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Digital Behavior, Wellness, and Affect: Exploring the effects of wellness practices and digital help-seeking behavior on mental health

Rising mental health concerns in the U.S. (Wilson, 2022) underscore the need to identify influencing factors. Poverty profoundly affects well-being (Marbin 2022), highlighting the importance of considering the impact of socioeconomic factors such as income on mental health. Some studies suggest a strong negative correlation between excessive cell phone use and mental health, (Daniyal, 2022) however findings are mixed (Brinberg 2021).

Affective Sensitivity to Air Pollution (ASAP): Person-specific associations between daily air pollution and affective states

Individuals’ sensitivity to climate hazards is a central component of their vulnerability to climate change. In this paper, we introduce and outline the utility of a new intraindividual variability construct, affective sensitivity to air pollution (ASAP)...

Get Off Your Phone?? By Why?! Commentary on the Personal, Societal, and Corporate Motivations of Smartphone Use via Notifications and Creative Outlets

Our relationships to our phones are complicated...

America’s Quietest Emergency: Exposing, identifying and analyzing suicide contagion in institutions of higher learning

Social influence processes can induce desired or undesired behavior change in individual members of a group...

Bayesian Methods Tutorials for Psychological Research

Methods for collecting psychologically relevant data and modeling these data are rapidly advancing. Bayesian statistical methods have emerged as a set of particularly useful techniques, both within cognitive psychology and more broadly in psychological science...

Stanford Psychology Podcast: Learning from The Human Screenome Project

Anjie chats with Dr. Nilam Ram. Nilam is a Professor of Communications & Psychology

Modeling and managing behavior change in groups: A Boolean network method

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...

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 Democracy

Data live in graphs and statistics.