Chrystal Redekopp

Director of Research: Politics and Social Change Lab
Director of Research: AI for Public Benefit lab
Director of Research: Laboratory for Social Research
Chrystal Redekopp

Chrystal Redekopp is a Director of Research at Stanford University, where she leads research across the Politics and Social Change Lab (PaSCL), the AI for Public Benefit Lab, and the Laboratory for Social Research. Her work examines political polarization, democratic attitudes, and strategies for social change, and has been published in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behaviour, and Nature Climate Change.

She founded and directs PaSCL’s Emerging Scholars Program, a training and mentorship pipeline that prepares early-career researchers for graduate and professional study, with more than 120 alumni advancing to leading PhD programs and schools including Harvard, Stanford, Yale Law School, Harvard Business School, and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

She is an alumna of the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with Highest Honors in Sociology, Highest Distinction in General Scholarship, and was named a University Medal Candidate.

Latest Publications

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

Druckman, J. N., Kang, S., Chu, J., Stagnaro, M. N., Voelkel, J. G., Mernyk, J. S., Pink, S. L., Redekopp, C., Rand, D. G., & Willer, R. (2023). Correcting exaggerated meta-perceptions reduces American legislators’ support for undemocratic practices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(23), e2301836120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2301836120

Voelkel, J. G., Chu, J., Stagnaro, M. N., Mernyk, J., Pink, S., Redekopp, C., Druckman, J., Rand, D., & Willer, R. (2023). Interventions reducing affective polarization do not improve anti-democratic attitudes. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(1), 55-64. doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01466-9

Voelkel, J. G., Malik, M., Redekopp, C., & Willer, R. (2022). Changing Americans’ attitudes about immigration: Using moral framing to bolster factual arguments. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 700(1), 73-85. doi: 10.1177/00027162221083877

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