PREPRINTS & SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPTS

¶corresponding author; supervisee; *contributed equally
  1. Susser, D., Schiff, D.S., Cabrera, L.Y., Gerke, S., Cohen, I.G., Doerr, M., Harrod, J., Kostick-Quenet, K., McNealy, J., Meyer, M.N., Price, W.N., Wagner, J.K. Synthetic health data: Real ethical promise and peril. R&R

  2. H.C. Santos,* R.M. Mestechkin,* R.L. Vogt, D. Rosica, P.R. Heck, P. Heydari, M.I. Brown, G.M. Rosenbaum, M. Shermohammed, M.N. Meyer, C.F. Chabris. To respond or not to respond: The effect of forced and prefer not to answer options in demographic questionnaires. PsyArXiv preprint.

  3. Rosenbaum, G., Goren, A., Shermohammed, M., Wolk, D.M., Tice, A.M., Doyle, J., Meyer, M.N.,* Chabris, C.F.* Algorithm aversion or appreciation? Four randomized field trials of personalized risk-communication nudges to encourage flu vaccination. PsyArXiv preprint. Under review at Nature Human Behavior. (Earlier preprint version: Shermohammed, M., Goren, A., Lanyado, A., Yesharim, R., Wolk, D.M., Doyle, J., Meyer, M.N.,* Chabris, C.F.* Informing patients that they are at high risk for serious infection increases vaccination rates. medRxiv preprint.)

  4. Heydari, P., Meyer, M.N., Chabris, C.F. Medical rationing choice of laypeople and clinicians are often illogical and inconsistent with their own stated preferences. Preprint.

  5. Vogt, R.L.,* Heck, P.R.,* Mestechkin, R.M., Heydari, P., Chabris, C.F.,* Meyer, M.N.*¶ Aversion to pragmatic randomized controlled trials: Three survey experiments with clinicians and laypeople. Submitted to BMJ Open. medRxiv preprint.

  6. Vogt, R.L., Mestechkin, R.M., Chabris, C.F.,* Meyer, M.N.*¶ Objecting to consensual experiments even while approving of nonconsensual imposition of the policies they contain. PsyArXiv preprint. 

  7. Turley, P., Martin, A.R., Goldman, G., Li H., Kanai, M., Walters, R.K., Jala, J. B., Lin, K., Millwood, I.Y., Carey, C.E., Palmer, D.S., Zacher, M., Atkinson, E.G., Chen, Z., Li, L., Akiyama, M., Okada, Y., Kamatani, Y., Walters, R.G., Callier, S., Laibson, D., Meyer, M.N., Cesarini, D., Daly, M., Benjamin, D.J., Neale, B.M. Multi-Ancestry Meta-Analysis yields novel genetic discoveries and ancestry-specific associations. Revised and resubmitted. bioRxiv preprint.

PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS JOURNAL ARTICLES

​¶corresponding author; supervisee; *contributed equally
  1. M.N. Meyer, Papageorge, N.W., Parens, E., Regenberg, A., Sugarman, J., Thom, K. (2024) Potential corporate uses of polygenic risk indexes: Starting a conversation about the associated ethics and policy issues. American Journal of Human Genetics, 111(5), 833-840. SSRN preprint.

  2. Vogt, R., Heck, P.R., Watts, D.J., Chabris, C.F., Meyer, M.N. (2024) Experiment aversion does generalize, but it can also be mitigated. PNAS, 121(20), e2315439121.

  3. Goren, A., Santos, H.C., Davis, T.W., Lowe, L.B., Monfette, M., Meyer, M.N.,* Chabris, C.F.* Comparison of clinical decision support tools to improve pediatric lipid screening in a large integrated health system: A randomized clinical trial. The Journal of Pediatrics, 269, 113973.

  4. Zhang, S., Heck, P., Meyer, M. N., Chabris, C., Goldstein, D., Hofman, J. (2023) An illusion of predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse inferential uncertainty and outcome variability. PNAS, 120(33), e2302491120. SocArXiv preprint.

  5. Meyer, M.N., Basl, J., Choffnes, D., Wilson, C., Lazer, D. (2023). Enhancing the ethics of user-sourced online data collection and sharing. Nature Computational Science, 3, 660-664.

