4 papers
Predicting consumer-technology ownership without a diffusion history
Irina Vartanova, Niels Selling, Jennifer Viberg Johansson +1
We test whether the perceived attributes of a consumer technology predict how widely it is owned. In a 2022 Prolific survey of US adults (n = 678), respondents rated 65 consumer te…
Technological Excellence Requires Human and Social Context
Karl Palmås, Mats Benner, Monica Billger +18
Breakthrough technologies increasingly shape social institutions, economic systems, and political futures. Yet models of research excellence associated with such technologies often…
What Makes AI Applications Acceptable or Unacceptable? A Predictive Moral Framework
Kimmo Eriksson, Simon Karlsson, Irina Vartanova +1
As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms society, developers and policymakers struggle to anticipate which applications will face public moral resistance. We propose that thes…
AI Models Exceed Individual Human Accuracy in Predicting Everyday Social Norms
Pontus Strimling, Simon Karlsson, Irina Vartanova +1
A fundamental question in cognitive science concerns how social norms are acquired and represented. While humans typically learn norms through embodied social experience, we invest…