Cambridge Independent: Cambridge study highlights how social media turns values into negative traits
David Stillwell, Professor of Computational Social Science and Director of the Psychometrics Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School, speaks about the consequences of privileging hostile or negative content on social media. “Even words connected to politics that seem to represent…
Love and hate: how politics can distort the analysis of sentiment on Twitter
Words like justice and equality are so often used disparagingly on Twitter that it impacts the ability of social media tools to assess whether a tweet is being positive or negative about its subject, according to a recent study from…
BBC Sounds: Science unwrapped – interactive science, medicine and technology.
David Stillwell, Professor of Computational Social Science and Academic Director of the Psychometrics Centre at Cambridge University Judge Business School, talks to the Naked Scientists for their 30-minute deep-dive segment into personality testing. Josephine Andresen, Researcher at Psychometrics Centre, was…
How Minecraft can be used in assessment
Minecraft can be used as a psychometric assessment platform, and this holds potential to complement traditional testing and lower test anxiety, finds study co-authored by Professor David Stillwell of Cambridge Judge Business School. Professor David Stillwell Parents around the world…
2022 Cambridge Judge excellence in teaching awards
Seven members of the Cambridge Judge faculty are awarded teaching prizes for excellence across the Business School's various programmes. Professor Mauro Guillén Seven members of the Cambridge Judge Business School faculty were presented with Teaching Awards on 23 May for…
The Week: The arguments for and against swearing
A study co-authored by David Stillwell, Professor of Computational Social Science and Academic Director of the Psychometrics Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School, is mentioned in an article about swearing, after BBC was forced to issue a swift apology for…
Psychology Today: Are people who swear more honest?
A study co-authored by Dr David Stillwell, Reader in Computational Social Science at Cambridge Judge Business School, on how people who swear more are more honest, featured in the article. “We found a consistent positive relationship between profanity and honesty;…
While you watch the TV, the TV watches you
Four key principles for companies to use data targeting in a positive way. By Dr David Stillwell, University Lecturer in Big Data Analytics & Quantitative Social Science at Cambridge Judge Business School and Academic Director of the Psychometrics Centre Dr…
Publico: The scientist who exposed the power of Facebook
Dr David Stillwell, University Lecturer in Big Data Analytics & Quantitative Social Science at Cambridge Judge Business School, published an article in 2013 explaining how easy it is to guess someone’s personality just from a few Facebook likes. Recently David…
Live Mint: Opinion: How the internet could end up wrecking Indian democracy
Research co-authored by Dr David Stillwell, University Lecturer in Big Data Analytics & Quantitative Social Science at Cambridge Judge Business School, is featured in the article. The research says that Facebook “knows” us better than our family and friends. The…