Mirta Galesic

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Mirta Galesic
Alma mater University of Maryland, College Park
University of Zagreb
University of Michigan
Scientific career
Institutions Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Santa Fe Institute
University of Maryland, College Park

Mirta Galesic is a Croatian American psychologist who is the Cowan Chair in Human Social Dynamics at the Santa Fe Institute. She serves as a member of the faculty at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna.

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Early life and education

Galesic was born in Croatia. She was an undergraduate student at the University of Zagreb, where she studied psychology. [1] She moved to the theory of marketing, and completed a master's degree.[ citation needed ] Galesic earned a doctorate in psychology at the University of Zagreb in 2004. [2] In 2004, Galesic left Croatia and joined the University of Michigan, [2] where she studied survey methodology. After completing her graduate studies, Galesic moved to the University of Maryland, College Park. She joined the Max Planck Institute for Human Development as a postdoctoral research fellow.[ citation needed ]

Research and career

Galesic was appointed to the faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in 2008. She remained in Berlin until 2015, when she was made Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.[ citation needed ]

Galesic investigates how cognitive mechanisms interact with their external environments to produce complex phenomena. [3] She is interested in how cognitive bias in social judgements emerge. [4] Additionally, Galesic has studied how people understand and process uncertainty, as well as how they make decisions. [5] [6] She has investigated how researchers can obtain reliable data from social networks. [5] [7] She calls her approach "human social sensing", that is, asking people to gather information on others in their social networks. [5] [8] [9] She studied how Twitter users convey their political opinions, and found that in groups of similar thinking people, Twitter uses were more likely to overtly share their opinions, whilst when they were in mixed groups they were likely to use covert messaging. [10] Alongside her work on securing accurate information from social media, Galesic studied hate and counterspeech on Twitter. [9]

Selected publications

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  5. 1 2 3 Yang, Vicky Chuqiao; Galesic, Mirta; McGuinness, Harvey; Harutyunyan, Ani (2021-08-31). "Dynamical system model predicts when social learners impair collective performance". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (35): e2106292118. Bibcode:2021PNAS..11806292Y. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2106292118 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   8536379 . PMID   34446556.
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