Research

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Meet Our Summer Researchers

Our three summer researchers are hard at work on various projects. Learn more about the research they’re working on, the impacts it could have, and what our researchers like to do outside of CMAC! Kate Stockly is a PhD student…

November Team Meeting

November’s research meeting at CMAC was a “small but mighty” gathering! Allana, our undergraduate intern from BU, took the spotlight today to show her progress on developing a model for the factors contributing to suicide in rural areas, as part…

New Publication: A Generative Model of the Mutual Escalation of Anxiety Between Religious Groups

Research Associate LeRon Shults, Research Associate Ross Gore, Executive Director Wesley J. Wildman, Collaborating Specialist Christopher Lynch, Post-Doctoral Fellow Justin E. Lane, and Collaborating Specialist Monica Toft Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 21(4) October 2018 Abstract: We propose…

October Team Meeting

On Wednesday, October 3rd, National Mean Girls Day, CMACers from all across the city gathered in the office to share the progress and challenges with their research. Fortunately, both Kendra and Maggie were wearing pink. Connor and Dimitri Luzincourt, a…

September Team Meeting

Our first team meeting of the fall semester! First, introductions. Over the summer, Ali O’Hare was hired as our new Projects and Development Manager. Julia Dunlavey was hired as our new Administration and Communications Coordinator. Everyone gave some background about themselves and…

Summer Update

It’s been a record hot summer in Boston and a red hot summer at CMAC too, with lots of projects heating up and a constant stream of activity. Research Manager John Balch and Office Manager Maggie Boyd have focused on…

IACSR 2018

7th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion August 12 – 15, 2018 It’s been a busy week of CMACer presentations & participation. Here’s a full listing of all that we were up to at…

Network Analysis

This is an article in our new series exploring and explaining the concepts that underlie our research. Many of our projects integrate highly involved, deeply technical theories and methods, which can be hard to understand without proper training. These posts…