Jason Jeffrey Jones

Stony Brook University

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Institute for Advanced Computational Science
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I study two things:
🤔🤖Public perception of artificial intelligence.
💬🆔Ipseology: The language choices individuals make when describing themselves.

NEW! In 2025 I am living data.
NEW! My book Ipseology - A New Science of the Self is now available for purchase.

Research Group

• Jason Jeffrey Jones is the director of the Computational Social Science of Emerging Realities Group

Publications

• NEW! Identity diversification and homogenization: Evidence from frequent estimates of similarity of self-authored, self-descriptive text
  Danial Vahabli and Jason Jeffrey Jones
  Journal of Computational Social Science, 8(2). doi: 10.1007/s42001-025-00358-y
  
  
• NEW! Statewise: Human Identity Investigator for the United States
  Dakota Handzlik, Jason Jeffrey Jones and Steven Skiena
  Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 19. June 2025. doi: 10.1609/icwsm.v19i1.35949
  
  
• LGBTQ Visibility Measured Consistently and Persistently in US Twitter Bios from 2012 through 2023
  Jason Jeffrey Jones and Irissa Cisternino
  Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 4. doi: 10.51685/jqd.2024.017
  
  
• HINENI: Human Identity across Nations of the Earth Ngram Investigator
  Dakota Handzlik, Jason Jeffrey Jones and Steven Skiena
  Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 18. June 2024. doi: 10.1609/icwsm.v18i1.31331
  
  
• The evolution of occupational identity in twitter biographies
  Xingzhi Guo, Dakota Handzlik, Jason Jeffrey Jones and Steven Skiena
  Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 18. June 2024. doi: 10.1609/icwsm.v18i1.31330
  
  
• Quantifying Generalized Trust in Individuals and Counties Using Language
  Giorgi et al.
  Frontiers in Social Psychology, 2(1384262). doi: frsps.2024.1384262
  
  
• Editors' Introduction to Special Issue of JQD:DM in Collaboration with ICWSM
  Sarah Shugars, Yini Zhang and Jason Jeffrey Jones
  Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 4. doi: 10.51685/jqd.2024.icwsm.1
  
  
• Attitudes Toward Artificial General Intelligence: Results from American Adults in 2021 and 2023
  Jason Jeffrey Jones and Steven Skiena
  Seeds of Science, February 2024. doi: 10.53975/8b8e-9e08
  
  
• Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Social Trust in American Institutions
  Andrew Collins and Jason Jeffrey Jones
  Journal of Social Computing, 4(3), 221–231. doi: 10.23919/JSC.2023.0022
  
  
• American public opinion on artificial intelligence in healthcare
  Jessica Rojahn, Andrea Palu, Steven Skiena and Jason Jeffrey Jones
  PLOS ONE 18(11): e0294028. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294028
  
  
• Bursts of contemporaneous publication among high- and low-credibility online information providers
  Ceren Budak, Lia Bozarth, Robert M. Bond, Drew Margolin, Jason Jeffrey Jones and R. Kelly Garrett
  New Media & Society doi: 10.1177/14614448231183617
  
  
• Pronoun Lists in Profile Bios Display Increased Prevalence, Systematic Co-Presence with Other Keywords and Network Tie Clustering among US Twitter Users 2015-2022
  Liam Tucker and Jason Jeffrey Jones
  Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 3. doi: 10.51685/jqd.2023.003
  
  
• Slava Ukraini: Exploring Identity Activism in Support of Ukraine via the Ukraine Flag Emoji on Twitter
  Margot A. Hare and Jason Jeffrey Jones
  Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 3. doi: 10.51685/jqd.2023.005
  
  
• A dataset for the study of identity at scale: Annual Prevalence of American Twitter Users with specified Token in their Profile Bio 2015–2020
  Jason Jeffrey Jones
  PLoS ONE 16(11): e0260185. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260185
  
