Talks

  • Media portrayals of mortality risks ∥ Using large language models for large-scale qualitative analysis

    New(s) Knowledge: From Research to Intelligence · MIT · October 2025

  • Quantifying the prevalence of overreaching causal language in the social sciences

    SCIFY, DARPA Research Group · Philadelphia, PA · September 2025

  • Quantifying the prevalence of overreaching causal language in the social sciences

    Political Networks and Computational Social Science (PolNETs) · Harvard University · August 2025

  • Quantifying the prevalence of overreaching causal language in the social sciences

    International Conference on Computational Social Science · Norrköping, Sweden · July 2025

  • Media bias in portrayals of Mortality Risk

    International Conference on Computational Social Science · Norrköping, Sweden · July 2025

  • On collaborating with Adversaries: Lessons from those who have tried it

    Philosophy of Science Association Conference · New Orleans, LA · November 2024

  • The Political Impact of Virtue Signaling

    FIRE Faculty Conference · Boston, MA · October 2024

  • Narrative License in the Social Sciences

    International Conference on Computational Social Science · Philadelphia, PA · July 2024

  • Narrative License in the Social Sciences: An Exploration with GPT-4.0

    AIMOS Conference · QUT, Brisbane, Australia · November 2023

  • Social learning can mitigate the influence of unhelpful anchors in an estimation task

    Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality · Max Planck Institute, Berlin · June 2023

  • Temporal measures of societal optimism reveal inversion of sentiment toward the near and distant future

    Perception, Evolution and Behavior Lab · Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK · May 2021

  • Determinants of mask wearing: Attitudes, intentions, and behaviors

    Hirt Lab · Indiana University, Bloomington, IN · March 2021

  • Shifts in future orientation: COVID-19 mortality rates, political affiliation, and a decline in consideration of future consequences

    Allen, Nettle, & Pepper Labs · Newcastle, UK · March 2021

  • COVID-Sociality: Community mask wearing and COVID prevalence

    Todd-Goldstone Lab · Indiana University, Bloomington, IN · October 2020

  • Community mask wearing and COVID prevalence

    COVID-Sociality Group · Online · August 2020

  • Thoughts on tomorrow: An exploration of future thinking in humans

    Honors Thesis Defense · Virtual · April 2020

  • Measuring psychological distance with Twitter data

    IUJUR Research Slam · Virtual · March 2020

  • Thoughts on tomorrow: How considering the future relates to present activity

    IU Undergraduate Research Conference · Bloomington, IN · November 2019

  • Considerations of Future Consequences, Procrastination, and Psychological Distance

    HON-H241 Thinking about Tomorrow (Guest Lecture) · Indiana University · November 2019

  • Skilled technical workers / Innovation with OSS

    Data Science for Public Good Symposium · UVA, Arlington, VA · August 2019

  • Future Goals & Present Performance

    Hutton Honors College · Indiana University · January 2019

  • Meat O'Vision: The effects of hunger on perception

    Midwest Undergraduate Cognitive Science Conference · Indiana University, Bloomington, IN · April 2018

  • Keynote Address

    American Legion National Americanism Conference · Indianapolis, IN · October 2017

  • Address on Education Experience

    National Children and Youth Education Conference · Indianapolis, IN · September 2017