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Martin
Johnson (UC-Riverside Department of Political Science, Survey
Research Center) investigates linkages between citizens and government
officials, the policy relevance of individual and collective opinion,
and how social environments and other sources of information shape
public opinion. Much of this research involves the relationship between
individuals and their environments, placing political actors in context.
Johnson has also applied cognitive methods, including response latency
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Curt
Burgess (UC-Riverside Department of Psychology; Psycholinguistics
and Computational Cognition Lab) has developed a tool for the study
of the meanings that apply to words and concepts, called the Hyperspace
Analog to Language memory model, or HAL. This computational approach
analyzes language samples (in the form of text) and learns relationships
among concepts presumably much like a human language user. Burgess
has used HAL to study a variety of research questions in cognitive
psychology: proper name semantics, ambiguity in communication, brain
function and memory, word recognition, language comprehension, and
dolphin communication. The importance of HAL to this initiative
is that it is an approach that learns meaning via a model of memory
and offers a theory-driven definition to how context forms meaning.
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Shaun Bowler (UC-Riverside
Department of Political Science) sudies representation, comparative
electoral systems, voting behavior, and political marketing. Much
of his work examines the relationship between institutional arrangements
and voter choice in a variety of settings, including direct democracy. |
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Graduate Students |
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Chad Murphy (UC-Riverside
Department of Political Science) investigates political persuasion
and rhetoric. He has studied the presentation of arguments in initiative
campaigns, inclusive language in presidential addresses, and the framing
of social programs in the American states. |
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