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data:
  approximately_how_many_hours_a_week_would_the_research_assistant: 5-8
  are_you_currently_looking_for_students_: 'No'
  confirmation_1: '1'
  contact_email_fsu_email: ''
  contact_email_fsu_email2: ''
  contact_email_fsu_email_if_affiliated_: mdunietz@fsu.edu
  fsu_college: 'Social Sciences and Public Policy'
  fsu_department_if_applicable_: 'Political science'
  headshot_optional_: '27026'
  if_the_project_location_is_off_campus_does_the_student_need_to_p: 'No'
  mentoring_philosophy: |-
    I believe in giving mentees opportunities to shape their research experience in the ways that will best serve their academic and professional goals. This means we will explore together what interests and aspirations the mentee has, and what kinds of methods and skills the mentee would like to further develop and add to their repertoire. Tailoring the experience to the mentee's interests, aspirations, and talents makes the research experience more useful and rewarding to the mentee, and simultaneously improves the product of our joint efforts. 

    Throughout a collaboration, it is also important to me that mentees can see how their slice of the project contributes to the larger team research project and how their contribution expands our overall collective knowledge in the research area. I encourage mentees to ask questions often, raise challenges and concerns, contribute their point of view, and try out their own ideas. By fostering a culture of open dialogue, mutual respect, and brave exploration, both the mentor and mentee can benefit from diverse perspectives and innovative solutions.
  mentor_handbook_and_faqs: '1'
  name_of_other_faculty_collaborator_if_applicable_: 'Valeria Burdea'
  number_of_assistants_needed_faculty_postdoc_max_6_graduate_stude: '2'
  other_faculty_collaborator_s_preferred_pronouns: ''
  overall_research_project_description: |-
    When citizens discuss their views on public policy with one another, they may not always be forthcoming about what they really think. Their willingness to speak up sincerely can depend on whether they believe others will agree, and how they believe others will react (that is, will they be rewarded, punished, or neither?) At the same time, citizens tuning into the public conversation may try to "correct" for these distortions (e.g., do the speakers believe exactly what they said or are they just trying to say the right thing? Does someone who didn't participate have no opinion, or are they hiding an unpopular opinion?) Mistakes can happen on both sides, leading to falsely believing that people are much more divided than they truly are, or that people agree much more than they truly do.

    This project applies the tools of behavioral and experimental economics to investigate how social norms and social incentives influence what opinions people share, how other people interpret what they hear, and what we can do to help citizens learn about public opinion more accurately.  The research assistant(s) will join an ongoing project in which ordinary citizens from around the US discuss public policy proposals and try to learn where others stand. In particular, we will explore the costs and benefits of encouraging highly personal styles of communication and more impersonal language, and how this affects perceptions of extremity and polarization. 
  please_add_any_additional_information_here: ''
  please_provide_a_link_to_your_publications_a_video_clip_or_a_web: ''
  please_select_the_choice_that_most_accurately_describes_your_exp: 'Partially Remote'
  please_select_the_location_of_your_project_: 'On FSU Main Campus'
  position_availability_for_student_research: 'Flexible schedule'
  position_title: 'Graduate Student'
  primary_research_mentor_name: 'Marli Dunietz'
  project_keywords: 'behavioral economics, political discussion, language, communication, text analysis'
  relevant_student_major_s_: 'Open to all majors, but economics, political science, policy, communication, linguistics, or computer science students may be particularly interested'
  research_mentor_preferred_pronoun2: ''
  research_mentor_pronouns: ''
  research_mentor_supervisor_if_different_from_above_: ''
  research_tasks_for_student_research_assistant_s_: 'The research assistant(s) will assist in compiling a literature review and analyzing data from group discussion experiments (text and/or quantitative). The data analysis portion of the research will involve reading the written communication between study participants, noting patterns, and coding the text data as quantitative data that will then be analyzed using statistical methods. Given interest and motivation, the research assistant(s) may also receive guidance and feedback to design and run an original experiment or analysis to answer a new question that arises in the course of research.'
  roundtable_times_and_zoom_links: |+
    Weds, Sept 6 at 2pm
    Friday, Sept 8 at 2pm
    https://fsu.zoom.us/j/99868025318

    To download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system:
    https://fsu.zoom.us/meeting/tJ0lceGorD4pG9x_NRYChGxMJhrK_LdKUKBQ/ics?icsToken=98tyKuChpj0iGtaQsxiPRox5Go_oWfTzpiVejfpFozHXOgNbRRvbHOpQGY1TFPPl

  skills_that_research_assistants_may_need_: |-
    Required: 
    - native/fluent English language
    - data entry skills
    - curiosity
    - courage to ask questions and make mistakes

    Recommended: 
    - familiarity with social science research methods

    Ideal but not necessary:
    - human subjects research ethics training (CITI certification)
    - familiarity with coding in R and/or Python
    - familiarity with text-as-data/natural language processing (NLP) methods
  title_of_the_project: 'Behavioral economics of political discussion'
  update_url: 'https://cre.fsu.edu/urop-research-mentor-project-submission-portal?element_parents=elements/research_mentor_information/headshot_optional_&ajax_form=1&_wrapper_format=drupal_ajax&token=IzL0Gi7UUxGMKF1uZg4X8WrFY8H3cQppQmC1KyRWoKA'
  urop_performance_evaluation: '1'
  urop_poster_presentation: '1'
  when_potential_research_assistants_are_reaching_out_via_email_2: ''
  when_potential_research_assistants_are_reaching_out_via_email_wh: ''
  when_students_are_reaching_out_via_email_what_is_your_preferreda: ''
  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_roundt: ''
  year: '2023'