Research

Academic papers I have published or am working on now (non-exhaustive). See Google Scholar profile for full list of published work. *Denotes shared first authors; in-prep research is in lighter font.

Current main papers

Lin*, H., Garro*, H., Wernerfelt, N., Shore, J. C., Hughes, A., Deisenroth, D., Barr, N., Berinsky, A., Eckles, D., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. (under review, Nature). Reducing misinformation sharing at scale using digital accuracy prompt ads. PsyArxiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/u8anb
Lin, H., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D.G. (2023). Thinking more or thinking differently? Using drift-diffusion modeling to illuminate why accuracy prompts decrease misinformation sharing. Cognition, 230(2023), 105312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105312

Misinformation

Lin, H., Savio, M.T., Huang, X., Steiger, M., Guevara, R.L., Szostak, D., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. (under review). Accuracy prompts protect professional content moderators from the illusory truth effect. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gswm6
Pennycook, G., Berinsky, A., Bhargava, P., Lin, H., Cole, R., Goldberg, B., Lewandowsky, S., & Rand, D. (revise-resubmit, Nature Human Behaviour). Technique-based inoculation and accuracy prompts must be combined to increase accuracy discernment.
Lin*, H., Garro*, H., Wernerfelt, N., Shore, J. C., Hughes, A., Deisenroth, D., Barr, N., Berinsky, A., Eckles, D., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. (under review, Nature). Reducing misinformation sharing at scale using digital accuracy prompt ads. PsyArxiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/u8anb
Lin, H., Lasser, J., Lewandowsky, S., Cole, R., Gully, A., Rand, D.G., & Pennycook, G. (2023). High level of correspondence across different news domain quality rating sets. PNAS Nexus, 2(9), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad286
Lin, H., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D.G. (2023). Thinking more or thinking differently? Using drift-diffusion modeling to illuminate why accuracy prompts decrease misinformation sharing. Cognition, 230(2023), 105312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105312
Bhargava, P., MacDonald, K., Newton, C., Lin, H., & Pennycook, G. (2023). How effective are TikTok misinformation debunking videos? Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-114
Lin, H., Rand, D.G., & Pennycook, G. (2023). Conscientiousness does not moderate the association between political ideology and susceptibility to fake news sharing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001467

Hybrid laboratory-field experiments

Lin*, H., Epstein*, Z., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. (2022). Quantifying attention via dwell time and engagement in a social media browsing environment. NeurIPS Conference Workshop. https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10464
Epstein*, Z., Lin*, H., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. (2022). How many others have shared this? Experimentally investigating the effects of social cues on engagement, misinformation, and unpredictability on social media. arXiv, 2207.07562v1. http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07562v1
Epstein*, Z., & Lin*, H. (2022). Yourfeed: Towards open science and interoperable systems for social media. arXiv, 2207.07478v1. http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07478v1

Philosophy of science and methods

Lin, H. (2023). The scientific value of explanation and prediction (commentary). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e399. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23001735
Lin, H., Werner, K.M., & Inzlicht, M. (2021). Promises and perils of experimentation: The mutual-internal-validity problem. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(4), 854-863. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620974773

Decision neuroscience and neurocognitive bases of cognitive control and effort allocation

Lin, H., Westbrook, A., Fan, F., & Inzlicht, M. (2024). An experimental manipulation of the value of effort (registered report). Nature Human Behavior, 2024, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01842-7
Fusco, G., Scandola, M., Lin, H., Inzlicht, M., & Aglioti, S.M. (2024). Modulating preferences during intertemporal choices through exogenous midfrontal transcranial alternating current stimulation: A registered report. Cortex, 171, 435-464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.09.019
Lin, H., Ristic, J., Inzlicht, M., & Otto, A.R. (2022). The average reward rate modulates behavioral and neural indices of effortful control allocation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01905
Depow, G. J., Lin, H., & Inzlicht, M. (2022). Cognitive effort for self, strangers, and charities. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 15009. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19163-y
Umemoto, A., Lin, H., & Holroyd, C. B. (2022). Electrophysiological measures of conflict and reward processing are associated with decisions to engage in physical effort. Psychophysiology, e14176. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14176
Frömer*, R., Lin*, H., Wolf, C.K.D., Inzlicht, M., & Shenhav, A. (2021). Expectations of reward and efficacy guide cognitive control allocation. Nature Communications, 12(1030), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21315-z
Umemoto, A., Lin, H., & Inzlicht, M. (2021). Cost-benefit analysis in physical effort expenditure: An electrophysiological registered report (stage 1). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mc4by
Lin, H., Saunders, B., Friese, M., Evans, N. J., & Inzlicht, M. (2020). Strong effort manipulations reduce response caution: A preregistered reinvention of the ego-depletion paradigm. Psychological Science, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620904990
Lin, H., & Vartanian, O. (2018). A neuroeconomic framework for creative cognition. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(6), 655-677. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691618794945
Lin, H., Saunders, B., Hutcherson, C.A., & Inzlicht, M. (2018). Midfrontal theta and pupil dilation parametrically track subjective conflict (but also surprise) during intertemporal choice. NeuroImage, 172, 838-852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.10.055
Saunders, B., Lin, H., Milyavskaya, M., & Inzlicht, M. (2017). The emotive nature of conflict monitoring in the medial prefrontal cortex. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 119, 31-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.01.004