Videos (with slides)

  • Zusammenfassung der Forschung zu Fehlinformation, Polarisierung & Social Media
    • Polarisierung durch Algorithmen? Demokratie und Meinungsbildung im digitalen Zeitalter – Mythen auf dem Prüfstand: Video & Folien.
    • Social Media sind (k)ein Klimkaller: Der Einfluss von Algorithmen, Echokammern und KI auf den digitalen Diskurs und was zu tun ist: Video & Folien.
  • About our project on emotions & misinformation
  • Collective emotions during the COVID-19 Outbreak. Slides.
  • Validity of collection emotion measures from social media: Video.
  • Using Machine Learning and social media content for suicide prevention

Slides for other talks

Public presentations & panel discussions

  1. 07/04/2025 Gespräch im Anschluss an die Doku How to build a truth engine beim Osterfestival Tirol, Leokino, Innsbruck.
  2. 13/11/2024 The Social Dynamics around Misinformation Spreading on Social Media, Lecture Series: Foundation and Methods of Digital Humanism, BIG Lecture room, University of Vienna.
  3. 24/10/2024, 17h Radikale Hoffnung - wie überwinden wir die Polarisierung?, Panel Diskussion mit Rudi Anschober & Ingrid Brodnig, IDEALE Konferenz, Wien.
  4. 23/10/2024 Polarisierung durch Algorithmen? Demokratie und Meinungsbildung im digitalen Zeitalter – Mythen auf dem Prüfstand, Impulsvortrag & Panel at the Digital Days 2024, Technical Museum, Vienna.
  5. 21/05/2024Transparenz von Plattformdaten: Wie tickt der Algorithmus?, panelist, discussion of the Digital Services Act, RTR & KommAustria, Vienna.
  6. 08/05/2024 Social Media sind (k)ein Klimakiller. Webinar bei klimaaktiv (Initiative des Bundesministeriums für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie), Recording. Folien.
  7. 12/03/2024 Der EU Digital Services Act: Chancen für den Forschungsstandort Wien, panelist on the relevance of the DSA for research, event organized by MA23 and WWTF, at waff Vienna.
  8. 13/07/2023 Beyond Surviving: a Panel on Mental Well-Being in Academia. Panel discussion organized by NetPlace at Netsci 2023, Vienna.
  9. 20/10/2022 Digital Humanism in Practice: are complex systems compatible with democratic processes? [Digitaler Humanismus in der Praxis: sind komplexe Systeme vereinbar mit demokratischen Prozessen?], panel discussion at the Digital Days, Impact Hub, Vienna.
  10. 20/04/2022 Digital Humanism - How to Put Humans at the Center of Emerging Tech, Panel discussion, Wilson Center. Video including a brief introduction to the Emotion & Misinformation project (at 29 minutes).
  11. 18/03/2022 Launch of World Happiness Report 2022. Video (Summary of our chapter at 19’20’’).
  12. 18/11/2021 Emotionen und die Verbreitung von Falschinformationen, Vienna Art Week, Panel on „Regaining Control. Der Mensch im Zentrum der technologischen Entwicklung“, Vienna. Panel discussion.
  13. 16/03/2017: La neurobiologie des relations (Neurobiology of relationships) , Semaine du Cerveau (Week of the Brain), Paris.

