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Will Hobbs is the Lois and Mel Tukman Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University's College of Human Ecology. His research focuses on the intersection of politics and health, particularly examining how government policies influence social dynamics and how individuals adapt to sudden life changes. Methodologically, he specializes in causal inference, representative sampling, and machine learning with limited data.
Research Interests:
- Policy feedback mechanisms and public opinion
- Social network recovery after loss
- Online censorship dynamics in authoritarian regimes
- Algorithmic bias in text analysis
- Foreign election interference strategies
Teaching includes undergraduate courses like Data Science for Social Scientists (HD/Psych 2930/2940) and graduate-level Text and Networks in Social Science Research (HD/Soc/Info 6610). His lab, the Hobbs Data Science Lab, engages undergraduates in projects analyzing social media and open-ended survey data, requiring R/Python proficiency for course credit.
Lab opportunities emphasize politics and health topics, with current focuses on fringe social media hate speech and child-related discourse polarization. Students are encouraged to join via email.