  6. Meyer, M.N.,* Appelbaum, P.S., Benjamin, D.J., Callier, S.L., Comfort, N., Conley, D., Freese, J., Garrison, N.A., Hammonds, E.M., Harden, K.P., Lee, S.S-J., Martin, A.R., Martschenko, D.O., Neale, B.M., Palmer, R.H.C., Tabery, J., Turkheimer, E., Turley, P., Parens, E..* (2023). Wrestling with social and behavioral genomics: Risks, potential benefits, and ethical responsibility. In The Ethical Implications of Social and Behavioral Genomics, eds. Erik Parens and Michelle N. Meyer, special report, The Hastings Center Report 53(2): S2-S49. ​SELECT COVERAGE: Science, GenomeWeb.

  7. Martschenko, D.O., Callier, S.L., Garrison, N.A., Turley, P., Lee, S.S-J., Meyer, M.N.*, Parens, E.* (2023). Wrestling with public input on an ethical analysis of scientific research. In The Ethical Implications of Social and Behavioral Genomics, eds. Erik Parens and Michelle N. Meyer, special report, The Hastings Center Report 53(2): S50-S65.

  8. Meyer, M. N., Tan, T., Benjamin, D., Laibson, D., Turley, P. (2023). Public views on polygenic screening of embryos. Science 379(6632): 541-543. SELECT COVERAGE: MIT Technology Review, Prospect Magazine (UK), Forbes, Fast Company Magazine, Times Higher Education (UK), and various outlets in France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium.

  9. Wagner, J. K., Tanniru, J., Chane, C. A., Meyer, M. N. (2022). Exploring access to genomic risk information and the contours of the HIPAA public health exception. Journal of Law and the Biosciences 9(2), 1-23.

  10. Patel, M. S., Milkman, K. L., Gandhi, L., Graci, H. N., Gromet, D. M., Ho, H., Kay, J.S., Lee, T. W., Rothschild, J., Akinola, M., Beshears, J., Bogard, J. E., Buttenheim, A., Chabris, C. F., Chapman, G. B., Choi, J. J., Dai, H., Fox, C. R., Goren, A., Hilchey, M. D., Hmurovic, J., John, L. K., Karlan, D. S., Kim, M., Laibson, D., Lamberton, C., Madrian, B. C., Meyer, M. N., Modanu, M., Nam, J., Rogers, T., Rondina, R., Saccardo, S., Shermohammed, M., Soman, D., Sparks, J., Warren, C., Weber, M., Berman, R., Evans, C. N., Lee, S. H., Snider, C. K., Tsukayama, E., Van den Bulte, C., Volpp, K. G., and Duckworth, A. L. (2022). Effect of behavioral nudges delivered through text messages to increase influenza vaccination among patients with an Upcoming Primary Care Visit: A randomized clinical trial. American Journal of Health Promotion.

  11. Lanyado, A., Wolk, D. M., Tice, A. M., Shermohammed, M., Kinar, Y., Goren, A., Chabris, C. F., Meyer, M. N., Shoshan, A., Abedi, V. (2022). Prediction of influenza complications: Development and validation of a machine learning prediction model to improve and expand identification of vaccine-hesitant patients at risk for severe influenza complications. Journal of Clinical Medicine 11(15): 4342.

  12. Awad, E., Levine, S., Anderson, M., Anderson, S. L., Conitzer, V., Crockett, M. J., Everett, J. A. C., Evgeniou, T., Gopnik, A., Jamison, J. C., Kim, T. W., Liao, M., Lin, P., Meyer, M. N., Mikhail, J., Opoku-Agyemang, K., Borg, J. S., Schroeder, J., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Slavkovik, M., Tenenbaum, J. B. (2022). Computational ethics. Trends in Cognitive Science, 26(5), 388-405.

  13. Milkman, K. L., Patel, M. S., Gandhi, L., Graci, H. N., Gromet, D. M., Ho, H., Kay, J. S., Lee, T. W., Bogard, J. E., Brody, I., Chabris, C. F., Chang, E., Chapman, G. B., Dannals, J. E., Goldstein, N., Goren, A., Hershfield, H., Hirsch, A., Hmurovic, J., Horn, S., Karlan, D. S., Kristal, A. S., Lamberton, C., Meyer, M. N., Oakes, A. H., Schweitzer, M. E., Shermohammed, M., Talloen, J., Warren, C., Whillans, A., Yadav, K. N., Zlatev, J. J., Berman, R., Evans, C. N., Snider, C. K., Tsukayama, E., Van den Bulte, C., Volpp, K. G., and Duckworth, A. L. (2022). A 680,000-person megastudy of nudges to encourage vaccination in pharmacies. PNAS, 119(6): e2115126119.

