Winter 2023 Brown Bag series – Jennifer Whitson, UCLA Anderson School of Management

Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303

Jennifer Whitson UCLA Anderson School of Management Title: Conspiracy Theories and the Search for Structure Abstract: Conspiracy theories cast disparate or unrelated entities as engaging in concerted, malevolent action. In this talk, I explore antecedents and consequences of beliefs in conspiracy theories. I first present evidence that individual characteristics (i.e., regulatory focus, political identity) and aspects about […]

Jennifer Pan – Brown Bag Talk “Digital Repression”

Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303

Abstract: Repression research examines the causes and consequences of actions or policies that are meant to, or actually do, raise the costs of activism, protest, and/or social movement activity. The rise of digital and social media has brought substantial increases in attention to the repression of digital activists and movements and/or to the use of digital […]

Measuring Media Accuracy workshop

Colleagues, The Measuring Media Accuracy workshop, funded by the Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership at UCLA, is on Friday February 17th at the Luskin Conference Center. The details are attached in pdf.  The program is as follows: 9:15    Welcome, by Stuart Soroka (UCLA, website) 9:30    Robert Bond (Ohio State University, website) 10:30  Amber Boydstun (UC Davis, website) 11:30  Christopher Wlezien (UT Austin, website) 12:30  Lunch 1:45    Kasper Welbers (VU University […]

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