Jun 2, 2015

Rene Weber, Professor at the Department of Communication and Director of UCSB's Medianeuroscience Lab (http://medianeuroscience.org), is the principal investigator (PI) and leader of a new project funded by the United States Army Research Laboratory: "Automated Analysis of Moral Narratives in Online Communication Sources: Cross-Cultural Differences and Prediction of Real-World Outcomes".

The funding amount is $500,000 for one year. Co-PIs are Scott Grafton and James Blascovitch from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. The grant will be administered by UCSB's Institute for Collaborative Biotechnology. The UCSB team will closely collaborate with a team of researchers at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies which received an additional $500,000 from the US Army Research Laboratory for this collaboration (PI at USC is Andrew Gordon).