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Meet the research team
Our work spans social learning mechanisms, belief formation, collective intelligence, content-moderation fairness, and human–AI collaboration, with a recurring interest in the bidirectional dynamics between individual and collective behavior and in cross-cultural comparative designs.
Work from the lab and its collaborators has appeared in ACM/IEEE/AAAI/ACL venues including ASONAM, EMNLP, TOCHI, ICWSM, CSCW, WebConf, and BSN.
Alumni and Affiliated Researchers:
- Wu, M — M.A. '26 (Computational Social Science) - PhD student in Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- Lin, J — M.A. '25 (Social Science) - PhD student in Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis
Publications & Conference Proceedings:
- Chen, Z., Lin, J., Dambanemuya H.K., & Lawson, D. (Under Review). Demography and Source of Social Information Differentially Impact Gender Norm Misperception and Belief Revision Following Intervention. Evolutionary Human Sciences, Cambridge University Press.
- Lin, J., Chen, Z., & Dambanemuya, H.K. (2026). What Others Think: An Experimental Study on Gender Norm Perception. 10th International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioural Social Sciences (IMEBESS), Prague, Czechia
- Wu, M. (2025). An Experimental Study of Gender Customization and Stereotyping in Social Chatbots. 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Norrköping, Sweden
Students & collaborators
Students typically work one-on-one with the PI on a focused thesis or research project. If you’re an undergraduate or master’s student interested in research on collective behavior using experimental designs, the lab would be glad to hear from you. See Join the Lab for what to send and when.