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We use natural language processing and text analysis to examine social psychological processes.
Current projects involve:
Improving tools for measuring police performance and expertise in training and operational settings
Examining the role of expertise in police use-of-force decision-making
Multi-modal analysis of police body-worn camera recordings
Detecting and measuring procedural justice in police-citizen social interactions
Assessing changes in public perceptions of police using large-scale data
Initiation and development of human-social chatbot relationships
Previous projects involved:
Investigating emotional reactivity and police expertise in use-of-force decision-making
Persuasion in online verbal behavior using big data
Social support in human-social chatbot interactions
The development of common-ground understanding in computer-mediated communication
Compromise, conflict resolution, and interaction dynamics in international relations negotiations
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