Recent Talks (2020-2024)

Recent:
August 2024 - How LLMs are Changing Therapy. APA Convention (Seattle, Washington)

May 2024 - Large Language Models for Mental and Behavioral Health Interventions. Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (Chicago, Illinois)

May 2024 - Measuring and Improving Mental Health Through Social Media and LLMs. Silverman Research Conference (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

February 2024 - Digital Text and LLMs to Understand and Improve Individual and Community Mental Health - SPIRIT Speaker Series (New York, NY)

February 2024 - Shaping the Large Language Models (LLM) Transformation of Society Requires the Social Sciences - Social Perception Action and Cognition Lab Guest Lecture (New York, NY)

Dec 2023 - Panel on How Generative AI Influences Health Communication and Research. PRISM Health Symposium (San Francisco, CA).

Nov 2023 - Beyond Engineering: Understanding the LLM Transformation of Society Requires the Social Sciences. Psychology of Technology Conference (Los Angeles, CA).

September 2023 - Panel on AI in Mental Health. Trust & Safety Conference (Stanford, CA).

March 2023 - Measuring Mental and Physical Health Using Social Media and Digital Text. Berkeley University, CA.

December 2022 - Methodological, Philosophical and Ethical Issues Around Well-Being Measurement Through Big Data. National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

July 2022 - The State of the Art in the Measurement of Populations from Social Media. Regional Cultural Differences Conference (Barcelona, Spain).

February 2022 - Oh no, we Built a Sad Robot! Building Artificial Intelligence equipped with Personality or Depression. Psychology of Media and Technology, SPSP pre-conference (San Francisco, CA).

November 2021 - 5th WHO infodemic management conference

April 2021 - ASU Machine learning day

June 2020 - Bay Area Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (BAY-SICSS)

April 2020 - Open Data Science Conference East - Using Large Social Data for COVID-19. Talk slides are here.

April 2020 - ASU Machine learning day

April 2020 - Symposium on COVID and A.I. - Institute for Human Centered A.I., Stanford - Using Twitter to Understand the Impact of COVID-19. Talk is here.

August 2020 - The psychological toll of COVID-19. APA Keynote (Online).

Podcasts/Radio

What Makes a Country Happy? (Podcast)
In episode one of this two-part series on the Guardian podcast Science Weekly, our PI, Johannes Eichstaedt, explains why the Nordic countries often rank highly in the annual World Happiness Report and what we can learn if we look beyond them.

How AI Could Transform Mental Health Care (Podcast)
Our postdoc Betsy Stade joins KQUED to discuss the future applications and challenges with integrating AI and psychotherapy.

What NLP Tells Us About COVID-19 and Mental Health (Podcast)
This week in ML. We discuss some of the major patterns in the data that emerged over the first few months of lockdown, including mental health, social norms, and political patterns.

Facebook Language Predicts Depression
in Medical Records
(PNAS)

The Guardian
The computer will see you now: is your therapy session about to be automated?

The New York Times
’Screen Time’ Is Over

WIRED
YOUR FACEBOOK POSTS CAN REVEAL IF YOU'RE DEPRESSED

The Independent
AI helps diagnose depression three months earlier than health services by analysing Facebook posts

Der Spiegel
Facebook-Postings können auf Depressionen hinweisen

Coverage in 50+ outlets and article stats are here (Altmetric).

Press Release:
University of Pennsylvania

Psychological Language on Twitter Predicts County-Level Heart Disease Mortality (Psychological Science)

The New Yorker
What Your Tweets Say About You

Washington Post
Tweets can better predict heart disease rates than income, smoking and diabetes, study finds

New York Magazine
Can Angry Tweets Predict Heart-Disease Rates?

The Onion
Study Links Negative Tweets To More Heart Disease

Coverage in 40+ outlets and article stats are here (Altmetric).

Press Releases:
University of Pennsylvania 
Association for Psychological Science
University of Melbourne

Women are Warmer but No Less Assertive
than Men: Gender and Language on Facebook
(PloS ONE)

The New York Times
Women From Venus, Men Still From Mars on Facebook, Study Finds

Automatic Personality Assessment Through
Social Media Language
(Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)

New York Magazine
Here Are the Things Introverts Say on Facebook

Neuroskeptic
How Your Facebook Updates Reveal Your Personality

Characterizing Geographic Variation in
Well-Being using Tweets
(ICWSM)

The Atlantic Blog
Twitter Can Tell Whether Your Community Is Happy or Not

Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language
of Social Media: The Open Vocabulary Approach
(PloS ONE)

Wired
Study: status update language used to predict Facebook users' age, gender, personality

Slate
Scientists Used Facebook For the Largest Ever Study of Language and Personality

MIT Technology Review 
How Your Facebook Profile Reveals More About Your Personality Than You Know

USA Today 
What your Facebook status says about you

New York Times Blog 
Your Personality Type, Revealed by the Internet

Psychologie Heute
Business Insider 
Daily Mail 
MIT Technology Review 
USA Today 
(terrible)

Press Releases: 
University of Pennsylvania