  14. Okbay, A., Wu, Y., Wang, N., Jayashankar, H., Bennett, M., Nehzati, S. M., Sidorenko, J., Kweon, H., Goldman, G., Gjorgjieva, T., Jiang, Y., Hicks, B., Chao, T., Hinds, D. A., Ahlskog, R., Magnusson, P. K. E., Oskarsson, S., Hayward, C., Campbell, A., Porteous, D. J., Freese, J., Herd, P., 23andMe Research Team, Social Science Genetic Association Consortium, Watson, C., Jala, J., Conley, D., Koellinger, P. D., Johannesson, M., Laibson, D., Meyer, M. N., Lee, J. L., Kong, A., Yengo, L., Cesarini, D., Turley, P., Visscher, P. M., Beauchamp, J. P., Benjamin, D. J., and Young, A. I. (2022). Polygenic prediction within and between families from a 3-million-person GWAS of educational attainment. Nature Genetics, 54: 437-449.

  15. ​Spector-Bagdady, K., Lynch, H. F., Bierer, B. E., Gelinas, L., Hull, S. C., Magnus, D., Meyer, M. N., Sharp, R. R., Sugarman, J., Wilfond, B. S., Yearby, R., Mohapatra, S. (2022) Allocation of opportunities to participate in clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic and other exceptional circumstances. Hastings Center Report Jan/Feb: 51-58.

  16. Polygenic Risk Score Task Force of the International Common Disease Alliance. (2021). Towards responsible use of polygenic risk scores in the clinic: assessing the potential benefits, risks, and gaps. Nature Medicine, 27: 1876-1884 (one of 26 joint banner authors).

  17. Santos, H. C., Goren, A., Chabris, C. F.*, Meyer, M. N.* (2021) Effect of targeted behavioral science messages to encourage COVID-19 vaccination among employees of a large health system: A randomized trial. JAMA Network Open, 4(7), e2118702.

  18. Turley, P.*, Meyer, M. N.*, Wang, N., Cesarini , D., Hammonds, E., Martin, A. R., Neale, B. M., Rehm, H. L., Wilkins-Haug, L., Benjamin, D. J., Hyman, S., Laibson, D., Visscher, P. M. (2021) Problems with using polygenic scores to select embryos. New England Journal of Medicine, 385(1), 78-86. SELECT COVERAGE: MIT Technology Review, Bloomberg, Scientific American, The Guardian, Times of London, US News & World Report, STAT News, Slate, Businessweek.

  19. Lussier, M., Meyer, M., Wright, E. (2021) Consequences of Rush to Emergency Use Authorization of Bamlanivimab. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 78(22): 2086-2087.

  20. DiNucci, A., et al. (2021). Feasibility and Assessment of a Cascade Traceback Screening program (FACTS): protocol for a multisite study to implement and assess an ovarian cancer Traceback cascade testing program. Journal of Personalized Medicine, 11(6), 543-554.

  21. Milkman, K. L., Patel, M. S., Gandhi, L., Graci, H. N., Gromet, D. M., Ho, H., Kay, J. S., Lee, T. W., Akinola, M., Beshears, J., Bogard, J. E., Buttenheim, A., Chabris, C. F., Chapman, G. B., Choi, J. J., Dai, H., Fox, C. R., Goren, A., Hilchey, M. D., Hmurovic, J., John, L. K., Karlan, D. S., Kim, M., Laibson, D., Lamberton, C., Madrian, B. C., Meyer, M. N., Modanu, M., Nam, J., Rogers, T., Rondina, R., Saccardo, S., Shermohammed, M., Soman, D., Sparks, J., Warren, C., Weber, M., Berman, R., Evans, C. N., Snider, C. K., Tsukayama, E., Van den Bulte, C., Volpp, K. G., and Duckworth, A. L. (2021). A mega-study of text-based nudges encouraging patients to get vaccinated at an upcoming doctor’s appointment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(20), e210116511. SELECT COVERAGE: Washington Post, Salon, USA Today, Health Affairs, Freakonomics, Daily Mail, The Guardian, CNN Philippines, Business Insider, WebMD, The Conversation, Quartz, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, MSN; cited in policy documents by the WHO, the OECD, and Dutch government.

