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Seth Frey
Google Scholar ID: DO4uc-kAAAAJ
Associate Professor, University of California, Davis
computational institutions
the commons
social complexity
cognitive science
online community
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810
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26
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66
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Popularity Feedback Constrains Innovation in Cultural Markets
2026
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Self-reflection in Automated Qualitative Coding: Improving Text Annotation through Secondary LLM Critique
2026
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A Human Behavioral Baseline for Collective Governance in Software Projects
2025
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Patterns in the Transition From Founder-Leadership to Community Governance of Open Source
2025
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Institutional Preferences in the Laboratory
2025
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Research Experience
Associate Professor in Communication at the University of California, Davis
Affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University
Research Director at Metagov
Former behavioral economist at Disney Research in Walt Disney Imagineering
Former complex systems scholar at NECSI
Conducted governance analyses of Ethereum, Colorado’s cannabis monitoring backend, and the Minecraft server ecosystem
Collaborated with Saba Siddiki on machine coding of policy texts and the Institutional Grammar Research Initiative
Collaborated with Nathan Schneider, Brian Keegan, and Peaks Krafft on digital institutional design
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66 total
Robert W. Sumner
Disney Research Studios
Mubbasir Kapadia
Rutgers University, Computer Science Department
Amy X. Zhang
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
Markus Gross
ETH Zurich, Disney Research Zurich
Co-author 5
Richard P Mann
Professor of Mathematical Ecology & Evolution, University of Leeds
Co-author 7
Barbara Solenthaler
ETH Zurich
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