Current Year Plans

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:

  1. Expand and elaborate on the literature review for a project on people’s response to contentious interpersonal interactions
  2. Help design a new lab experiment protocol to be fielded in 2021 or 2022
  3. 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:

  1. Expand and elaborate on the literature review for a project exploring differences in the speech patterns of liberals and conservatives
  2. Help design a new survey experiment to be fielded in 2021 or 2022
  3. Use text mining and machine learning techniques to analyze written text or spoken transcripts of text