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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.

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?