John Tawa

Principal investigator for the Behavioral Ethnic and Racial Studies (BEARS) lab 🐼 at Mount Holyoke College.

[John Tawa @saitawa]

@AmandaKMontoya @EikoFried Thanks Amanda!

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Mechanical Turk plays a big role in research & it worked well for years… but there are ominous signs:
📉Invalid data in MTurk only happened in ~10% of answers 2015-2017, but that went to 62% in 2018 & 38% in 2019.
🤖2022: out of a sample of 529 MTurk workers, only 14 were human

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@JuliaILopez Thank you!

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I found out Thanksgiving day I was granted tenure at Mount Holyoke College. My mom sent me this pic the next day— apparently I’ve been at it for a while! So grateful and excited to move on to this next stage of my career.

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@AmandaKMontoya You’re so kind thank you Amanda!!

[John Tawa @saitawa]

Please check out our newest findings from this VR study showing how visual attention and pupil dilation patterns can predict police officers’ incorrect decisions to use lethal force against Black suspects.

https://t.co/1tv4jS3rKY

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30 day nerdle 🤓

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Wordle 209 5/6 😳⁦@muxerazul⁩

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@ProfessorBreen Thank you Mara!

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This study used virtual reality with embedded eye tracking to show how police officers' visual fixation on Black suspects can lead to wrongful and deadly decisions to use lethal force. Special thanks to all my awesome collaborators.

https://t.co/Y2R8QZxSbi

[John Tawa @saitawa]

Here’s a free online calculator we made for applying the Response Entropy Index to your datasets https://t.co/dv5zjARUZw. Try it out!

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The Response Entropy Index is a new method for detecting careless responses in datasets while avoiding conflating “careless” response patterns with culturally diverse response patterns. https://t.co/uuIx4tzeYv

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My new paper describing a method for three-dimensionalizing the measurement of stereotyping and why it is a more powerful predictor of prejudice than 2D models #Psychology #STEREOTYPE #racism #socialpsych

https://t.co/qXn23CXVXX

[John Tawa @saitawa]

“My group deserves the lion’s share of resources....” Where do these beliefs come from and how do they impact group relations? #psychology #socialpsychology https://t.co/C0Nps2njvz

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I hate to be a downer but tomorrow there is still going to be racism and coronavirus #HappyNewYear

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Just taught my last class. Going to have a coffee ☕️ and then go on sabbatical.

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A recent talk I gave for the New Jersey Institute of Technology about the use of VR to study racial bias in police use of force. Thank you for the opportunity @DrJulieAncis https://t.co/kt4bBoX3gE #VirtualReality #virtuallearning #racism #PoliceViolence

[Julie Ancis @DrJulieAncis]

Next up @NJIT #Cyberpsychology Seminar Series. VIRTUALLY IMMERSIVE REALITY FOR
THE STUDY OF RACIAL BIAS IN POLICE USE OF FORCE
Dr. John Tawa
Thursday, October 15, 2020
9:00- 10:00 AM EDT
Register:https://t.co/zH6AQ8iTDj
#VirtualReality #racism #bias@CSLANJIT @HumanitiesNJIT

[Julie Ancis @DrJulieAncis]

Today!! 9am! Register and tune in.