Rebecca Dolgin

Comfort in Responding to Sensitive Topics: A Qualitative Look at the Live Video Survey Mode In September 2025, Public Opinion Quarterly published its first special issue devoted to qualitative research methodology — Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Marga…

"Comfort in Responding to Sensitive Topics: A Qualitative Look at the Live Video Survey Mode" at bit.ly/42ukPtH highlights the excellent article in the special issue of @poqjournal.bsky.social by Shlomit Okon, @rebdolgin.bsky.social, & Michael Schober

Preschoolers Selectively Attend to Speech That They Can Learn More From We introduce a novel method to test a classic idea in developmental science that children's attention to a stimulus is driven by how much they can learn from it. Preschoolers (4–6 years, M=4.6${\it M...

Preschoolers Selectively Attend to Speech That They Can Learn More From by ‪@ruthefoushee.bsky.social‬ and colleagues
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Participants’ Reported Discomfort with Live Video as a Mode for Answering a Sensitive Survey Question Abstract. This study uses qualitative thematic analysis to explore a dataset of open-ended textual responses from 369 online panelists explaining why they

New in Public Opinion Quarterly: Live video can change how people feel about answering sensitive questions—but not in the same way for everyone. Example: For some, seeing and being seen can make them MORE at ease, for others LESS at ease.

GenAI and misinformation in education: a systematic scoping review of opportunities and challenges - AI & SOCIETY Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has emerged as a transformative and disruptive force in education and society, with the potential to both create and correct misinformation. In education, mi...

🎓 Excited to share our review paper on Generative AI and Misinformation in Education! 🤖📚

#GenerativeAI #EdTech #AIInEducation #Misinformation #DigitalLiteracy #EducationResearch #AIEthics

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How to Read an "AI" Press Release — Sonja Drimmer Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest product will avail. Zuc...

here's a useful critical annotation of zuck's "superintelligence" memo sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

Affiliated departments at UNC are hiring an assistant professor position for the study of AI. Happy to connect folks w/ questions. I would say that there is an emphasis on the “socio-technical”.

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...

(Issued with all sincere sympathies about the job market.)

Another semester, another moment to thank that guy from Rice University who made that syllabus maker thing. I love you

wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out

Only a small % of people engage in toxic activity online, but they’re responsible for a disproportionate share of hostile or misleading content on nearly every platform

Because super-users are so active, they dominate our collective impression of the internet www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Yes, social media can completely distort our impressions. And, what may complicate things even more is a misalignment between what posters intend to communicate and what readers interpret: Here's a link to our research showing evidence of this mismatch:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/U4UGA...

Resistant Beliefs, Responsive Believers - Volume 122, Issue 4, April 2025 Beliefs can be resistant to evidence. Nonetheless, the orthodox view in epistemology analyzes beliefs as evidence-responsive attitudes. I address this tension by deploying analytical tools on capaciti...

In this finally out (!) paper, I argue no—and cognitive science backs this up. We can keep the orthodox rationalist view of belief *and* recognize the difficulties in changing minds. The key is thinking of belief as requiring a *capacity* (not a reliable disposition) to respond to evidence.

Psych Academic Job Market Slack Interest Form

(please share widely!) With the start of August quickly approaching, I wanted to announce that the usual slack for fellow people on the Psych Academic Job Market for the coming cycle has been activated. If you are interested, feel free to fill out this form to join!
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Misunderstanding stance in tweets How accurately do readers of tweets understand the stance that tweet authors intended to express? We solicited from six authors their intended stance in their May 2022 tweets about “Roe v. Wade” af...

Despite this potential for misunderstanding, authors were 90-100% confident they would be understood as intended.

Checkout the full paper here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/U4UGA...

Then we asked online participants to read the same posts and tell us the stance they thought authors had intended when they posted.

A shocking number of readers misinterpreted the author's intent—25% even thought the opposite at least once.

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📗New paper in @discourseprocesses.bsky.social📗

Do readers of social media interpret posts the way authors intended?

We asked authors what stance they intended to convey in a post they tweeted about Roe v. Wade.

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Thrilled to have our research included in this special issue!

Misunderstanding stance in tweets How accurately do readers of tweets understand the stance that tweet authors intended to express? We solicited from six authors their intended stance in their May 2022 tweets about “Roe v. Wade” af...

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Dolgin, R. S., Calbi, S. L., Huang, J. W., & Schober, M. F. (2025). Misunderstanding stance in tweets. doi.org/10.1080/0163...