Miriam Koschate-Reis
Associate Professor Computational Social Psychology, Interim Co-Director Institute for Data Science and AI (IDSAI)
Miriam's research combines computational social science techniques (ML, NLP) with experimental and survey methods to better understand dynamic aspects of our social self:
1) Social identity markers: Working with computer scientists at the University of Exeter, UCL and Imperial, she examines how the way we communicate - our linguistic style - provides clues to our identities in online texts. To this end, we have developed an Automatic Social Identity Assessment (ASIA).
2) Social identity development: Using computational social science methods, we are studying how people develop new identities (e.g., becoming a parent) and change a social identity (e.g., from addict to recovery identity) over time.
3) Intergroup Contact: Miriam's work examines social interactions between members of different groups (e.g. workgroups, human-robot interactions) and effects on cooperation and helping behaviour