I am a doctoral researcher at David Garcia's Computational Social Science Lab at the Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science, University of Technology Graz. During the academic period 2023/24, I will be a visiting fellow at the Digital Emotions Lab at Harvard University led by Amit Goldenberg.
I started off my academic career with a bachelor degree in business psychology at the University of Lüneburg. Before fully committing to academia, I spent some time working as an advertising strategist in Hamburg for clients such as NIVEA, SEAT and E.ON. While obtaining my master degree in psychology at the University of Graz, I developed great interest in computer science. I am convinced that bringing new methodologies to the field will generate knowledge that we weren't able to access before. Consequently, I enrolled in the University of Technology Graz to gain solid knowledge in programming, machine learning and data science.
My research interests lie in emotion regulation, as well as hate and counter speech online (check out my current projects below). I believe in transparent and reproducible science, good storytelling, interdisciplinarity and the advancement of science through new methods of measurement.
We introduce a new method - the Construct Mining Pipeline - to infer the structure of psychological constructs from tailor-made text data and demonstarte its applicability on an example from emotion regulation.
While our understanding of hate speech in online discussions has grown significantly over the past few years, counter speech is still poorly understood. We try to change that.
I designed a two day introductory workshop for machine learning from psychologist for psychologists or other social science researchers. It includes basic vocabulary and machine learning algorithms, neural networks and NLP, as well as the data science pipeline and programming exercises. The current version is in German, but English is possible as well. Please feel free to contact me, if you are interested.
21 Jul, 2023. Improving discourse quality in social media networks: A large-scale, longitudinal study of influencing speech characteristics, International Conference for Computational Social Science, Copenhagen, Austria.
14 Jul, 2023. Improving discourse quality in social media networks: A large-scale, longitudinal study of influencing speech characteristics, International Conference on Network Science, Vienna, Austria.
26 Aug, 2022. Breaking the Wall of Emotional Well-Being, European Forum Alpbach 2022, Alpbach, Austria.
20 May, 2022. Breaking the Wall of Emotional Well-Being, Falling Walls Lab Austria 2022, Vienna, Austria.
10-11 June, 2022. Deriving Emotion Regulation Startegy Classes Using a Computational Grounded Theory Approach, 8th Conference of the Consortium of European Research on Emotion, Granada, Spain.
Lasser, J., Herderich, A., Garland, J., Aroyehun, S.T., Garcia, D., & Galesic, M. (2023). Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00357
Herderich, A., Freudenthaler, H. H., & Garcia, D. (2023). A Computational Method to Reveal Psychological Constructs from Text Data. https://psyarxiv.com/s64tm
If you want to learn more about all the great people in my research group, visit our group leader's landing page.
Alina Herderich
University of Technology Graz
Institute of Interactive Sytsems and Data Science
Sandgasse 36/III
8010 Graz AUSTRIA