Reuben Kline
· Associate ProfessorStony Brook University · Political Science
Active 1994–2025
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About
Reuben Kline is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University, a position he has held since 2018 after joining the department in 2011. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science with a concentration in Political Economy/Public Choice from the University of California, Irvine. His academic background also includes a Master of Arts in Mathematical Behavioral Science and a Master of Science in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, as well as a Master of Arts in International Trade and Investment Policy from George Washington University. Kline is the Director of the Behavioral Political Economy Lab at Stony Brook University and serves as the editor of the newsletter for the American Political Science Association’s organize section on Experimental Research. His research employs behavioral game theory, experiments, and survey research to investigate social dilemmas, climate change mitigation behavior, behavioral ethics, public opinion, and voting. He is currently studying the effects of moral hazard related to geoengineering solutions and using climate games to experiment on disaster prevention strategies. His work has been published in prominent journals such as Nature Climate Change, Nature Human Behaviour, and the Journal of Politics, among others.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Ecology
- Psychology
- Microeconomics
- Economics
- Computer Science
- Sociology
- Public relations
- Law and economics
- Social psychology
Selected publications
High-risk high-reward investments to mitigate climate change
Nature Climate Change · 2018-08-29 · 43 citations
articleSenior authorAnticipating moral hazard undermines climate mitigation in an experimental geoengineering game
Ecological Economics · 2022 · 42 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingDifferentiated responsibilities and prosocial behaviour in climate change mitigation
Nature Human Behaviour · 2018-08-30 · 28 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingToo many ways to help: How to promote climate change mitigation behaviors
Journal of Environmental Psychology · 2022 · 19 citations
Loss-Framed Arguments Can Stifle Political Activism
Journal of Experimental Political Science · 2019-01-01 · 16 citations
articleSenior authorAbstract Research commonly finds that citizens are loss averse: they dislike losses far more than similarly sized gains. One implication is that arguments for policy change framed in terms of losses to be avoided often have a larger impact on public opinion than arguments framed in terms of gains to be enjoyed. Although several scholars have observed this pattern with respect to public opinion, we know far less about the effect of loss- and gain-framed arguments on political activism. This is a…
Frequent coauthors
- 8 shared
Talbot M. Andrews
University of Connecticut
- 8 shared
Andrew W. Delton
Stony Brook University
- 8 shared
Christopher Stout
Oregon State University
- 7 shared
Fabio Galeotti
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- 6 shared
Raimondello Orsini
- 3 shared
Adam Seth Levine
Johns Hopkins University
- 3 shared
Autumn Bynum
University of Toronto
- 3 shared
Nicholas Seltzer
Education
Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine
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