Ashley Martin, Ph.D. – Brown Bag Talk
Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303Gendered Cognition: The Primacy of Gender in Seeing Human What does it mean to be (seen as) human? In this talk, I explore this question and show that the attribution of gender is […]
Department Speaker Series: Jimmy Calanchini (UCR, Psych)
Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303Title: 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 […]
CPG: Christian Grose (USC, Political Science)
Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303Title: Do Funding Communications Increase Election Officials' Willingness to Open More Polling Places? A Field Experiment Abstract: Can encouragement communications cause election officials to open more polling places? Does increasing spending on […]
Department Speaker Series: Swabha Swayamdipta (USC, Computer Science)
Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303Title: 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 […]
CPG: Je Hoon Chae (UCLA, Communication)
Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303Title:Robust Persuasive Effect of Political Fact-Checking and Remaining Challenges Abstract:The proliferation of misinformation and the persistent gap in factual information among partisans represent significant concerns in contemporary U.S. politics. Fact-checking, […]
CPG: Marlon Twyman (USC, Communication & Computer Science)
Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303Title: Metawisdom of the Crowd: How Choice Within Aided Decision Making Can Make Crowd Wisdom Robust Abstract: Quality information can improve individual judgments but make group decisions less accurate; if individuals […]
Department Speaker Series: Scott Page (University of Michigan, Business, Political Science, Complex Systems, and Economics)
Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303Speaker: 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 […]