KATE M. JOHNSON Doctoral Candidate (July 2016) University of Southern California 651-434-1102 Department of Psychology / SGM 501 katejohn@usc.edu Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061 http://vimlab.wix.com/katemjohnson EDUCATION University of Southern California, 2012- present Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, expected 2017 Masters of Arts in Psychology, 2014 Advisor: Dr. Jesse Graham Masters Thesis: Identity is the lens through which moral values predict action University of Chicago, 2010-2011 Master of Arts in Social Sciences, 2011 Advisor: Dr. Richard Shweder Master s Thesis: Social group influences on moral conviction University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2006-2009 Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude), Honors Psychology, 2009 Advisor: Dr. Marti Hope Gonzales Honors Thesis: Moral politics: The link between family metaphor, morality, and political attitudes AWARDS AND RESEARCH FUNDING USC Psychology Department Student Travel Grant Award, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 USC Graduate Student Association Travel Grant Award, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 USC Psychology Department Summer Fellowship, 2013, 2014 USC College Graduate Merit Fellowship, 2012 University of Chicago Unendowed Scholarship, 2010 Selmer Birkelo Scholarship, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2008-2009 Mortensen Academic Scholarship, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2008-2009 PUBLICATIONS Garten, J., Boghrati, R., Hoover, J., Johnson, K. M., Dehghani, M. (in press). Morality between the lines: Detecting moral sentiment in text. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Organization.
Dehghani, M., Johnson, K. M., Boghrati, R. (in press). TACIT: An open-source text analysis, crawling and interpretation tool. Behavioral Research Methods. Hoover, J., Dehghani, M., Johnson, K. M., Iliev, R., & Graham, J. (in press). Into the wild: Big data analytics in moral psychology. In K. Gray & J. Graham (Eds.) The atlas of moral psychology: Mapping good and evil in the mind. New York: Guilford. Graham, J., Meindl, P., Beall, E., Johnson, K. M., & Zhang, L. (2016). Cultural differences in moral judgment and behavior, across and within societies. Current Opinion in Psychology, 8, 125-130. Meindl, P., Johnson, K. M., & Graham, J. (2016). The moral assumption effect: Moralization of behaviors drives negative trait attributions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(4), 553-540. Dehghani, M., Johnson, K. M., Sagi, E., Garten, J., Parmar, N. J., Vaisey, S., Iliev, R., & Graham, J. (2016). Purity homophily in social networks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(3), 366-375. Open Science Collaboration. (2015) Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251). Graham, J., Meindl, P., Koleva, S., Iyer, R., & Johnson, K. M. (2015). When values and behavior conflict: Moral pluralism and intrapersonal moral hypocrisy. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9(3), 158-170. Johnson, K. M., Iyer, R., Wojcik, S. P., Vaisey, S., Miles, A., Chu, V., & Graham, J. (2014). Ideology-specific patterns of moral disengagement predict intentions not to vote. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy,14(1), 61-77. doi: 10.1111/asap.12039 Stone, S. J., Johnson, K. M., Beall, E., Meindl, P., Smith, B. J., Graham, J. (2014). Political psychology. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 5(4), 373-385. Open Science Collaboration (2014). The Reproducibility Project: A model of large-scale collaboration for empirical research on reproducibility. In V. Stodden, F. Leisch, & R. Peng (Eds.), Implementing Reproducible Computational Research (A Volume in The R Series). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis. Open Science Collaboration (2012). An open, large-scale, collaborative effort to estimate the reproducibility of psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 652-655.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVISION OR REVIEW Johnson, K.M., Motyl, M., Ebersole, C. R., Haidt, J., Iyer, R. & Graham, J. (2016) Political Manichaeism predicts closed-mindedness and intergroup hostility for both conservatives and liberals. Manuscript under review at Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Johnson, K.M., Garten, J., Dehghani, M., & Graham, J. (2015). Natural language processing: A practical guide for psychologists. Manuscript under review at Social Psychology and Personality Science. Meindl, P., Johnson, K. M., Beall, E., & Graham, J. (2015). Altruism takes time. Manuscript submitted for publication. MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Boghrati, R., Hoover, J., Johnson, K. M., Garten, J., & Dehghani, M. Linguistic style accommodation in social media conversations. Johnson, K. M., Wood, W., Graham, J. Do moral judgments and moral behaviors align? A metaanalytic review. Garten. J., Johnson, K. M., Boghrati, R., & Dehghani, M. Dictionaries and Distributions: Combining Expert Knowledge and Large Scale Textual Data CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Johnson, K. M. & Dehghani, M. (2016, June). TACIT: An open-source text analysis, crawling and interpretation tool. Paper to be presented at the 15 th annual