Progress and challenges in the analysis of big data in social media of adolescentsAbstract. Social media are ubiquitous today, and adolescents use them to express their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. New ...
Routine Data in Health Services Research: an Underused ResourceAbstract. Today, a huge amount of data is created when medical care is provided, either in a hospital setting or in ambulatory care. Even if those data are not collected with the purpose to ...
Big Data in Radicalization Research. A Systematic ReviewAbstract. Research into extremist radicalisation has been given a new momentum by digital traces of behaviour, such as social media posts or publicly accessible media. Against ...
Abstract. In the last few years, the study of social phenomena has hosted a renewal of interest in Computational Social Science (CSS). While this field is not new – Axelrod’s first computational work on the evolution of cooperation goes ...
In the present study we link self-report-data on personality to behavior recorded on the mobile phone. This new approach from Psychoinformatics collects data from humans in everyday life. It demonstrates the fruitful collaboration between psychology and ...
Abstract. Novel technological advances allow distributed and automatic measurement of human behavior. While these technologies provide exciting new research opportunities, they also provide challenges: datasets collected using new ...
Abstract. This article reviews computational social science methods and their relation to conventional methodology and statistics. Computational social science has three important features. Firstly, it often involves big data; data sets so ...
Abstract. Crowdfunding enables fundraising of various ventures by collecting money from several donors. We argue that the inclusion of prosocial language contributes to success in this new domain of resource acquisition. In Study 1, we ...
Abstract. Recent technological advances have made it possible to study human behavior by linking novel types of data to more traditional types of psychological data, for example, linking psychological questionnaire data with genetic risk ...
Abstract. The increasing usage of new technologies implies changes for personality research. First, human behavior becomes measurable by digital data, and second, digital manifestations to some extent replace conventional behavior in the analog world. ...
Abstract. When people use the Internet, they leave traces of their activities: blog posts, comments, articles, social media posts, etc. These traces represent behavior that psychologists can analyze. A method that makes downloading ...
Abstract: Psychological scientists increasingly study web data, such as user ratings or social media postings. However, whether research relying on such web data leads to the same conclusions as research based on traditional data is ...