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: 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 elections to open more polling places lead to higher voter turnout? Public officials who administer elections make decisions about the operation of elections, and these […]
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 […]
Title: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, a journalistic intervention aimed at verifying the accuracy of claims and information, is seen as a key strategy to address this issue. While early studies suggested a […]
Title: 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 attend to the same information, the predictive diversity that underlies crowd wisdom may be lost. We explore this tension within the context of decision support […]
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, […]
Title: Emotional Representation: Identifying the Characteristics and Consequences of Elected Officials Mirroring the Emotions of Their Constituents (with Christopher Stout, Gregory Leslie, and Elizabeth Schroeder) Abstract: In this study, we identify a previously overlooked component of representation, which we label ‘emotional representation.’ Emotional representation occurs when elected officials mirror the dominant emotional state of […]
ABSTRACT: Researchers who conduct population surveys face escalating costs and declining response rates, as they aim to collect data that is representative, trustworthy, and publishable. Sample recruitment is often prohibitively expensive to researchers, and cheap convenience samples are fraught with representation and quality issues. NORC at the University of Chicago has built a survey panel […]
