Izzy Gainsburg is a social psychologist and Associate Director of Stanford University’s Politics and Social Change Lab (PASCL). He helps lead the lab’s research program, cultivate partnerships with government and civil-society organizations, translate findings for practitioners and the public, and chart PASCL’s strategic direction. His scholarship clusters around three threads: persuasion and intervention design (with a side of AI); compassion, moral concern, and altruism; and meta-science and field-building.
