Found out a team I’m co-leading won a small research grant. We’ll be looking at “constructive discussion” in relation to contentious public issues (like wealth inequality, climate change mitigation and adaptation, urban development). It’s a quick, exploratory project so won’t answer everything or solve the worlds problems (yet 🙂), but should be fun and useful!
Many people feel they work in pointless, meaningless jobs, research confirms: The theory that many people feel the work they do is pointless because their jobs are "bullshit" has been confirmed by a new study. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-people-pointless-meaningless-jobs.html
Wooooo! I handed in the revision of my latest nonfiction book, which should be out by next summer from WW Norton. Here's a sneak peek at the table of contents. #books#history#psychologicalwar#psyops#socialscience
Teens engaged in activism become better critical thinkers, study finds: Youth involved in community-based activism over time become better critical thinkers and more politically active, according to a new University of Michigan study. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-teens-engaged-critical-thinkers.html
New study (N = 896) suggests that white-collar workers may remain silent in the face of abusive supervision practices because they’re more concerned about losing their status and privileges relative to blue-collar workers.
New social psychology research finds conservatives’ beliefs that immigrants aren’t supporting the American system enough explains their bias against immigrants and supports a new “Perceived System Justification Deficit Model of Prejudice”.
New social psychology studies find people’s motive to conform to their group’s norms predicts both their ingroup love and, to a lesser extent, their outgroup hate.
In related news, I'm excited to announce that I'm part of 2 new NOAA-funded #research projects focused on #flood warning communications to different segments of the public. #Vermont currently making a good case for being one of our study areas. #Hydrology#SocialScience#SciComm
Delving into the insightful book "Making Social Science Matter" by Bent Flyvbjerg. As a PhD student in management with an engineering background, Flyvbjerg's exploration of the challenges in social science research truly resonated with me. #SocialScience#Research#BookReview https://tinyurl.com/mtc8v6ev
Researchers look at how AI (large language models or LLMs in particular) could change the nature of social science research.
Igor Grossmann et al. (2023) AI and the transformation of social science research. Science. 380: 1108 DOI: 10.1126/science.adi1778
Careful bias management and data fidelity are key https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi1778
If you don't care about social media companies newly charging exorbitant fees for API usage for #disinformation research, maybe you'll care about this other kind of social science research. Consider all the quantified cultural heritage we are losing when only VC-backed LLM factories can access internet history. Dirthatted wankclownery. #DigitalHumanities#Reddit#PushShift#Culture#Sociology#internetculture#socialscience
Datasci.social is a server for researchers & practitioners in human-centric data science, broadly defined, like network science, computational social science, geospatial data science:
Our survey on friendships, sexual and romantic relationships closes soon (5/31)!
If you're 18+ in the US (& especially if you're #asexual / #aromantic / #queer),
my collaborators (Canton Winer at UCI and Hannah Tessler at Yale) and I would love to include your perspective in our study.
Our new work investigates the effect of varying the labels used to describe immigrants.
Across nine countries (N = 2,844), we found that “participants perceived ‘migrants’ as bringing more benefits to their countries than both ‘refugees’ and ‘asylum seekers’, which translated into more positive attitudes towards immigrants.”
In their new article, Arturo L. Fitz Herbert, Reynaldo Rivera, Frank Ketelhohn, and Fern Elsdon-Baker investigate the relationship between religion and science in Argentina, showing that religious scientists often hide their beliefs.
Does social media polarize voters? Unprecedented experiments on Facebook users reveal surprises (www.science.org)
But some are concerned about Meta’s role in the unusual collaboration between industry and academia