Department Speaker Series: Swabha Swayamdipta (USC, Computer Science)

Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303

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 […]

CPG: Christian Grose (USC, Political Science)

Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303

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 […]

Department Speaker Series: Jimmy Calanchini (UCR, Psych)

Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303

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 […]

Ashley Martin, Ph.D. – Brown Bag Talk

Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303

Gendered 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 a critical component of seeing someone—or something—as human. Given gender’s primacy in social cognition, I propose that gender is linked to “seeing human” in a way that cannot […]

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 […]

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 […]

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