Programs › Stanford, CA
Studies the psychology of virtual and augmented reality, building and studying VR systems that change social interaction and can transform education, environmental conservation, empathy, and health.
Studies deliberative democracy, developing Deliberative Polling, which uses random citizen samples to explore how opinions would change if people were more informed, with polls held in 28 countries.
Studies the economics of news and media markets, including investigative journalism, regulation through disclosure, and computational journalism tools that lower the cost of story discovery.
Studies psychological and interpersonal processes in social media and AI-mediated communication, including misinformation, deception and trust, and technology's effects on well-being.
Studies the role of mass media in democratic societies, including news effects on public opinion, negative campaigning, and political psychology.
Studies attitude formation, strength, and change, the psychology of political behavior, and questionnaire design and survey methodology, including American public opinion on climate change.
Studies political communication and authoritarian politics in China, using experimental and computational methods with large-scale data to examine censorship, propaganda, and information manipulation.
Studies moment-to-moment and lifespan change in psychological and media processes such as emotion regulation, using intensive longitudinal designs and smartphone, sensor, and social media data.
Studies psychological processing of media, including attention, memory, and emotion, through experiments on interactive technologies and moment-by-moment screen data from the Human Screenome Project.
Studies media technology and cultural change in American life since World War II, tracing through historical research how counterculture, art, and Silicon Valley shaped digital utopianism.
Studies the social and cultural impact of algorithms and AI, using ethnography to examine web journalism metrics, influencers and algorithmic labor, predictive tools in courts, and AI ethics.
Studies how personality is expressed and shaped in physical and digital everyday contexts, using mobile sensing, experience sampling, longitudinal field studies, and machine learning.
Studies the history of information technology and knowledge production, tracing how speech recognition and natural language processing shaped AI and algorithmic culture.