Large Scale Projects
How Does Hate Lead to Harm? Exploration of the Role of Mentalization and Morality
TeamMario Mendez, MD, PhD, Alexander Sheppard
SummaryThis research builds upon the team’s previous project and aims to clarify the role of mentalization and morality in hate and potentially lead to interventions that can reduce the expression of this behavior.
Social Media and the Spread of Hate (SMASH): Examining Youth and College Student Exposure and Impact of Hate Speech Online
TeamDean Christina Christie, Dr. Anne Gilliland, Dr. Christine Ong, Dr. Dr. Wendy Slusser, Dr. Mark Hansen, Dr. Arif Amlani, Dr. Tyrone Howard, Mark Berkman, Dr. Sarah Krongard, Seul Lee, Zhaopeng Ding
SummaryNow entering its third year of ISH funding, the SMASH project aims to gain a meaningful and critical understanding of the experience of hate speech in social media on young people. In Year 2, SMASH will continue to expand its study across the UCLA campus and will create a corps of young people to serve as advisors to help interpret study results and guide future efforts.
Smaller Scale Projects
Breaking the Cycle: A Public Health Approach to Hate Prevention in Corrections
TeamLincoln Bohn, Dr. Howard Padwa, Madelyn Cooper
SummaryThis project aims to conduct a feasibility study to identify the barriers and facilitators of implementing hate prevention interventions in correctional settings in California.
Benefit or Backlash? Examining the effect of contentious claims of antisemitism
TeamEmily Ortiz; Dr. Salma Mousa, Josh Goetz, Connor Warshauer, Ananya Hariharan, Clayton Becker, Grant Baldwin
SummaryThis study examines how the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism impacts understandings of antisemitism.
Community Grounded Hate Speech Detection
TeamDr. Saadia Gabriel, Dr. Thomas Hartvigsen (UVA), Dr. Hamid Palangi (MSR), Ashima Suvarna (UCLA), Christina Chance (UCLA), Dr. Sophie Hao (NYU)
SummaryThis project aims to substantially improve racial equity of hate speech detection through community-driven data generation.
The Legal Regulation of A.I. Hate
TeamDr. Fanna Gamal
SummaryThis project examines the legal regulation of race-based hate in the information age, scrutinizing algorithms that purport to be “race-blind” but nevertheless include racial information by relying on so-called proxies for race to formulate their predictions.
Organized Hate: The Strategic Online Rhetoric of White Nationalist Leaders
TeamDr. Luwei Ying, Dr. Carly N. Wayne
SummaryThis study examines how White nationalists use masculinity messaging to mobilize online hate.
Using self-similarity from body motion to reduce outgroup biases
TeamDr. Akila Kadambi, Dr. Marco Iacoboni
SummaryThis project will test whether implicit biases can be reduced if actions of outgroup members reflect one’s own motion (i.e., self-motion similarity), and will assess the underlying neural mechanisms.
Fear, identity, and activism during COVID-19: Conceptualizing and supporting racialized Asian youths’ experiences of sinophobia, foreigner racialization, and anti-Asian hate in the US
TeamRyan Horio, Dr. Cindy Cruz Sangalang
SummaryThis research examines the impact of anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic on racialized Asian youth in the US and how policymakers and community based organizations can best support youth after experiencing anti-Asian hate.