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Ilana Redstone

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Contact Information

326 Lincoln Hall MC-454
702 South Wright Street
Associate Professor

Biography

The Certainty Trap is now available on Amazon.

"...the rare combination of essential research, engaging prose, and the potential for real world application..." 
Eli Saslow, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Rising out of Hatred

Research Interests

Viewpoint diversity

Political polarization

Education

PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2005

Courses Taught

SOC 230, Sociology of Political Polarization: Bigots and Snowflakes
SOC 163, Social Problems
SOC 280, Introduction to Social Statistics


Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Sociology
Affiliate, Center for Social & Behavioral Science

Highlighted Publications

Redstone, I., & Villasenor, J. (2020). Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190078065.001.0001

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Recent Publications

Redstone, I. (2024). The Certainty Trap: Why We Need to Question Ourselves More — and How We Can Judge Others Less. Pitchstone Publishing.

Akresh, I. R., & Massey, D. S. (2023). Duration of Residence Measurement. In Selected Topics in Migration Studies (pp. 205-206). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19631-7_35

Clark, C. J., Graso, M., Redstone, I., & Tetlock, P. E. (2023). Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence. Psychological Science, 34(7), 834-848. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976231168777

Iceland, J., & Redstone, I. (2020). The declining earnings gap between young women and men in the United States, 1979–2018. Social Science Research, 92, Article 102479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102479

Redstone, I., & Villasenor, J. (2020). Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190078065.001.0001

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