Conference and seminar presentations

  1. 19/09/2024, 14h45 Polarization and misinformation: Social drivers and algorithmic mechanisms on digital media, German Political Psychology Conference, Vienna. Accepted talk.
  2. 16/05/2024, 5 myths about social media: What I was wrong about when I wrote our grant proposal. Talk, Vienna Behavioral Circle Meeting, Complexity Science Hub, Vienna.
  3. 13/07/2023 Detecting Potentially Harmful and Protective Suicide-related Content on Twitter: A Machine Learning Approach. Netsci 2023. Accepted lightening talk.
  4. 23-25/02/2023 Detecting Potentially Harmful and Protective Suicide-related Content on Twitter: A Machine Learning Approach, Annual convention of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology.
  5. 09/02/2023 Measuring emotions in misinformation studies: Distinguishing emotional state from response and misinformation recognition from susceptibility, Expert Workshop on Mis- and disinformation, Zürich, University of Zurich. Slides.
  6. 19-23/07/2022 Detecting Potentially Harmful and Protective Suicide-related Content on Twitter: A Machine Learning Approach, 8th International Conference on Computational Social Science. Video available here.
  7. 28/04/2022: Collective emotions on social media: Validity and applications to the COVID-19 pandemic, Data Science/Computational Social Science seminar, School of Information, University of Michigan.
  8. 14/01/2022 Emotional misinformation spreading: The interplay of emotions and misinformation on social media, Conference on Intelligent Machines, Emotions, and the Planet, Stockholm. Slides.
  9. 11/12/2021 Collective emotions on social media: validity and applications to the COVID-19 pandemic, Workshop: Österreichisches Treffen zu Sentimentinferenz (ÖTSI) Österreichische Linguistik-Tagung 2021.
  10. 5/11/2021 Detecting Potentially Harmful and Protective Suicide-related Content on Twitter: Machine Learning Classification of Tweets, Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Seminar “Analysis of Complex Systems”.
  11. 24/09/2021 A Machine Learning approach to media effects research on suicide: Detecting potentially harmful and protective content in social media postings, 31st World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Symposium: Research update on the Papageno effect.
  12. 30/07/2021 Collective Emotions during the COVID-19 Outbreak, 7th International Conference on Computational Social Science .
  13. 6/07/2021 Collective Emotions during the COVID-19 Outbreak, Networks 2021 Conference.
  14. 5/06/2021 Science Shorty: Assessing emotions using social media data, 35st WISIA Symposium, Women in Science - an Interdisciplinary Association, Heiligenkreuz, Austria.
  15. 21/05/2021 Collective Emotions during the COVID-19 Outbreak, Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre Seminar Series. Virtual talk, Video
  16. 12/04/2021 Collective Emotions during the COVID-19 Outbreak, Royal Economic Society 2021 Annual Conference, Special session on Social Media and NLP in Economics.
  17. 25/03/2021 Collective Emotions during the COVID-19 Outbreak, Spring 2021 DIGSUM seminar series. Virtual Talk, Video.
  18. 12/02/2021 Collective Emotions during the COVID-19 Outbreak, Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Symposium: Crises through new lenses: Studying COVID with 21st century technology.
  19. 9/12/2020 Collective Emotions during the COVID-19 Outbreak, 8th Computational Social Science Satellite Event at the Conference on Complex Systems, Dublin, Ireland.
  20. 4/12/2020 Collective Emotions during the COVID-19 Outbreak, Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Seminar “Analysis of Complex Systems”.
  21. 8/11/2019 Science Shorty: From power postures to Open Science, 31st WISIA Symposium, Women in Science - an Interdisciplinary Association, Vienna, Austria.
  22. 21/07/ 2018 Body posture impact on action decisions under social threat, Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Leiden, Netherlands.
  23. 2017 Metzler H., Grèzes J. Your body affects your mind: Body posture effects on mental images of faces (studies 1-4). International Convention for Psychological Science, Vienna, Austria. Poster.
  24. 2016 Power Postures and Social Cognition: A PhD Experience in the middle of a controversy, ENP seminar Statistics and Reproducibility: Current Challenges in Neuroscience, École des Neurosciences, Paris.
  25. 2016 Metzler H., Grèzes J. Your body affects your mind: Body posture effects on mental images of faces (studies 1-3). European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Porto, Portugal. Poster.
  26. 2016 Metzler H., Grèzes J. Your body affects your mind: Body posture effects on mental images of faces. Annual Meeting of the Société de Psychophysiologie et de Neurosciences Cognitives , Lille, France. Poster.
  27. 2015 Metzler, H., Chadwick, M., Grèzes, J. The impact of power postures on mental representations of in- and outgroup faces (study 1). Aegina Summer School “The social self: how social interactions shape body and self-representations”, Aegina, Greece. Poster and short presentation.
  28. 2015 Metzler, H., Chadwick, M. , El Zein, M. , Wyart, V., Grèzes, J. The impact of power postures on self-relevance appraisal during emotion recognition. ENP days, La Clusaz, France. Poster.
  29. 2013 Sex at Dawn and Sex at Dusk – 2 seminars on human sexuality at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Department of Cognitive Science, École Normale Supérieur, Paris.