Miriam Matthews
Biographic Data
| ID | 4394877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Matthews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Matthews |
| SIGNATURE | MATTHEWS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claremont Graduate University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Risk Factors for Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military: Findings from the 2014 Rand Military Workplace Study
This report describes analyses designed to identify service member and environmental characteristics that are associated with service members' risk of sexual assault or sexual harassment. These analyses draw on data from one of the largest surveys ever conducted on sexual assault and harassment experiences, the 2014 RAND Military Workplace Study.
Superspreaders of Malign and Subversive Information on Covid-19: Russian and Chinese Efforts Targeting the United States
Both Russia and China appear to have employed information manipulation during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic to serve their respective global agendas. This report, part of the Truth Decay initiative, is one in a series systematically describing the types of COVID-19-related malign and subversive information efforts with which Russia- and China-associated outlets appear to have targeted U.S. audiences in the first half of 2020.
Detecting Malign or Subversive Information Efforts over Social Media: Scalable Analytics for Early Warning
The authors examine scalable analytics to detect malign or subversive information efforts, using the 2018 World Cup as a case study. The report has operational relevance to the U.S. government. It may benefit both researchers interested in going beyond post hoc recognition of malign or subversive information campaigns to in-time detection and social media companies interested in preventing their platforms from being co-opted by malign actors.
Development and Pilot Test of the Rand Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism
The RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism uses checklists, worksheets, and templates to help program staff design an evaluation that is appropriate for their program type, resources, and expertise and offers guidance on analyzing the resulting data to inform improvements. This report is a companion to the toolkit and provides background on its development and testing.
The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences
Willingness to lay down one’s life for a group of non-kin, well documented historically and ethnographically, represents an evolutionary puzzle. Building on research in social psychology, we develop a mathematical model showing how conditioning cooperation on previous shared experience can allow individually costly pro-group behavior to evolve. The model generates a series of predictions that we then test empirically in a range of special sample …
Rand Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism
Evaluating efforts to prevent violent extremism can be challenging. The RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism uses checklists, worksheets, and templates to help program staff design an evaluation that is appropriate for their program type, resources, and expertise and offers guidance on analyzing the resulting data to inform improvements
The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model: Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It
Since its 2008 incursion into Georgia, there has been a remarkable evolution in Russia's approach to propaganda. The Russian propaganda model is high-volume and multichannel, and it disseminates messages without regard for the truth. It is also rapid, continuous, and repetitive, and it often lacks consistency. Effective solutions to the Russian model can be found in the same psychology literature that explains its surprising success
Human rights: The role of psychological sense of global community
Despite progress in addressing human rights, abuses and violations persist around the world. This research attempts to gain a better understanding of the psychological determinants that lead people to be concerned about and take action to promote human rights issues. In particular, it tests a model in which self-transcendence values predict attitudes and behaviors supportive of human rights, largely mediated by people’s feeling that they are part…
A dual process approach to understanding prejudice toward Americans in Lebanon: An extension to intergroup threat perceptions and emotions
Using a stratified random sampling procedure, we interviewed 200 residents of Beirut, Lebanon and surrounding areas in order to test predictions of a dual process model of prejudice. We examined the role of social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) in predicting prejudice toward Americans, mediating the relationships between personality dimensions and prejudice, and predicting intergroup emotions indirectly through …
Psychological Factors Associated with Support for Suicide Bombing in the Muslim Diaspora
A robust literature on ingroup versus outgroup conflict suggests that perceived discrimination may be an important factor in intergroup aggression. Yet, to date, no studies have tested the hypothesis that the perception of being the victim of anti‐Muslim discrimination might be associated with support for anti‐Western political violence. We undertook an analysis of two Pew Global Attitudes Surveys: (1) a 2006 data set surveying 1,627 adult Muslim…
Assimilation, multiculturalism, and colorblindness: Mediated and moderated relationships between social dominance orientation and prejudice
A Longitudinal Test of the Model of Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition
Using data from a longitudinal study of college students, this study assessed the relationships among the threat perceptions of realistic threat and intergroup anxiety, the ideological motives of system justification and social dominance orientation (SDO), and political conservatism. Those who had higher perceptions of realistic threat and intergroup anxiety at the end of their first year of college showed higher levels of system justification an…
Assimilation, multiculturalism, and colorblindness: Mediated and moderated relationships between social dominance orientation and prejudice
Psychological Factors Associated with Support for Suicide Bombing in the Muslim Diaspora
A robust literature on ingroup versus outgroup conflict suggests that perceived discrimination may be an important factor in intergroup aggression. Yet, to date, no studies have tested the hypothesis that the perception of being the victim of anti‐Muslim discrimination might be associated with support for anti‐Western political violence. We undertook an analysis of two Pew Global Attitudes Surveys: (1) a 2006 data set surveying 1,627 adult Muslim…
A Longitudinal Test of the Model of Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition
Using data from a longitudinal study of college students, this study assessed the relationships among the threat perceptions of realistic threat and intergroup anxiety, the ideological motives of system justification and social dominance orientation (SDO), and political conservatism. Those who had higher perceptions of realistic threat and intergroup anxiety at the end of their first year of college showed higher levels of system justification an…
