Bryce Linford

Education

Ph.D., Psychology (expected 2026), UCLA

M.A., Organizational Behavior (2020), The Ohio State University

M.A., Experimental Psychology (2017), University of Central Oklahoma

B.S., Finance (2014), Brigham Young University

I am currently a PhD student studying psychology at UCLA. My main research focus is on how people sample information from their social networks to guide their judgments and decisions (termed social sampling). I also study the relationship between people's social networks and their attitudes and beliefs, and how the structure of social networks shapes the emergence of consensus and shared narratives.

In my free time I enjoy skiing, hiking, camping, reading, and creative writing

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Klein, H. J., Lount, R. B., Park, H. M., & Linford, B. (2020). When goals are known: The effects of audience relative status on goal commitment and performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105, 372-389.

Manuscripts Under Review

Priniski, H., Linford, B., Hirschmann, A, Krishna, S., Morstatter, F., Rodriguez, N., Brantingham, J., & Lu, H. Network structure shapes consensus dynamics through individual decisions. Invited to revise and resubmit (minor revisions), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Linford, B., Ichien, N., Holyoak, K., & Lu, H. Integration of chained semantic relations in analogical mapping. Under review, Memory & Cognition.

Manuscripts in Preparation

Priniski, H., Linford, B., Cao, D., Morstatter, F., Brantingham, J., & Lu, H. Effect-prompting shifts the narrative framing of networked interactions.

Chapters in Edited Books

Klein, H. J. & Linford, B. (2018). Workplace Commitment. In R. Griffin (Ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Management. Oxford University Press.

Conference Proceedings

Priniski, H., Linford, B., Cao, D., Morstatter, F., Brantingham, J., & Lu, H. (2025). Effect-prompting shifts the narrative framing of networked interactions. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47.

Linford, B., Priniski, H., & Lu, H. (2024). Social sampling in decision making for online and offline activities. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.

Priniski, H., Linford, B., Krishna, S., Morstatter, F., Brantingham, J., & Lu, H. (2024). Online network topology shapes personal narratives and hashtag generation. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.

Linford, B., Ichien, N., Holyoak, K., & Lu, H. (2022). Impact of semantic representations on analogical mapping with transitive relations. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44.

Conference Presentations

Linford, B., Klein, H. J., & Lount, R. B. (2019). Commitment conflict, activation, and enactment. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Boston, MA.

Linford, B. (2017). Matching the right feedback to the right person: The interaction of process and outcome feedback with goal orientation. Annual Conference of the Oklahoma Psychological Society. Edmond, OK.

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