International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Bangkok, Thailand. Hoover, J., Johnson, K. M., Boghrati, R., & Dehghani, M. (2016, February). Prosociality in the Twitterverse: Moral sentiment predicts intent to donate. Paper to be presented at the 15 th annual International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Bangkok, Thailand. Johnson, K. M., Motyl, M., Ebersole, C., & Graham, J. (2016, February). Manicheism drives close-mindedness and intergroup hostility for conservatives and liberals. Paper presented at the 8 th annual University of Southern California Graduate Research Symposium, Los Angeles, CA. Hoover, J., Johnson, K. M., Boghrati, R., & Dehghani, M. (2016, February) Prosociality in the Twitterverse: Moral sentiment predicts intent to donate. Paper presented at the 8 th annual University of Southern California Graduate Research Symposium, Los Angeles, CA. Dehghani, M., Johnson, K. M., Boghrati, R. (2016, January) TACIT: Text Analysis, Crawling,
and Interpretation Tool. Poster presented at the 17 th annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA. Johnson, K.M., Motyl, M., & Graham, J. (2016, January). Us or them: Identity as a lens through which moral values motivate action. Poster presented at the 17 th annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA. Johnson, K.M., Motyl, M., & Graham, J. (2015, July). Measuring Manichaeism: Moral intuitions and extremism across the ideological divide. Paper presented at the 38 th annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, San Diego, CA. Johnson, K.M., & Graham, J. (2015, February). Identity as a lens through which moral values motivate action. Poster presented at the 16 th annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA. Johnson, K. M., & Graham, J. (2014, July). Identity is the lens through which moral values predict action. Paper presented at the first annual Attitudes and Social Influence Conference. Meindl, P., Johnson, K. M., Beall, E., Graham, J. (2014, February). Altruism takes time. Paper presented at the 15 th annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX. Johnson, K. M., Iyer, R., Wojcik, S. P., Vaisey, S., Miles, A., Chu, V., & Graham, J. (2014, February). Ideology-Specific Patterns of Moral Disengagement Predict Intentions Not to Vote. Poster presented at the 15 th annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX. INVITED TALKS Divided (and Righteous) We Stand: How Group Membership and Moral Values Lead to Conflict, and What we can do about it. Flathead Valley Community College Honors Symposium Lecture Series, March, 2016 Manichaeism: Outgroup Hostility Across the Ideological Divide. Social Psychology Brown Bag Series, University of Southern California, Department of Psychology, February 2016 Manichaeism Drives Close-mindedness and Intergroup Hostility for Conservatives and Liberals. USC Graduate Research Symposium, February 2016 Identity is the lens through which moral values predict action. Social Psychology Brown Bag Series, University of Southern California Department of Psychology, April 2014 TEACHING
University of Southern California Teaching Fellowships: Introduction to Social Psychology (Dr. Miranda Barone, Spring 2014) Science of Happiness (Dr. John Monterosso, Fall 2013, Fall 2014) Drugs, Mind and Society (Dr. John Monterosso, Spring 2015) Conservation Psychology (guest lecture on Morality & Environmentalism, Fall 2015) California State University- Los Angeles lecture: Introduction to Psychology (guest lecturer on Emotion, Stress, and Health, Winter 2014) USC Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2014 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Member of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2011-present Member of American Psychological Association, 2011-present Member of Association for Psychological Science, 2012-present Member of International Society of Political Psychology, 2014-present Member of Association of Language and Social Psychology, 2016-present Member of Cognitive Science Society, 2016-present SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSION Society for Personality and Social Psychology Summer Institute Student Coordinator, 2016-2017 Graduate Association for Students in Psychology Communications Officer, 2015-2016 Graduate Association for Students in Psychology Social Area Representative, 2014-2015 Social Psychology Prospective Student Visit Coordinator, Spring 2014, 2015 Reviewer: Research paper submission reviewer for the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015, 2016 European Journal of Social Psychology Ad hoc reviewer: Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Group Processes and Intergroup Relations PRESS COVERAGE
Twitter study finds purity, over all other moral values, best predicts social relationships. By Stephanie Kossman, Medical Daily, February 4 th, 2016 A uniter and a divider: Purity keeps us together -- and apart by University of Southern California, Science Daily, February, 2016 Good company by Kevin Lewis, National Affairs, January 10 th, 2016 It turns out by Kevin Lewis, National Affairs, March 7 th, 2014 "A TACIT Understanding" by Laura Paisley, Dornsife Connect, November 3 rd, 2015 RESEARCH INTERESTS Morality; Identity; Language; Methods; Construal; Ideology; Ethics; Cultural and Individual Differences in Values and Attitudes; Social Influence; Political Psychology; Big Data