Jackson Trager

PhD student @USC ~ Researching the Moral Psychology of Conflict

[USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences @USCDornsife]

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Our Communicators of the Year share their expertise with audiences far beyond campus, weighing in on topics from war and global politics to climate change, wealth inequality, literature and microbial life deep beneath Earth’s surface.

Congratulations to @davidulin, Robert English, Karen Lloyd (@archaearama), Carly Kenkel (@DrCarlsHorn), and @Jackson_Trager!

https://t.co/1X59hBX3Ga

[Merrick Osborne @osborne_merrick]

I am excited to share some new research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology!!!! This is work done in collaboration with @SuhaibAbdurahm1, @Ali0mrani, @Jackson_Trager, and @MortezDehghani

https://t.co/iIDwDPNBKy

Read all about it below 👇🏿

[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

🚨 New Chapter Preprint: Is Empathic AI Possible?

W/ @firat_sekr & Aliah Zewail

Many AI researchers treat empathy as something to engineer into machines. But empathy is shaped by culture and context. We must first accept that there is no single "human" empathy.

@cam_lab_umass

[Culture and Morality Lab @cam_lab_umass]

New paper by @MohammadAtari90 and @Jackson_Trager

[Jackson Trager @Jackson_Trager]

Happy to share our paper is now out in @PNASNexus !!!

[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

Is it morally wrong to have too much money?

In our new paper, just out in PNAS Nexus, we (with @Jackson_Trager ) addressed the question:

THREAD

[Culture and Morality Lab @cam_lab_umass]

New paper from the Culture and Morality Lab @NatureHumBehav

“We discuss the need for psychology to adopt a more holistic lens and propose a research agenda that integrates historical processes, cultural dynamics and ecological variations into psychological inquiry.”

[Zhivar Sourati @ZSourati]

How do LLMs shape writing? Our research shows they make language more uniform, reducing diversity and altering how personal traits appear in text. These shifts have big implications for identity, culture, and fairness.
#LLMs #NLProc
https://t.co/zwhmSpBbxz

[Anthony G Vaccaro @AGVacca]

Considering mixed emotions in psychology and neuroscience will vastly improve the applicability of our research to people's lives! Excited to have this piece out with @USNewsOpinion and @ConversationUS
https://t.co/9u3mqE2MC4

[PNAS Nexus @PNASNexus]

Using AI in psychology research may be convenient, but there are potential pitfalls. Rather than simulating a large pool of participants, AI models are more like a single WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) person. In PNAS Nexus: https://t.co/ejyGiIwH5e

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

More powerful tools for analyzing moral sentiment on social media, from @MortezDehghani and his team at USC: the Moral Foundations Reddit Corpus!

[Azim Shariff @azimshariff]

2:25: 5-min Flash Talks 2:
4. Jackson Trager (@Jackson_Trager) - Country-level Moralization of Excessive Wealth

[Azim Shariff @azimshariff]

2:25: 5-min Flash Talks 2:
3. Farzan Karimi-Malekabadi (@karimi_farzan) - Moral Values Predict County-Level COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in the United States