Lasmi Marbun

PhD Candidate

Main Research Areas and Interests

• Polarization
• Experiments
• Media Framing
• Opinion Dynamics

Lasmi Marbun is a PhD candidate, co-supervised by Univ. Prof. Dr. Sophie Lecheler and Mirta Galesic and Henrik Olsson. She is part of the PolCom lab at the University of Vienna and partly residing in the Complexity Science Hub where she is involved in the Collective Adaptation project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) grant. The project goal is to investigate why collectives can be stuck in deadlocks about important problems, such as polarization, and to understand how collectives can adapt to them. As collective actions are influenced by how the media frame societal problems, she is also interested in how media framing can affect tolerance to different opinions.

She holds a Master’s degree in Behavioural and Data Science from the University of Warwick and a Bachelor's of Psychology from Universitas Indonesia. She aspires to bridge the computational models of social dynamics with empirical methods. Her research methods involve group experiments, survey analysis, and other computational social sciences.

Her previous works involve studying how various conspiracy beliefs are interconnected and investigating how repeated exposure to fake news headlines influences people's perception of their truthfulness. Previously, she has spent several years working as a user researcher to help companies to design user-centered technology platforms, which includes consulting for Indonesia’s Ministry of Education.