15 papers
Archetypometrics of 'Friends'
Shun Zhang, Tabia Tanzin Prama, Christopher M. Danforth +1
Storytelling inherently revolves around characters. Using the television sitcom `Friends' as a case study, we investigate how well archetype vectors capture both individual charact…
Buffy versus Bella: An archetypometric analysis and comparison
Calla Glavin Beauregard, Julia Witte Zimmerman, Ashley M. A. Fehr +6
Fictional stories and characters embody and encode social norms, and their study is a powerful tool through which to understand culture and society. Vampire stories and folklore, i…
Narrative Structure in Tropes: A Computational Analysis of `Friends'
Shun Zhang, Tabia Tanzin Prama, Christopher M. Danforth +1
Tropes are recurring narrative devices in television and film. We carry out a computational analysis of tropes in the sitcom Friends, using human-curated trope annotations from TVT…
Gender Disparities in LLM-Based Intimate Partner Violence Detection
Tabia Tanzin Prama, Mikaela Irene Fudolig, Abigail M. Crocker +2
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a major public health concern, and large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for support and information-seeking in sensitive domains. W…
Global brain drain and gain in high-potential student mobility
Tabia Tanzin Pramaa, Christopher M. Danfortha, Peter Sheridan Dodds
The mobility of high-potential individuals, particularly graduates from elite academic institutions, serves as a critical driver of global innovation and economic development. Desp…
Us-vs-Them bias in Large Language Models
Tabia Tanzin Prama, Julia Witte Zimmerman, Christopher M. Danforth +1
This study investigates ``us versus them'' bias, as described by Social Identity Theory, in large language models (LLMs) under both default and persona-conditioned settings across…