  22. Wagner, J. K., Meyer, M. N. Genomic medicine and the “loss of chance” medical malpractice doctrine. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, 2(3), 100032, July 8: 1-9.

  23. Becker, J., et al. The Polygenic Index Repository: Resource profile and user guide. Nature Human Behavior, 5: 1744-1758.

  24. Meyer, M. N., Gjorgjieva, T., Rosica, D. Trends in health care worker intentions to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and reasons for hesitancy. JAMA Network Open, 4(3), e215344. SELECT COVERAGE: The Economist, US News & World Report, UPI.

  25. Meyer, M. N., Gelinas, L., Bierer, B., Hull, S. C., Joffe, S., Magnus, D., Mohapatra, S., Sharp, R., Spector-Bagdady, K., Sugarman, J., Wilfond, B., Lynch, H. F. (2021). An Ethics Framework for Consolidating and Prioritizing COVID-19 Clinical Trials. Clinical Trials, 18(2): 226233. Ungated PMC version.

  26. Mozersky, J., Meyer, M. N., Rahm, A. K., O’Dell, & S., Buchanan, A. (2021). Balancing external validity and concern for psychosocial harms in translational genetic research. Ethics & Human Research, 43(2):43-48.

  27. Guerrini, C. J., Sherkow, J. S., Meyer, M. N., & Zettler, P. J. (2020). Transparency is key to ethical vaccine research—Response. Science 370(6523), 1423.

  28. Guerrini, C. J., Sherkow, J. S., Meyer, M. N., & Zettler, P. J. (2020). Self-experimentation, ethics, and regulation of vaccines. Science, 369(6511), 1570-1572. SELECT COVERAGE: STAT News, Gizmodo, ABC News; Popular Mechanics; IFL Science; The Conversation (Spanish); Wiener Zeitung (Austria); El Pais (Spain); fanpage (Italy); Heti Világgazdaság (Hungary); CTV National News (Canada).

  29. Heck, P. R., Chabris, C. F., Watts, D. J., & Meyer, M. N. (2020). Objecting to experiments even while approving of the policies or treatments they compare. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(32), 18948-18950.

  30. Meyer, M. N. (2020). There oughta be a law: When does(n’t) the U.S. Common Rule apply? Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 48(1-supp), 60-73.

  31. Byrd, J. B., Bello, N., & Meyer, M. N. (2020). Pandemic pandemonium: Pausing clinical research during the COVID-19 outbreak. Circulation, online ahead of print April 22, 2020.

  32. Savatt, J. M., Wagner, J. K., Joffe, S., Rahm, A. K., Williams, M. S., Davis, F. D., Hergenrather, J., Kelly, M. A., Kirchner, H. L., Meyer, M. N., Mozersky, J., O’Dell, S. M., Pervola, J., Sturm, A. C., Buchanan, A. H. (2020). Pediatric reporting of genomic results study (PRoGRESS): A mixed-methods, longitudinal, observational cohort study to explore disclosure of actionable adult- and pediatric-onset genomic variants to minors and their parents. BMC Pediatrics 20, Article number: 222.

  33. Bobe, J., Meyer, M. N., & Church, G. M. (2020). Privacy and agency are critical to a flourishing biomedical research enterprise: misconceptions about the role of CLIA. Florida Law Review Forum 71, 58-67.

  34. Meyer, M. N., Heck, P. R., Holtzman, G. S., Anderson, S. M., Cai, W., Watts, D. J., & Chabris, C. F. (2019). Reply to Mislavsky et al.: Sometimes people really are averse to experiments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  35. Meyer, M. N., Heck, P. R., Holtzman, G. S., Anderson, S. M., Cai, W., Watts, D. J., & Chabris, C. F. (2019) Objecting to experiments that compare two unobjectionable policies or treatments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(22), 10723-10728.SELECT COVERAGE: Bloomberg (Cass Sunstein), Marginal Revolution (Alex Tabarrok), Vox, Mother Jones, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, Nautilus, UnHerd.

  36. Heck, P. R. & Meyer, M. N. (2019). Information avoidance in genetic health: Perceptions, norms, and preferences. Social Cognition, 37(3), 266-293 (preprint).

