Dave Markowitz

Associate Professor @CommDeptMSU | @Stanford & @Cornell alum

[Dave Markowitz @davidmmarkowitz]

@sir4K_zen Highly scalable. The tool is for research purposes, so it can handle typical platforms like Qualtrics, Prolific, CloudResearch, etc with many rooms open simultaneously.

[Dave Markowitz @davidmmarkowitz]

🚨 Introducing Dyadic (https://t.co/p5sS0AS2KM) — a research platform for human–human and human–AI conversation studies. 🚨

Select features:
• Text/audio chat studies
• AI confederates, API integrations
• Surveys before/during/after chats
• Qualtrics + Prolific integration

[Dave Markowitz @davidmmarkowitz]

I'm excited about Dyadic's survey delivery feature. Researchers can deploy scales and open-ended questions before, during, or after conversations, pairing language data with self-reports. Please message with any feedback or questions! Preprint: https://t.co/iCvq01fjdH

[MSU News @MSUnews]

Research from @MSUComArtSci 's @davidmmarkowitz is featured in a @BBCWorld article about cynicism.
https://t.co/4XZ6XdMk3R

[Journal of Communication @Journal_Of_Comm]

Introducing JoC publication: “The (in)efficacy of AI personas in deception detection experiments”, by David M Markowitz @davidmmarkowitz , Timothy R Levine.
Read here: https://t.co/3qpngI7HNj

[Dave Markowitz @davidmmarkowitz]

@joon_s_pk @karpathy @drfeifei @adamdangelo @rauchg @scottbelsky Congrats, Joon!!

[Joon Sung Park @joon_s_pk]

Introducing Simile.

Simulating human behavior is one of the most consequential and technically difficult problems of our time.

We raised $100M from Index, Hanabi, A* BCV, @karpathy @drfeifei @adamdangelo @rauchg @scottbelsky among others.

[MSU News @MSUnews]

@MSU_EGR @govtechnews @HenryFordHealth @jpmorgan .@MSUComArtSci's @davidmmarkowitz found that AI isn't reliable for lie detection just yet. https://t.co/cxd5ozGP9Y

[MSU News @MSUnews]

Setting New Year's resolutions can mean reflecting on your personal values and how you want to be remembered.

@MSUComArtSci's @davidmmarkowitz led a @PNASNews study analyzing 38 million U.S. obituaries to examine what values people are remembered for and what constitutes a life well-lived.

[MSU News @MSUnews]

Research from @MSUComArtSci's @davidmmarkowitz was featured in an op-ed in @Inc from @BillMurphyJr. https://t.co/WPwdDRNH14

[The Conversation U.S. @ConversationUS]

Obituaries reveal shifting cultural values across time and place. Here’s what psychology researchers found when they sifted through 38 million published from 1998 to 2024 https://t.co/oeFuDNzmrr

[MSU News @MSUnews]

@MSUComArtSci @Journal_Of_Comm @OUResearch “It’s easy to see why people might want to use AI to spot lies — it seems like a high-tech, potentially fair, and possibly unbiased solution. But our research shows that we’re not there yet,” said @CommDeptMSU's @davidmmarkowitz, the study's lead author. https://t.co/nSdIlwlRRO

[Dave Markowitz @davidmmarkowitz]

Prior work shows AI is often truth-biased in text-based deception detection. In our new 12-study paper in JOC, we find a substantial lie-bias in audiovisual deception detection during mock interrogations. Read more here! https://t.co/wbOdQqcXNI

[Yixiao Sun @dagny_suen]

How societies remember the dead can reveal what people value in life.

🕯️ Drawing on Schwartz’s theory of basic human values, this research tells an important psychological and cultural story about how societies remember human beings and what constitutes a meaningful life 📝

[MSU News @MSUnews]

.@MSUComArtSci's @davidmmarkowitz led a @PNASNews study analyzing 38 million US obituaries to see how we remember the deceased.

[Dave Markowitz @davidmmarkowitz]

New in @PNASNews! We analyzed 38 million US obituaries to see how we remember the deceased:
- Tradition & benevolence dominate legacies
- Major cultural events (e.g., 9/11) shifted what values were emphasized
- Gender & age of the deceased shape legacies
https://t.co/xsZnmjnXWr

[Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @law_fiore]

🪦New in @PNASNews: we analyzed 38 million U.S. obituaries to ask what signals a life well lived:

What values are people most remembered for?

How do legacies shift with cultural events?

How do age and gender shape what it means to have lived well?

https://t.co/xgZd3dM7Fg

[Dave Markowitz @davidmmarkowitz]

New in @PNASNews! We analyzed 38 million US obituaries to see how we remember the deceased:
- Tradition & benevolence dominate legacies
- Major cultural events (e.g., 9/11) shifted what values were emphasized
- Gender & age of the deceased shape legacies
https://t.co/xsZnmjnXWr

[Dave Markowitz @davidmmarkowitz]

@msbernst Congrats, Michael!

[20th Century Studios @20thcentury]

Jeremy Allen White is Bruce Springsteen in the new trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. In theaters October 24.