG, Zhou Q, Buzzard G, Fox JJ (2008) Computationally efficient strategy for modeling the effect of ion current modifiers. IEEE T Bio-Med Eng, 55 3-13. (PDF)
   

Popular press publications

1. Rand DG, Nowak MA (2009) How reputation could save the Earth. New Scientist, 2734 28-29. (PDF)
   

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