Introduction to R
Description: This workshop aims to introduce basic tools and functions of R for reading, management and examining datasets. Attendees are assumed to have little to no experience with R
In a new article published in Frontiers in Psychology, CSDE Affiliate Jing Xu(Anthropology) and co-authors surveyed 303 parents and guardians from BaYaka and Bandongo communities in the Republic of the Congo, Scots in Tayside, United Kingdom, and Chinese Americans in the Greater Seattle Area to examine parental perspectives on children’s social learning. Across all four cultures, parents consistently reported that children should learn from adults through imitation and teaching, but from peers through collaboration. BaYaka and Bandongo parents more often said children should learn tasks, while Scottish and Chinese American parents focused on qualities and values. The findings reveal cross-cultural regularities in social learning mechanisms alongside systematic differences in content, underscoring the importance of cultural context in studying how, what, and from whom children learn.
This month, CSDE Affiliate Gabriella Levy (Political Science) received a Royalty Research Fund Award to help support data collection in Colombia for her in-progress book project titled. “Debates About War Crimes: The Promotion of Inflammatory & Reconciliatory Attitudes Toward Civilian Targeting.” In this book, Dr. Levy considers why regular people continue to support armed actors long after information emerges that such actors have engaged in wartime civilian targeting. Dr. Levy focuses on how armed group propaganda campaigns, transitional justice information campaigns, and other elite political messages affect public opinion about violence against civilians and its perpetrators. Congratulations Dr. Levy on receiving your award and continuing your important work!
Recently, CSDE Affiliate Karen T Chen (Urban Design and Planning and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences) received a Royalty Research Fund Award to help support a pilot project that examines how extreme heat, daily mobility, and urban environments interact to shape stress responses across Washington State. Drawing on large-scale geospatial and behavioral data, the study seeks to identify communities most vulnerable to heat-related stress and the contextual factors that may amplify or mitigate these effects. Findings will generate evidence to inform equitable, climate-responsive urban planning strategies as Washington prepares to add one million new homes by 2044 under Housing Bill 1110—helping ensure that future growth supports resilience and well-being. Congratulations Dr. Chen on receiving your award and starting this important work!