Sentences with phrase «of psychological data»

The release of psychological data to non-experts: Ethical and legal considerations, «Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 25.»

In the race to advance data - driven electioneering strategies pioneered by successive Obama campaigns, Cruz has turned to Cambridge Analytica for its unparalleled offering of psychological data based on a treasure trove of Facebook «likes», allowing it to match individuals» traits with existing voter datasets, such as who owned a gun.

Indeed, Whitehead's use of psychological data is so pervasive and significant for his metaphysics that Laszlo's portrayal of Whitehead as his type of realist is very misleading.

In the race to advance data - driven electioneering strategies pioneered by successive Obama campaigns, Cruz has turned to Cambridge Analytica for its unparalleled offering of psychological data based on a treasure trove of Facebook «likes», allowing it to match individuals» traits with existing voter datasets, such as who owned a gun.

Not exact matches

A report from the The Guardian claimed that the Cruz campaign was using psychological data on millions of Facebook users.

Data, gamification and other means of psychological manipulation can influence you to make healthy choices, work harder, spend money and more.

Psychologist and language analyst James Pennebaker, of the University of Texas at Austin, did an analysis of Tsarnaev's tweets and presented the data at the 2013 American Psychological Association conference in Honolulu on July 31.

That scandal involved how the data of 87 million Facebook users was scraped and used as a psychological weapon to target voters.

Getting all of that data can theoretically help computers build an even more accurate psychological portrait of a person — and then fit him or her into a psychological consumer category.

The report suggested the Republican candidate was using psychological data based on research spanning tens of millions of Facebook users in an attempt to gain an advantage over his political rivals — including Donald Trump.

Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is using psychological data based on research spanning tens of millions of Facebook users, harvested largely without their permission, to boost his surging White House run and gain an edge over Donald Trump and other Republican rivals, the Guardian can reveal.»

A little - known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey.

WASHINGTON — The political action committee founded by John R. Bolton, President Trump's incoming national security adviser, was one of the earliest customers of Cambridge Analytica, which it hired specifically to develop psychological profiles of voters with data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook profiles, according to former Cambridge employees and company documents.

The benefit of this kind of data is that it allows data companies like Cambridge Analytica to develop more sophisticated psychological profiles of internet users (more data points means more predictive power).

His data was collected dozens of times after 52 of his Facebook friends were directed to the psychological questionnaire, many by a site called Swagbucks.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

The NYT reports it has seen documents showing that a London - based employee of the big data firm — named as Alfredas Chmieliauskas — worked with the CA data scientists who were building its psychological profiling technology.

In the event, Chmieliauskas» suggestion to clone Kosinski's app led to CA's data licensing relationship with Kogan, whose own personality test app — thisisyourdigitallife — was built bespoke for its project and successfully used to harvest data on 50M + Facebook users so CA could, in turn, build psychological profiles on millions of American voters.

The data was acquired and processed by Cambridge University professor Aleksandr Kogan whose personality quiz app, running on Facebook's platform in 2014, was able to harvest personal data on tens of millions of users (a subset of which Kogan turned into psychological profiles for CA to use for targeting political messaging at US voters).

Here it states that the aim of the project is «to infer psychological profiles», using self - reported personality test data, political party preference and «moral value data».

In our research, we incorporated an ensemble of computational methods from machine learning, image processing, and other data - scientific disciplines to extract useful psychological indicators from photographic data.

The researchers who warned about abuses of Facebook data show how psychological profiling gets results.

But a growing body of psychological and financial theories called «behavioral finance» is showing that during uncertain times, it's more important than ever to rely on available data and put aside emotion - fueled investing.

For example, all sense faculties with their sense data were classified as dharmas of the physical realm and all psychological traits, such as greed, hatred, and delusion, were dharmas of the mental realm.

Others have insisted that their work is social - scientific in the strong sense of the term — that is, as work guided by the correlation of models and data, as are more purely sociological and social - psychological studies.

This immediate conscious awareness of personal becoming is the primary source of data for psychological inquiry.

