More Like this

1. Learning to See People Like People: Predicting Social Impressions of Faces

   Song, A; Linjie, L; Atalla, C; Gottrell, G. (January 2017, Cognitive Science)
2. Cascadia: Subduction and People

   https://doi.org/10.2138/gselements.18.4.221  

   Kent, Adam J.R.; Dufek, Josef (August 2022, Elements)

   The well-studied Cascadia subduction zone has enriched our general understanding of global subduction zones. This Elements issue explores the interconnected set of processes that link geodynamics, tectonics, and magmatism at depth and the surface expressions of these processes, which shape the landscape and give rise to natural hazards in the Cascadia region. This issue also addresses the impact of subduction zone processes on human populations using cultural records, and reviews the state of knowledge of Cascadia while highlighting some key outstanding research questions. 

   more » « less
3. Co-designing for Environmental Engagement: Moving inside people outside and moving outside people outdoors

   Killen, Heather; Bonsignore, Elizabeth (July 2023, International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS))

   Slotta, Jim; Charles, Liz; Breuleux, Alain (Ed.)

   We developed, with youth, a framework categorizing how people interact with nature. Our framework, inside versus outside versus outdoors, was developed using assets-based co-design principles with a small group of young men. Artifact analysis from co-design sessions found that our group readily applied this framework to community park infrastructure, community and individual behaviors observed within parks, and to support conversations involving participants’ personal values and sociocultural contexts. 

   more » « less
4. Do People Prescribe (Over)Optimism?

   Miller, J. E. (January 2021, Psychological science)

   Brandt, M.; Bauer, P. (Ed.)

   Past work has suggested that people prescribe optimism—believing it is better to be optimistic, instead of accurate or pessimistic, about uncertain future events. Here, we identified and addressed an important ambiguity about whether those findings reflect an endorsement of biased beliefs—i.e., whether people prescribe likelihood estimates that reflect overoptimism. In three studies, participants (total N = 663 U.S. university students) read scenarios about protagonists facing uncertain events with a desired outcome. Results replicated prescriptions of optimism when using the same solicitations as in past work. However, we found quite different prescriptions when using alternative solicitations that asked about potential bias in likelihood estimations and that did not involve vague terms like “optimistic.” Participants generally prescribed being optimistic, feeling optimistic, and even thinking optimistically about the events, but they did not prescribe overestimating the likelihood of those events. 

   more » « less
5. Understanding How People Share Passwords

   Moh, Phoebe; Yang, Andrew; Malkin, Nathan; Mazurek, Michelle L (August 2024, USENIX)

   Many systems are built around the assumption that one ac- count corresponds to one user. Likewise, password creation and management is often studied in the context of single-user accounts. However, account and credential sharing is com- monplace, and password generation has not been thoroughly investigated in accounts shared among multiple users. We examine account sharing behaviors, as well as strategies and motivations for creating shared passwords, through a census- representative survey of U.S. users (n = 300). We found that password creation for shared accounts tends to be an individ- ual, rather than collaborative, process. While users tend to have broadly similar password creation strategies and goals for both their personal and shared accounts, they sometimes make security concessions in order to improve password us- ability and account accessibility in shared accounts. Password reuse is common among accounts collectively shared within a group, and almost a third of our participants either directly reuse or reuse a variant of a personal account password on a shared account. Based on our findings, we make recommen- dations for developers to facilitate safe sharing practices. 

   more » « less