Social influence processes can induce desired or undesired behavior change in individual members of a group. Empirical modeling of group processes and the design of network-based interventions meant to promote desired behavior change is somewhat limited because the models often assume that the social influence is assimilative only and that the networks are not fully connected.
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Climate Impacts of Digital Use Supply Chains
Information and communications technology (ICT) has become an indispensable part of our lives. Prior research on climate impact of ICT devices and services mostly makes use of life cycle assessment and energy modeling frameworks focused on embodied greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Summer 2024 Undergraduate Opportunities
Undergraduate students are encouraged to contribute their own research interests and life perspectives while developing advanced research projects alongside a fast-moving collective of graduate students, post-docs, and faculty working at the edges of the possible.
Data Science & Aging
Have you ever wondered about the cutting-edge world of aging research? Is it about the quest for immortality, or perhaps revolutionizing geriatric healthcare? How do academic and industry perspectives differ in dealing with this vital challenge?
Stanford Mini-Conference on Longitudinal Methods
Presentations developed in conjunction with COMM 365/PSYCH 289 Longitudinal Data Analysis in Social Science Research (Instructor Prof Nilam Ram).
Winter 2024 Class: Ensemble Sonification Of Temporal Data
An ensemble course with research components for making data-driven music. Improvised and composed pieces make use of large, time-based data sets chronicling humans' digital-life and real-life experiences, and explore how temporal data can be transformed into live musical performances.
Time for Change
The devices in our pockets and on our wrists often demand our immediate attention. They also facilitate full-scale reconsideration of how we study and optimize human behavior.
The Affective Dynamics of Everyday Digital Life: Opening Computational Possibility
Up to now, there was no way to observe and track the affective impacts of the massive amount of complex visual stimuli that people encounter “in the wild” during their many hours of digital life.
The Change Lab Goes To The Affective Science Annual Conference 2023 in Long Beach, CA
Developmental Change in Infants’ Emotion Regulation Readiness and Regulation Proclivity; Tracking Divergence of Well-Being across Time; and Change in Affect as Individuals Move Through Physical and Digital Green Space in Everyday Life.
Analyzing Psychological Dynamics in the Multilevel Modeling Framework
A psychological dynamic is a conceptualization of psychological activity that includes a psychological state and the perturbation of that state by some dynamic. I studied psychological dynamics by quantitatively operationalizing and modeling them as follows:
No Evidence that Digital Activity is Related to Long or Short-term Changes in Depressive Symptoms
Individuals are engaged with digital activity on their smartphones through all stages of moods or wellness periods. Prior research into mental health’s relation to smartphone use has been mixed.