A major deficiency in recognizing the spiritual component in the field of addictions has been the lack of clearly defined criteria, based on hard data, that measure up to social, psychological, and medical standards.

The social and psychological implications of this process require more years of data for thorough study and examination.

The «historical» task required a mutual interaction between the «general» history of religions and the historical studies of «specific» religions, while the «systematic» task aimed at disciplined generalizations and the structuring of data and depended on a collaboration of phenomenological, comparative, sociological, psychological, and other studies of religions.

Today, the question is posited in the context of inherited and acquired influences, and of social psychology, asking how free we are to make decisions, showing that we are free only within a maybe very small area of inherited genetic data and acquired social and psychological habits.

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign was known for its extensive use of Facebook in 2016 — both for its use of the social network's marketing tools and for its partnership with Cambridge Analytica, a firm controlled by major Trump donor Robert Mercer that specializes in «psychological» data mining from Facebook.

It's a sensational story containing allegations of sleaze, psychological manipulation and data misuse that has provoked an internationally furious response.

The explosion in the use of personal data and psychological profiling in campaigns accelerated in the wake of Republican Mitt Romney's 2012 loss to President Obama.

Cruz hired Cambridge Analytica to use psychological data based on its research of Facebook users pulled without permission, the Guardian reported.

He also played down the role of psychological profiling in the company's work, much of which, Mr. Tayler suggested, is still based on traditional data analytics and marketing.

Why, after British journalists exposed in 2015 that the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz targeted voters online using the resulting 40 million - plus psychological profiles — acquired by the firm Cambridge Analytica, backed by megadonor Robert Mercer — Facebook did not follow through on a pledge to ensure the data destroyed.

While at C.A., Wylie claims he was tasked with compiling psychological profiles of voters using Facebook data, claims that he told the New York Times and the London Observer.

The rise of Big Data offers many potential benefits for society and my colleagues and I have tried help establish ethical guidelines for the use of Big Data in behavioral science as well as help inoculate and empower people to resist mass psychological persuasion.

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Data from the sensors have also highlighted that even a single flight of stairs is a powerful psychological barrier: People who work on different floors of a building almost never talk to each other, even if doing so would mean a walk of less than a minute.

The new study, published online January 24 in Psychological Science, teased out the answer by examining 30 years of data on thousands of Americans, including psychological measures of mood and well - being, reports of job and relationship success, and objective measurPsychological Science, teased out the answer by examining 30 years of data on thousands of Americans, including psychological measures of mood and well - being, reports of job and relationship success, and objective measurpsychological measures of mood and well - being, reports of job and relationship success, and objective measures of health.

«Our data show that social mechanisms substantially affect clinical outcomes over long periods of time, and deserve research attention comparable to biological and psychological factors.

But according to Peter Vitaliano, a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Washington (UW), there never have been data actually showing caregiving causes psychological distress.

In addition to collecting scans of brain structure and function, the research teams at 21 study sites around the country will regularly gather a trove of other information from each youngster, from psychological, cognitive, and environmental data to biological specimens such as DNA.

These data are consistent with analyses of medical claims data from World Bank employees which found that the largest increase in claims among their business travelers was for psychological disorders related to stress.

This mimics the activity of astronauts on an actual Mars mission, who would likely be studying Martian geology, collecting psychological and physiological data, and keeping up with various engineering tasks.

Co-author Marina Bedny, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, says the findings here, taken together with earlier results, suggest the brain as a whole could be extremely adaptable, almost like a computer that — depending on data coming in — could reconfigure to handle almost limitless types of tasks.

Bartoshuk was surprised to find that subjects with a history of moderate to severe middle - ear infections were 62 percent more likely than the others to be obese, according to data presented at the American Psychological Association meeting in August.

Besides providing large slews of data, the researchers believed that people are more honest in personal writings than during formal psychological tests.

The study stands out among long - term cohort studies for its high retention rate — nearly 95 % of the original cohort has stayed with the study since it launched in 1972 — and the intimacy of the data - gathering process, which includes not just cognitive, psychological, and health assessments, but also interviews with cohort members» teachers, families, and friends and reviews of their financial and legal records.