Jason Jeffrey Jones

Stony Brook University

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Institute for Advanced Computational Science
CV | Google Scholar | Email: jason.j.jones@stonybrook.edu

I study two things:
🤔🤖Public perception of artificial intelligence.
💬🆔Ipseology: The language choices individuals make when describing themselves.

NEW! Our paper led by Lena Maier showing dyadic hashtag diffusion within Twitter bios is now published!
NEW! Watch my AI Daily dashboard for daily estimates of American adults' support for artificial intelligence.

Research Group

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

Publications

NEW! Online interaction and identity cue adoption: a large-scale analysis of hashtag adoption on Twitter
Lena Maier, Daniel Matter, Jason Jeffrey Jones and Jürgen Pfeffer
EPJ Data Science. doi: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-026-00642-5
NEW! Measuring Trends in Identity Transition Using Social Media Bios: A Methodology and Proof of Concept
Nick Rogers and Jason Jeffrey Jones
Proceedings of the Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling 18th International Conference. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-07715-8_3
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
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.