  
• Using Twitter Bios to Measure Changes in Self-Identity: Are Americans Defining Themselves More Politically Over Time?
  Nick Rogers and Jason Jeffrey Jones
  Journal of Social Computing 2(1), 1-13. doi: 10.23919/JSC.2021.0002
  
  
• Tackling misinformation: What researchers could do with social media data
  Irene V Pasquetto, et. al.
  Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review, 1(8). doi: 10.37016/mr-2020-49
  
  
• Virtual reality and embodied experience induce similar levels of empathy change: Experimental evidence
  Andrew Hargrove, Jamie M. Sommer and Jason Jeffrey Jones
  Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 2, 100038. doi: 10.1016/j.chbr.2020.100038
  
  
• Stereotypical Gender Associations in Language Have Decreased Over Time
  Jason Jeffrey Jones, Mohammad Ruhul Amin, Jessica Kim and Steven Skiena
  Sociological Science 7(1), 1-35. doi: 10.15195/v7.a1
  
  
• Association Between Late-Night Tweeting and Next-Day Game Performance among Professional Basketball Players
  Jason Jeffrey Jones, Gregory W. Kirschen, Sindhuja Kancharla and Lauren Hale
  Sleep Health - Journal of the National Sleep Foundation 5(1), 68-71. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2018.09.005
  
  
• American Political-Party Affiliation as a Predictor of Usage of an Adultery Website
  Kodi B. Arfer and Jason Jeffrey Jones
  Archives of Sexual Behavior 48(3), 715-723. doi:10.1007/s10508-018-1244-1
  
  
• The Impact of Sleep Duration on Performance Among Competitive Athletes: A Systematic Literature Review
  Gregory W. Kirschen, Jason Jeffrey Jones, and Lauren Hale
  Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine (2018). doi: 10.1097/JSM.0000000000000622
  
  
• Did the Black Panther Movie Make Blacks Blacker? Examining Black Racial Identity on Twitter Before and After the Black Panther Movie Release
  Firman M. Firmansyah, Jason Jeffrey Jones
  In: Weber I. et al. (eds) Social Informatics. SocInfo 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11864. Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-34971-4_5
  
  
• Network Experiments Through Academic-Industry Collaboration
  Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jason Jeffrey Jones, and Jaime E. Settle
  In: Lehmann S., Ahn YY. (eds) Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems. Computational Social Sciences. Springer, Cham doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-77332-2_18
  
  
• Social Network Effects on Academic Achievement
  Robert M. Bond, Volha Chykina, and Jason Jeffrey Jones
  The Social Science Journal 54 (4), 438-449. doi: 10.1016/j.soscij.2017.06.001
  
  
• Social Influence and Political Mobilization: Further Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election
  Jason Jeffrey Jones, Robert M. Bond, Eytan Bakshy, Dean Eckles, and James H. Fowler
  PLOS ONE 12(4): e0173851. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173851
  
  
• Social Endorsement Cues and Political Participation
  Robert M. Bond, Jaime E. Settle, Christopher J. Fariss, Jason Jeffrey Jones, and James H. Fowler
  Political Communication 34(2), 261-281. doi: 10.1080/10584609.2016.1226223
  
  
• Social Networks and Labor Markets: How Strong Ties Relate to Job Finding On Facebook's Social Network
  Laura K. Gee, Jason Jeffrey Jones, Moira Burke
  Journal of Labor Economics 35(2), 485-518. doi: 10.1086/686225
  
  
• The Paradox of Weak Ties in 55 Countries
  Laura K. Gee, Jason Jeffrey Jones, Christopher J. Fariss, Moira Burke, James H. Fowler
  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 133, 362-372, ISSN 0167-2681, doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2016.12.004
  
  
• From Posting to Voting: The Effects of Political Competition on Online Political Engagement
  Jaime E. Settle, Robert M. Bond, Lorenzo Coviello, Christopher J. Fariss, James H. Fowler, Jason Jeffrey Jones
  Political Science Research and Methods 4(02), 361-378. doi: 10.1017/psrm.2015.1
  