  37. Heck, P.R. & Meyer, M. N. (2019). Population whole exome screening: Primary care provider attitudes about preparedness, information avoidance, and nudging. Medical Clinics, 103(6), 1077-1092.

  38. Linnér, R. K., et al. (2019). Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences. Nature Genetics (online first https://doi.org/10.1z038/s41588-018-0309-3).

  39. Lynch, H. F., Nicholls, S., Meyer, M. N., & Taylor, H. A. (2018). Of parachutes and participant protection: Advancing effective research ethics oversight. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1177/1556264618812625, 1-7.

  40. Lee, J. L., et al. (2018). Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals. Nature Genetics, 50(8), 1112-1121.

  41. ​Marc S. Williams, et al. (2018). Implementation of patient-centered precision health in a learning healthcare system: the Geisinger experience with genomic medicine, Health Affairs, 37(5), 757-764.

  42. Meyer, M. N. (2018). Practical tips for ethical data sharing. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(1), 131-144.

  43. Buchanan, A. H., Manickam, K., Meyer, M. N., et al. (2018). Early cancer diagnoses through BRCA1/2 screening of unselected adult biobank participants. Genetics in Medicine, 20(5), 554-558.

  44. Lynch, H. F., & Meyer, M. N. (2017). Regulating research with biospecimens under the revised Common Rule. Hastings Center Report, 47(3), 3-4.

  45. Meyer, M. N. (2016). Pregnancy exclusions, posthumous pregnancy, and the Constitution. Lahey Health Journal of Medical Ethics, Spring, 6-7.

  46. Aysu Okbay, et al. (2016). Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment. Nature, 533(7604), 539-542.

  47. Aysu Okbay, et al. (2016). Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses. Nature Genetics, 48(6), 624-633.

  48. Meyer, M. N. (2015). Above the (public health) law?: Healthcare worker deception & disobedience in a time of distrust. Journal of Law, 5(1), 121-136.

  49. Meyer, M. N. (2015). Two cheers for corporate experimentation: The A/B illusion and the virtues of data-driven innovation. Colorado Technology Law Journal, 13(2), 273-331 (slides).

  50. Meyer, M. N., Lantos, J., London, A. J., McGuire, A. L., Schuklenk, U. & Stell, L. (2014). Misjudgements will drive social trials underground. Nature, 511(7509), 265 (list of 28 additional signatories).

  51. Meyer, M. N. (2013). Regulating the production of knowledge: Research risk-benefit analysis and the heterogeneity problem. Administrative Law Review, 65(2), 237-298.

  52. Meyer, M. N. (2013). Are you ready for some...research? Uncertain diagnoses, research data privacy, & preference heterogeneity. Journal of Law, 3(1), 99-110.

  53. Niels A. Rietveld, et al. (2013). GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment. Science, 340(6139), 1467-1471 (AAAS); see also FAQs.
     
  54. Meyer, M. N. (2013). From evidence-based medicine to evidence-based practice. Hastings Center Report, 43(2), 11-12.

  55. Meyer, M. N. (2011). The subject-researcher relationship: In defense of contracting around default rules. American Journal of Bioethics, 11(4), 27-30.
     
  56. Meyer, M. N. (2010). Against one-size-fits-all research ethics. Hastings Center Report, 40(5), 10-11.

  57. Meyer, M. N. & Fossett, J. F. (2009). The more things change: The new NIH guidelines on human stem cell research. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 19(3), 289-307.
     
  58. Meyer, M. N. (2008). The kindness of strangers: The donative contract between subjects and researchers and the non-obligation to return individual results of genetic research. American Journal of Bioethics, 8(11), 44-50.

  59. Meyer, M. N. (2006). Note, The plaintiff as person: Cause lawyering, human subject research, and the secret agent problem. Harvard Law Review 119, 1510-1531.

  60. Meyer, M. N. (2004). Comment, Icelandic Supreme Court holds that inclusion of an individual's genetic information in a national database infringes on the privacy interests of his child: Guomundsdottir v. Iceland. Harvard Law Review, 118, 810-817.

  61. Fletcher, J. C., Meyer, M. N., Benson, J. M. & Denk, C. E. (1998). When and why do Virginians choose to terminate treatment? Virginia Medical Quarterly, 125(2), 112-116, 119 (PubMed).