How well can psychological science predict laughter?
Many scholars have written about humor, but how well can we actually predict joke appreciation?
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Machine Learning
My first Microsoft Office add-in
I regularly use Office Word; same goes for AI tools. Time for a user-friendly integration.
AI at the intersection of Fashion and Psychology
Recording from L’Institut Français de la Mode
Write a short blog post about…
Some self-reflection by something
Machine-generated hypotheses
Trying to automate my old job
Extending my teaching in machine learning
I uploaded the practice run for my first guest lecture at Princeton.
THEY ARE RISING UP! Minimizing (or maximizing) human error through reinforcement learning algorithms
AI systems are smart enough to beat us in games like chess and Go. Why not use it to detect human weaknesses elsewhere?
Supervised machine learning for social scientists
A super practical and comprehensive guide to machine learning for social science research
Computer vision and the psychology of clothing
Humans constantly judge each other based on clothing…and so can machines
Netlogo application: Chuck Norris vs the world
We used agent-based models to quantify the ranking reliability of Battle-Royale-style tournaments
R package: StatBreak
An R package allowing users to find the luckiest, conclusion-relevant data points in their data
The Semantic Scale Network
An R-based (shiny) application utilizing latent semantic analysis to combat scale proliferation in psychological research
ML workshops for economists and psychologists
2 workshops I gave on machine learning. Python for economists; R for psychologists.
Applications
My first Microsoft Office add-in
I regularly use Office Word; same goes for AI tools. Time for a user-friendly integration.
AI at the intersection of Fashion and Psychology
Recording from L’Institut Français de la Mode
Write a short blog post about…
Some self-reflection by something
Machine-generated hypotheses
Trying to automate my old job
Tools!
Building a bunch of analytical tools for a market research company
Netlogo application: Chuck Norris vs the world
We used agent-based models to quantify the ranking reliability of Battle-Royale-style tournaments
R package: StatBreak
An R package allowing users to find the luckiest, conclusion-relevant data points in their data
The Semantic Scale Network
An R-based (shiny) application utilizing latent semantic analysis to combat scale proliferation in psychological research
Research application: NY Times sentiment analyzer
A simple and useful application I built for Harvard’s CS50 course
Psychological Theory
Why do people laugh?
We published our work on the psychology of humor
Computer vision and the psychology of clothing
Humans constantly judge each other based on clothing…and so can machines
Ideological divisions and regional hostility on Twitter
We found correlations between regional ideological polarization and Twitter hostility
Emotion contagion and homophily on YouTube
A project in which we disentangle the effect of vlogger emotions and the overarching effects of vlogger personality on audience emotions
Distinguishing trust and gullibility through Twitter language
A project in which we compare language profiles for two closely related personality constructs: Trust and gullibility
NWO Research Talent Grant
Prof. Spears, Dr. Tausch, and I received this grant for 4 years of PhD research on radical group behavior
Master thesis: Explaining radical group behavior
My master thesis involving experimental research on radical collective behavior of political groups
Text Mining
Ideological divisions and regional hostility on Twitter
We found correlations between regional ideological polarization and Twitter hostility
Emotion contagion and homophily on YouTube
A project in which we disentangle the effect of vlogger emotions and the overarching effects of vlogger personality on audience emotions
Distinguishing trust and gullibility through Twitter language
A project in which we compare language profiles for two closely related personality constructs: Trust and gullibility
Research application: NY Times sentiment analyzer
A simple and useful application I built for Harvard’s CS50 course
Lab Studies
Why do people laugh?
We published our work on the psychology of humor
Distinguishing trust and gullibility through Twitter language
A project in which we compare language profiles for two closely related personality constructs: Trust and gullibility
NWO Research Talent Grant
Prof. Spears, Dr. Tausch, and I received this grant for 4 years of PhD research on radical group behavior
Master thesis: Explaining radical group behavior
My master thesis involving experimental research on radical collective behavior of political groups
teaching
Stats content on Instagram
From now on, my work is content
Stats content on Instagram
From now on, my work is content
New course - Intro to programming
All lectures, assignments, and exams for our new course are online
Combining academia and industry
My experience in harmonizing two part-time jobs
Teaching
Online course: Programming in R
Looking for the best materials to learn R coding? Look no further (because you found them (because they’re here))
Online course: Python for R users
If you’re proficient in R, but want to branch out to Python, you’ll see that the transition is quite easy :)
AI at the intersection of Fashion and Psychology
Recording from L’Institut Français de la Mode
Other
PhD defence & summary
Defending my dissertation
My PhD dissertation: Table of contents & full pdf
4 years of intense work and research in the field of behavioral data science are bundled in this book. Check out the chapter overview or read the full pdf.
Writing
I am writing a science-fantasy novel
An unlikely duo, ridiculous science, and desperate attemps to escape the afterlife.
My first Microsoft Office add-in
I regularly use Office Word; same goes for AI tools. Time for a user-friendly integration.
other
Combining academia and industry
My experience in harmonizing two part-time jobs
Fiction
My first short story ‘Wedding Crashers: Season 1’
A short text from a fiction-writing workshop
Psychological Science
How well can psychological science predict laughter?
Many scholars have written about humor, but how well can we actually predict joke appreciation?