Title: Putting the Environment Back in Person-Environment Fit Abstract: Psychology scientists have recognized for decades that individual behavior is a function of both the person and the environment. However, due to a dominant focus on individual differences, psychological data on intergroup bias have historically been collected through small, controlled experiments with the individual as the unit […]
Title: Understanding Online Discourse through Social Context and Structured Pragmatics Abstract: In an increasingly online world, understanding discourse on social media is akin to understanding our society. However, when it comes to social media discourse, a disproportionate amount of focus has been laid on content moderation via hate speech detection. In this talk, I will address […]
Speaker: Scott E. Page (University of Michigan, Santa Fe Institute). (website) Title: Organizations and Cultural Coherence Abstract: I construct a mathematical framework to elucidate and analyze the interdependence between structural features of an organization and some of its cultural attributes. By the structure of an organization, I mean whether individual actions are assigned hierarchically, agreed upon through […]
Title: The brain in the social world: Integrating approaches from psychology, neuroscience, and social network analysis Abstract: This talk will cover work integrating theory and methods from psychology, neuroscience, and social network analysis to examine how people track, encode, and are influenced by the social networks that they inhabit. One set of studies tests if, when, […]
