This page features research projects, academic and non-academic publications by our members, postdoctoral researchers and students in response to the COVID-19 situation.

Research Projects

* CSDC members, post-docs and students in bold

• COVID-19 beyond concrete: the effect of public policies on prejudices and the adjustement’s processes of the Canadian population during a crisis – Roxane de la Sablonnière (PI), Donald M. Taylor , Jean-Marc Lina, Dietlind Stolle , Mathieu Pelletier-Dumas

• Citizens’ Attitudes Under the COVID-19 Pandemic – Ruth Dassonneville, Éric Bélanger, Richard Nadeau, Jean-François Daoust, Erick Lachapelle

• Coping with Crisis: A psychosocial investigation into democratic processes during COVID-19 – Dietlind Stolle (PI), Colin Scott, Isadora Borges Monroy, Costin Ciobanu, Olivier Jacques, Maxime Blanchard, Olivier Bergeron-Boutin.

• From hand washing graphics to Tiger King tweets: Public information about the novel coronavirus circulating as memes in Canada – Fenwick McKelvey (PI)

• The Impact of visual data on Canadians’ views about COVID – André Blais (PI), Vincent Arel-Bundock , Peter Loewen , Semra Sevi, Maxime Coulombe, Emmanuel Heisbourg, Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski, Paola Vegas, Marco Mendoza-Avina.

• COVID-19 projections, media, and attitudes toward preventive measures – Frédérick Bastien (PI), Jean-François Daoust

• COVID-19 and the Transformation of Canadian Public Opinion: A Panel Study – Allison Harell (PI), Laura French Bourgeois, Victoria Esses, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Peter Loewen, Daniel Rubenson, Laura Stephenson

• Les contours de l’acceptabilité sociale des algorithmes à l’ère de la COVID-19 – Yannick Dufresne (PI)

Academic Publications

* CSDC members, post-docs and students in bold

• June 2020, SocArXiv – How to survey citizens’ compliance with COVID-19 public health measures? Evidence from three survey experiments – Jean-François Daoust, Richard Nadeau, Ruth Dassonneville, Erick Lachapelle, Éric Bélanger, Justin Savoie, Clifton van der Linden

• June 2020, OSF-Preprints – All in this together: deservingness of government aid during the COVID-19 pandemic – Aengus Bridgman, Eric Merkley

• June 2020, Canadian Journal of Political Science – To follow or not to follow: Social norms and civic duty during a pandemic – Laura French Bourgeois, Allison Harell,  Laura B. Stephenson

• May 2020, OSF-Preprints – The Causes and Consequences of COVID-19 Misperceptions: Understanding the Role of News and Social Media – Aengus Bridgman, Eric Merkley, Peter John Loewen, Taylor Owen, Derek Ruths, Lisa Teichmann, Oleg Zhilin

• April 2020, SocArXiv – How to survey citizens’ compliance with COVID-19 public health measures? Evidence from three survey experiments – Jean-François Daoust, Richard Nadeau, Ruth Dassonneville, Erick Lachapelle, Éric Bélanger, Justin Savoie, and Clifton van der Linden

• April 2020, SocArXiv – The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Political Support: Some Good News for Democracy – André Blais, Damien Bol, Marco Giani, and Peter J. Loewen

• April 2020, Canadian Journal of Political Science – Logarithmic vs. Linear Visualizations of COVID-19 Cases Do Not Affect Citizens’ Support for Confinement – Semra Sevi, Marco Mendoza Aviña, Gabrielle Peloquin-Skulski, Emmanuel Heisbourg, Paola Vegas, Maxime Coulombe, Vincent Arel-Bundock, Peter Loewen and André Blais.

Non-academic publications

* CSDC members, post-docs and students in bold

• August 2020, The Star – COVID-19 conspiracies creating a ‘public health crisis’ in Canada, experts say – Aengus Bridgman, Taylor Owen

• August 2020, CBC News – When it comes to COVID-19 misinformation, even some health-care workers fall prey, study finds – Aengus Bridgman, Taylor Owen

• August 2020, The Morning Show – Coronavirus conspiracies spreading at alarming rates across Canada, experts say – Aengus Bridgman, Taylor Owen

• August 2020, National Post – COVID-19 conspiracy theories are creating a ‘public health crisis’ in Canada: experts – Aengus Bridgman, Taylor Owen

• July 2020, Global News – Coronavirus: Social media users more likely to believe false information, McGill study suggests – Aengus Bridgman, Taylor Owen

• July 2020, Journal de Montréal – COVID-19: corrélation entre les fausses informations des médias sociaux et le non-respect des règles sanitaires – Aengus Bridgman, Taylor Owen

• July 2020, iHeart Radio – McGill Researchers find Facebook and Twitter are misinformation spreaders – Aengus Bridgman, Taylor Owen

• July 2020, La Presse –  J’ai fait mes recherches – Aengus Bridgman

• July 2020, Radio Canada –  Les usagers des médias sociaux plus vulnérables aux faussetés sur la COVID-19 – Aengus Bridgman, Taylor Owen

• July 2020, CTV News – Canadians who turn to social media for COVID-19 news more prone to misconceptions: study – Aengus Bridgman, Taylor Owen

• July 2020, Montreal Gazette – People who get news from Twitter and Facebook more likely to be misinformed: McGill study – Aengus Bridgman, Taylor Owen

• July 2020, Policy Opinions Publiques – Sondage: Quelles politiques adopter après la crise? – Olivier Jacques 

• May 2020, Policy Opinions Politiques – Concern about pandemic differs across gender and race lines – Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Allison Harell, Laura Stephenson

• April 2020, Democratic Audit – Covid-19 lockdowns: early evidence suggests political support and trust in democracy has increased – André Blais, Damien Bol, Marco Giani and Peter Loewen

• April 2020, UdeM Nouvelles – Étudier l’effet des politiques publiques sur les préjugés et les processus d’adaptation à la crise de la COVID-19 – Dominique Nancy, interview with Roxane de la Sablonnière

• April 2020, Policy Opinions Politiques – How Canadia’s pandemic response is shifting political views? – Allison Harell

• March 2020, Le Devoir – Gestion de crise, tartelettes et hybridité médiatique – Philippe Dubois