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B.A., Gettysburg College, 2008
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2017

Name Pronunciation Guide:
"DAY-vid HOW-zer"

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Research Interests

David studies judgment and social cognition, namely how communication guides our inferences, preferences, and reasoning. His work investigates how seemingly innocuous words color evaluations, how metaphors guide understanding of abstract concepts like disease and health, and how common survey methods shape research conclusions.

Selected Publications

Hillman, J. G., Antoun, J., & Hauser, D. J. (2023). The improvement default: People presume improvement when lacking information. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Moss, A. J., Hauser, D. J., Rosenzweig, C., Jaffe, S. Robinson, J., & Litman, L. (2023). Using Market Research Panels for Behavioral Science: An Overview and Tutorial. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 6, 1-25.

Hauser, D. J. & Schwarz, N. (2023). Semantic prosody: How neutral words with collocational positivity/negativity color evaluative judgments. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32, 98-104.

Hauser, D. J., Moss, A. J., Rosenzweig, C., Jaffe, S. Robinson, J., & Litman, L. (2023). Evaluating CloudResearch’s Approved Group as a solution for problematic data quality on MTurk. Behavior Research Methods, 55, 3953-3964.

Hauser, D. J. & Fleming, M. E. (2021). Mother nature’s fury: Antagonist metaphors for natural disasters increase forecasts of their severity and encourage evacuation. Science Communication, 43, 570-596.

Hauser, D. J. & Schwarz, N. (2020). The war on prevention II: Battle metaphors undermine cancer treatment and prevention and do not increase vigilance. Health Communication, 1-7.

Hauser, D. J., Ellsworth, P. C., & Gonzalez, R. (2018). Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 998.

Hauser, D. J. & Schwarz, N. (2018). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 75, 11-18.

Hauser, D. J., Nesse, R. M., & Schwarz, N. (2017). . In Zedelius C., Muller, B., & Schooler J. W. (Eds.) The science of lay theories: How beliefs shape our culture, cognition, and health. (pp. 341-354). Springer.

Hauser, D. J. & Schwarz, N. (2016). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 882-896.

Hauser, D. J. & Schwarz, N. (2016). . Behavior Research Methods, 48, 400-407.

Hauser, D. J. & Schwarz, N. (2015). SAGE Open, 5, 1-6.

Hauser, D. J. & Schwarz, N. (2015). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 66-77.

Hauser, D. J., Preston, S. D., Stansfield, R. B. (2014). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 1295-1305.

Meier, B. P., Hauser, D. J., Robinson, M. D., Friesen, C. K., & Schjeldahl, K. (2007). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 699-710.