Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Jesse
Hoey
and
colleagues
won
two
awards
for
their
paper,
“Modeling
dynamic
identities
and
uncertainty
in
social
interactions:
Bayesian
affect
control
theory.”
Published
in
American
Sociological
Review,
the
paper
received
the
2017
Outstanding
Publication
Award
from
the
American
Sociological
Association’s
section
on
mathematical
sociology
as
well
as
the
Outstanding
Recent
Contribution
in
Social
Psychology
Paper
Award
from
the
society’s
social
psychology
section.
The
authors
proposed
a
generalization
of
affect
control
theory
—
how
people
maintain
meaning
through
their
actions
and
interpretation
of
events
—
using
Bayesian
probability
theory.
Using
a
series
of
mathematical
computer
simulations,
they
illustrated
how
this
generalization
resolves
several
issues
within
sociology
and
social
psychology
by
balancing
cultural
consensus
with
individual
deviations
from
shared
meanings,
balancing
meaning
verification
with
the
learning
processes
reflective
of
change,
and
accounting
for
noise
in
communicating
identity.
[CS
News]