  
• Yahtzee: An Anonymized Group Level Matching Procedure
  Jason Jeffrey Jones, Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jaime E. Settle, Adam D. I. Kramer, Cameron Marlow, James H. Fowler
  PLOS ONE 8(2): e55760. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055760
  
  
• Inferring Tie Strength from Online Directed Behavior
  Jason Jeffrey Jones, Jaime E. Settle, Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Cameron Marlow, James H. Fowler
  PLOS ONE 8(1): e52168. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052168
  
  
• A 61-Million-Person Experiment in Social Influence and Political Mobilization
  Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jason Jeffrey Jones, Adam D. I. Kramer, Cameron Marlow, Jaime E. Settle, James H. Fowler
  Nature. 489, 295-298.
  
  
• Sleep Does Not Enhance Motor Sequence Learning
  Timothy C. Rickard, Denise J. Cai, Cory A. Rieth, Jason Jeffrey Jones, M. Colin Ard
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 34(4), 834-842.
  
  
• Is the Mind Inherently Forward-Looking? Comparing Prediction and Retrodiction
  Jason Jeffrey Jones, Hal Pashler
  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 14(2), 295-300.

Books (online and free to read!)

📖 Ipseology - A new science of the self
ISBN: 979-8-9896544-0-6

📖 Thinking Machines, Pondering Humans - Public Perception of Artificial Intelligence
ISBN: 979-8-9896544-1-3

In The News

• On Twitter, Trump is more popular than Jesus
  Washington Post
• Social Networks Can Affect Voter Turnout, Study Says
  New York Times
• Facebook friends’ voting has impact on Election Day turnout, study finds
  Washington Post
• How people use Facebook social connections to find work
  CBS News
• Having a Lot of Facebook Friends Can Help You Land a New Job
  Entrepreneur.com
• For NBA Players, Nothing Good Ever Happens on Twitter After 11 p.m
  SI.com (Sports Illustrated)
• Facebook Could Be Powerful Tool In Targeting Voters
  NPR All Things Considered
• Get Out the Friend Vote: How Facebook Spurred 340,000 Extra Votes in 2010
  TIME
• Facebook 'Friends,' and Why We Should Lose the Scare Quotes
  The Atlantic

Find Me Online

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Twitter: @jasonjones_jjj

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Preprints and Projects

• Predicting the Self with Generative AI. Slides: slides-Jones-Predicting-the-Self.pdf
• Read my manifestos: Dashboard Scientist and Live Data
  
• "Partner" surpassed "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" in prevalence within US active user Twitter profile biographies - Decomposition of a temporal identity trend. Slides: slides-Jones-Partner-Project-INAS-2025.pdf
• Ipseology blog: Multinational Ipseological Analysis for 2023 International Pronouns Day
  
• Americans' Support for AI Development - Nowcasted Daily with Open Data and Methods. Slides: slides-Jones-AI-Daily-SocSci-2025.pdf
• Jones-Skiena Public Opinion of Artificial Intelligence Dashboard
  
• Complex Contagions in Charitable Donations
  
• International Update Your Bio Day is August 10th
  
• Ipseology Central
  
• Social Science Dashboard Inator and the AI Support Daily Dashboard
  
• Blog: Thinking Machines, Pondering Humans (blog companion to the book)
  
• I am building an app named Words You Today. Contact me to request an invite to the alpha.
  
• Is Virtual Reality Uniquely Effective in Eliciting Empathy?
  
• ??? The Snworb
  
• Acquisition of Social Network Structure.
  
• Scale-Free Superiority, Egocentric Bias and Network Centrality Heuristics in Social Graph Learning.
  
• Jason Jeffrey Jones Productions is a publisher and negative-profit entity that converts a portion of my salary to free public goods to accelerate research.