Delphine Gardiner | Computational Social Science Lab

From the Executive Corner: CSSLab’s One-Year Retrospective

Mar 10, 2022 | News

On March 10th, the CSSLab celebrated one year of working to define the new field of computational social science. To mark its anniversary month, the Lab’s Executive Director, Valery Yakubovich, reflects upon our mission to adapt the core principles of CSS...

Want to reduce political polarization? Start by looking beyond politics

Jan 20, 2022 | Featured, News, PennMAP, Published

PHILADELPHIA, January 20, 2022 — Is bonding over non-political similarities the key to depolarizing political discussions? New research sheds light on how even hardliners can be swayed when coming in contact with opposing viewpoints. In many friend groups, politics is...

How biased narratives impact our judgment — even when we’re aware of it happening

Jan 11, 2022 | Featured, News, PennMAP, Published

PHILADELPHIA, January 11, 2022 — Does explicitly acknowledging bias make us less likely to make biased decisions? A new study examining how people justify decisions based on biased data finds that this is not necessarily the case. Narrative-based explanations of what...

Call for Abstracts for IC²S² 2022

Dec 22, 2021 | News

The 8th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC²S²) solicits submissions of ongoing research, including (a) work that advances methods and approaches for computational social science, (b) data-driven work that describes and discovers social,...

What Big Data Reveals About Online Extremism

Nov 29, 2021 | Featured, News, PennMAP

Originally published by the Annenberg School for Communication PHILADELPHIA, November 22, 2021 — Homa Hosseinmardi and her colleagues at Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab studied browsing data from 300,000 Americans to gain insights into how online...