“Hot Paper” Spotlight: Senators and Greed Communication
What talking-points predict the reach and approval of US senators? Well, according to a recent study*, it might be greed. In a paper led by Dr. Eric Mercadante (a UBC Psychology Grad Student at the time of the study, but now a post-doc at NYU Stern School of Business), researchers looked at every tweet of every sitting […]
“Hot Paper” Spotlight: AI-generated questionnaires
AIs sure can do a lot – summarize a text, remove a picture’s background, create a travel itinerary, so on and so forth, but can they generate psychological tests? Yes – at least according to a recent paper co-lead authored by Dr. Friedrich Götz and Dr. Rakoen Martens. In this paper*, researchers first developed the […]