David Rand

David G. Rand is a Professor of Information Science and Marketing and Management Communications at Cornell University, having joined the faculty in 2025 after previously serving as a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and at Yale University. His research combines behavioral experiments with computational and cognitive science models to study why people believe and share misinformation, political polarization, human cooperation, and how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs. He is a co-author, with Thomas Renault and Mohsen Mosleh, of a working paper examining partisan differences in misinformation flagging on X's Community Notes.