Dave Markowitz

@davidmmarkowitz

Associate Professor @CommDeptMSU | @Stanford & @Cornell alum

davidmarkowitz.org Joined May 2009

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Interested in a PhD in Communication? Learn more about the Dept. of Communication at Michigan State at #nca2026. Our faculty are excited to meet with prosepective students to discuss various interests in communication research. Find us at the grad fair and beyond!

Dave Markowitz @davidmmarkowitz May 12

🚨 Introducing Dyadic (chatdyadic.com) — a research platform for human–human and human–AI conversation studies. 🚨

Select features:
• Text/audio chat studies
• AI confederates, API integrations
• Surveys before/during/after chats
• Qualtrics + Prolific integration

Dave Markowitz @davidmmarkowitz Sep 18, 2025

Prior work shows AI is often truth-biased in text-based deception detection. In our new 12-study paper in JOC, we find a substantial lie-bias in audiovisual deception detection during mock interrogations. Read more here! doi.org/10.1093/joc/jq…

academic.oup.com The (in)efficacy of AI personas in deception detection experiments Abstract. Artificial intelligence (AI) has recently been used to aid in deception detection and to simulate human data in social scientific research. Thus,

Dave Markowitz @davidmmarkowitz Aug 26, 2025

New in @PNASNews! We analyzed 38 million US obituaries to see how we remember the deceased:
- Tradition & benevolence dominate legacies
- Major cultural events (e.g., 9/11) shifted what values were emphasized
- Gender & age of the deceased shape legacies
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

www.pnas.org An exploration of basic human values in 38 million obituaries over 30 years | PNAS How societies remember the dead can reveal what people value in life. We analyzed 38 million obituaries from the United States to examine how perso...

Dave Markowitz @davidmmarkowitz Apr 26, 2025

Hey, look! It's two-time Super Bowl champion for the @giants and @Cornell @BigRed_Football football hall of famer, @KevinBoothe77! Hail, all hail, Cornell!