Jackson Trager

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 tinylink.net/4bc6P Read all about it below 👇🏿

🚨 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

New paper by @MohammadAtari90 and @Jackson_Trager

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

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.”

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 arxiv.org/abs/2502.11266

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 usnews.com/opinion/articl…

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: ow.ly/7aof50SFol0

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

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

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