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APS Virtual Poster Showcase

Macro-Level Psychology: New Data and Approaches to Understanding Aggregate Measures of the Social Mind

Friday, May 22, 2020 · Virtual

Oral · Methodology

The individual mind exists within the macro-level of the community. Big data now makes it possible to examine macro-level psychology by aggregating respondents across geography, time, or demographics. This symposium integrates recent data and methods to theorize about the meaning and operation of macro-level psychology of attitudes, stereotypes, and language.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Tessa CharleswothChair
    Harvard University

Presentations

  1. Predicting Regional Intergroup BiasEric Hehman
  2. What Are We Learning from Language? Associations between Gender Biases and Distributional Semantics in 25 LanguagesMolly Lewis, Gary Lupyan
  3. Using Machine Learning (Word Embeddings) to Uncover Gender Stereotypes across DevelopmentTessa Charlesworth, Mahzarin Banaji
  4. Spatiotemporal Methods Are the Future of Psychological Science and a Bridge to Broader DisciplinesBlair Johnson