In 2009, four institutes of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Gender and Health; Health Services and Policy Research; Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction; and Population and Public Health) sponsored the Fourth Annual Canadian Research Congress on Mental Health and Addictions in the Workplace, in Toronto, Ontario. Hosted by the Work and Well-Being Research and Evaluation Program...

Four studies investigated whether political allegiance and salience of outgroup membership contribute to the phenomenon of acceptance of false, stigmatizing information (smears) about political candidates. Studies 1-3 were conducted in the month prior to the 2008 U.S. Presidential election and together demonstrated that pre-standing opposition to John McCain or Barack Obama, as well as the situ...

We annotate individual posts following the approach in [1], [2]. Tweets are grouped by topic based on included topic hashtags. For example, tweets relating to the topic of president Barack Obama contain the hashtag #obama within them. The topic-related tweets often contain other hashtags which we assign a preliminary sentiment probability (positive and negative) using the Multinomial Naive Baye...

For this project, we attempted to classify the political sentiment of tweets containing the case-insensitive string ‘Obama’ in an effort to automatically gauge the public opinion of US President Barack Obama. To accomplish this goal we investigated rule-based, supervised, and semi-supervised learning methods. Our main approach involved bootstrapping an ngram-feature-based maximum entropy classi...

n t h e l e a d-u p to the presidential election, then-presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama outlined a comprehensive place-based agenda he would, if elected, pursue to improve the lives of low-income residents in urban neighborhoods across the country. In that speech, delivered in July 2007, Senator Obama proposed to infuse poor neighborhoods with a mix of maternal and early childhood fa...

This paper reports an experiment which explores how our semantic representations of individual objects are organized and accessed in memory and how these representations are inter-linked with those of other individuals. A priming experiment was conducted to investigate the relations between singular representations of famous individuals from four categories (person, building, artwork and produc...