In the 2021-2022 academic year, SNaPP Lab research assistants will be involved in a variety of research tasks on two main projects. For a broader overview of the research, please see the Active Research page.
CIPI Project: SNaPP Lab RAs on the lab experiments team will:
- Expand and elaborate on the literature review for a project on people’s response to contentious interpersonal interactions
- Help design a new lab experiment protocol to be fielded in 2021 or 2022
- Explore the possibility of further incorporating virtual reality into study protocols
“It’s Not What They Say but How They Say It” Project: SNaPP Lab RAs on the political rhetoric team will:
- Expand and elaborate on the literature review for a project exploring differences in the speech patterns of liberals and conservatives
- Help design a new survey experiment to be fielded in 2021 or 2022
- Use text mining and machine learning techniques to analyze written text or spoken transcripts of text