Human rights: The role of psychological sense of global community
Despite progress in addressing human rights, abuses and violations persist around the world. This research attempts to gain a better understanding of the psychological determinants that lead people to be concerned about and take action to promote human rights issues. In particular, it tests a model in which self-transcendence values predict attitudes and behaviors supportive of human rights, largely mediated by people’s feeling that they are part…
A dual process approach to understanding prejudice toward Americans in Lebanon: An extension to intergroup threat perceptions and emotions
Using a stratified random sampling procedure, we interviewed 200 residents of Beirut, Lebanon and surrounding areas in order to test predictions of a dual process model of prejudice. We examined the role of social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) in predicting prejudice toward Americans, mediating the relationships between personality dimensions and prejudice, and predicting intergroup emotions indirectly through …
A Longitudinal Test of the Model of Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition
Using data from a longitudinal study of college students, this study assessed the relationships among the threat perceptions of realistic threat and intergroup anxiety, the ideological motives of system justification and social dominance orientation (SDO), and political conservatism. Those who had higher perceptions of realistic threat and intergroup anxiety at the end of their first year of college showed higher levels of system justification an…
Assimilation, multiculturalism, and colorblindness: Mediated and moderated relationships between social dominance orientation and prejudice
A dual process approach to understanding prejudice toward Americans in Lebanon: An extension to intergroup threat perceptions and emotions
Using a stratified random sampling procedure, we interviewed 200 residents of Beirut, Lebanon and surrounding areas in order to test predictions of a dual process model of prejudice. We examined the role of social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) in predicting prejudice toward Americans, mediating the relationships between personality dimensions and prejudice, and predicting intergroup emotions indirectly through …
Psychological Factors Associated with Support for Suicide Bombing in the Muslim Diaspora
A robust literature on ingroup versus outgroup conflict suggests that perceived discrimination may be an important factor in intergroup aggression. Yet, to date, no studies have tested the hypothesis that the perception of being the victim of anti‐Muslim discrimination might be associated with support for anti‐Western political violence. We undertook an analysis of two Pew Global Attitudes Surveys: (1) a 2006 data set surveying 1,627 adult Muslim…
Human rights: The role of psychological sense of global community
Despite progress in addressing human rights, abuses and violations persist around the world. This research attempts to gain a better understanding of the psychological determinants that lead people to be concerned about and take action to promote human rights issues. In particular, it tests a model in which self-transcendence values predict attitudes and behaviors supportive of human rights, largely mediated by people’s feeling that they are part…
The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model: Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It
Since its 2008 incursion into Georgia, there has been a remarkable evolution in Russia's approach to propaganda. The Russian propaganda model is high-volume and multichannel, and it disseminates messages without regard for the truth. It is also rapid, continuous, and repetitive, and it often lacks consistency. Effective solutions to the Russian model can be found in the same psychology literature that explains its surprising success
Development and Pilot Test of the Rand Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism
The RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism uses checklists, worksheets, and templates to help program staff design an evaluation that is appropriate for their program type, resources, and expertise and offers guidance on analyzing the resulting data to inform improvements. This report is a companion to the toolkit and provides background on its development and testing.
The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences
Willingness to lay down one’s life for a group of non-kin, well documented historically and ethnographically, represents an evolutionary puzzle. Building on research in social psychology, we develop a mathematical model showing how conditioning cooperation on previous shared experience can allow individually costly pro-group behavior to evolve. The model generates a series of predictions that we then test empirically in a range of special sample …
Rand Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism
Evaluating efforts to prevent violent extremism can be challenging. The RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism uses checklists, worksheets, and templates to help program staff design an evaluation that is appropriate for their program type, resources, and expertise and offers guidance on analyzing the resulting data to inform improvements
Detecting Malign or Subversive Information Efforts over Social Media: Scalable Analytics for Early Warning
The authors examine scalable analytics to detect malign or subversive information efforts, using the 2018 World Cup as a case study. The report has operational relevance to the U.S. government. It may benefit both researchers interested in going beyond post hoc recognition of malign or subversive information campaigns to in-time detection and social media companies interested in preventing their platforms from being co-opted by malign actors.
Risk Factors for Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military: Findings from the 2014 Rand Military Workplace Study
This report describes analyses designed to identify service member and environmental characteristics that are associated with service members' risk of sexual assault or sexual harassment. These analyses draw on data from one of the largest surveys ever conducted on sexual assault and harassment experiences, the 2014 RAND Military Workplace Study.
Superspreaders of Malign and Subversive Information on Covid-19: Russian and Chinese Efforts Targeting the United States
Both Russia and China appear to have employed information manipulation during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic to serve their respective global agendas. This report, part of the Truth Decay initiative, is one in a series systematically describing the types of COVID-19-related malign and subversive information efforts with which Russia- and China-associated outlets appear to have targeted U.S. audiences in the first half of 2020.
Political science (11 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (4 works)