WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar :
“Methods in the science of subjectivity” (January 15)
講演者 / Speaker
SACKUR, Jérôme （Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales）
日 時 / Date & Time
Wednesday, 15 January 2020, 13:00 – 14:00
会 場 / Venue
Room 407, 4F, Building 59, Nishiwaseda Campus, Waseda University
主 旨 / Outline
“Methods in the science of subjectivity”
If subjectivity is to be studied by scientific means, one needs to set up a series of specific methods. I will present the main challenges and solutions in this area. I shall focus on three aspects: a/ First, I will present the methods for metacognition. Metacognition, or cognition about cognition, emerged as a field in educational psychology in the 1990s, but is now a major topic in decision making and consciousness science. An impressive amount of work has been devoted to the question of confidence, that is the degree of uncertainty that one has with respect to one’s decisions. As a result, mathematical and psychophysical models of metacognition have been developed (the meta-d’ model of Maniscalco and Lau for instance) and a sound understanding of them is essential as they are the best example of what a formal approach to subjectivity should be. b/ However, metacognition in the form of confidence judgments does not exhaust in any way the domain of subjective reports. I will present other forms of quantitative subjective judgments (visibility reports and self-observation judgments notably), their aim and scope. c/ At last, I will discuss the use of verbal reports. Free verbal reports are as old as scientific psychology itself, but I shall argue that recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) and data science transforms the use of verbal reports and protocol analysis. The examination of the three main methodologies shall be based on published studies by my team and others’.
言 語 / Language
English
対 象 / Prospected Audience
Faculty and staff members of a university, grad students, undergraduates, the general public
主 催 / Organizer
WATANABE Katsumi Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University
申込み / Registration
Free of charge. Please come to the event venue directly.
