MTS is the department’s Mind, Technology, and Society speaker series. It is hosted by a different faculty member each semester. Founded by a generous gift from Professors Robert Glushko and Pamela Samuelson, MTS brings researchers and industry professionals from across the globe to present a variety of interdisciplinary work in cognitive science. See our UCMerced CogSci youtube channel for videos of past MTS talks!
CIS graduate students, faculty, and staff, and all who are interested are invited! Members of other departments at UC Merced as well as the general public are encouraged to attend. (Note: current CIS Ph.D. students are required to attend MTS each semester in residence, to fulfill their COGS 250 course requirement).
Prof. Vaisey's talk will be 3-4:30pm on Zoom (https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/85100356507).
Dr. Vaisey will present on "Advancing Theories and Methods for Understanding Cultural Change".
Description:
How does a society's distribution of beliefs, opinions, and values change over time? In this talk, I will argue that most change on most things (e.g., politics, gender, race) occurs via cohort replacement. After outlining the theoretical possibilities for change mechanisms, and reviewing existing evidence from cross-sectional and longitudinal studies, I will present a new method to set plausible bounds on population-level opinion change using panel datasets like the General Social Survey.
For more information or to sign up for email announcements, please contact the talk series organizer: cis-mts-lead@lists.ucmerced.edu.
