Been an amazing ride. I thank everyone for the support over the past 5 years🙏 Graduated🤘

✍🏼🌟Come and work with us! Exciting new TT AP position at UC Davis. We look for a scholar researching interpersonal communication in computer mediated contexts (eg, AI, CMC, VR/AR, online forums). Salary range $101,000-$133,000. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF05935

✍🏼Another position at UC Davis! Assistant Professor of Psychology - Computational Cognitive (Neuro)Science. I’m an external committee member on this one! Next review date: Sunday, Oct 1, 2023 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF05981

Are generative AI good deception detectors? We find that across LLMs, prompts, and texts, AI are much more truth-biased than humans. This may modify how we think about the origins of the truth-bias and the utility of AI for detection. With jeff hancock: psyarxiv.com/hm54g/

Theory is prized in communication research, but does it always need to be? Tim Levine and I raise questions about the role of theory in the field (e.g., why it's important, what is a theoretical contribution etc.). In Human Communication Research special issue on theory: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hq…

Introducing new JoC publication: “Computationally modeling mood management theory: a drift-diffusion model of people’s preferential choice for valence and arousal in media”, by Xuanjun Gong , @richardhuskey , Allison Eden , Ezgi Ulusoy . Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/jq…

NEW: Generative AI is already taking white collar jobs An ingenious study by Xiang Hui Oren Reshef zhou Yu looked at what happened on a huge online freelancing platform after ChatGPT launched last year. The answer? Freelancers got fewer jobs, and earned much less

Preprint Alert🤖 Our latest review npj Journals shows that AI chatbots significantly reduce distress, especially in multimodal, generative AI chatbots & in clinical and elderly groups. Key to success? Quality human-AI interactions and engaging content: osf.io/preprints/psya…

It is a historic day for AI. The new text-to-video model by OpenAI Sora can generate videos indistinguishable from real ones. 7 examples:

We are excited to congratulate Dr. Yoo Jung (Erika) Oh, Dr. Hyesun Choung and Dr. Brooke H. Wolfe on the CSCA prestigious scholarship award: The Federation Prize! All three recipients will be recognized at CSCA's Hall of Fame and Awards Ceremony in Grand Rapids, MI in April 2024.

The deadline extended to June 7! Come and join our #ICA24 preconference on computational message science on June 19 at QUT💡Check out our fantastic speakers lineup of speakers, and register here: icahdq.org/event/computat…

Are you a prospective PhD student interested in the psychology of language, NLP, deception, or CMC? Let's meet at #ica24 to chat about grad school! The MSU Department of Communication is a wonderful community of scholars and humans. Ping me (here, via email, etc) if interested!

📢Is current “human-AI alignment” research clarified and comprehensive? 🤔 We systematically reviewed 400+ papers across HCI, NLP, and ML to develop a framework for 👫<>🤖"Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment", encompassing the dual paths of “Aligning AI to Human” and “Aligning Human

Congratulations to Maria Lapinski for being inducted as an ICA Fellow for the Class of 2024! The International Communication Association recognizes distinguished scholars for their contributions to the field of communication.

ATTENTION! The 2024 CLAS Institute classes are starting NEXT MONTH! The first class will be on Understanding Behavior Change in Public Health Communication. All classes are virtual and will be instructed by our very own department chair Dr. Monique Turner. Help spread the word!

Just combined OpenAI o1 and Cursor Composer to create an iOS app in under 10 mins! o1 mini kicks off the project (o1 was taking too long to think), then switch to o1 to finish off the details. And boom—full Weather app for iOS with animations, in under 10 🌤️ Video sped up!

Do you know what’s even more interesting than OpenAI’s o1 🍓? A podcast generated directly from the information provided by @openai by NotebookLLM from Google AI. So cool! Logan Kilpatrick

Woah, got to think about implementing AI deepfakes in experimental settings…!

Politically biased AI can influence people to adopt opinions and make decisions, regardless of individuals' partisanship, with those with low prior knowledge about AI being the most susceptible, finds Jillian Fisher @yejinchoinka Jennifer Pan Shangbin Feng et al arxiv.org/pdf/2410.06415

📣We are hiring AP in mediated interpersonal communication this year. Anything interpersonal in mediated contexts (AI, social media, XR, etc.) fit here 🫵🏻recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07289