Academic Publications

Winterberg, Susan, Laura Manley, Karen Ejiofor, Amritha Jayanti, Joseph Fridman, Sam Lambert and Marta Zwierz. “Responsible Investing and Venture Capital.” Paper, September 2020. Technology and Public Purpose Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.

Theriault, J., Coleman, M., Feldman, M., Fridman, J., Sennesh, E., Barrett, L., & Quigley, K. (2020). Beginning with biology: “Aspects of cognition” exist in the service of the brain's overall function as a resource-regulator. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, E26. doi:10.1017/S0140525X19001705

Joseph Fridman, Mike Miesen. “Facial Recognition and Emotion Artificial Intelligence.” Boston Tech Hub Faculty Working Group, Fall Session 1 • September 17, 2019. Technology and Public Purpose Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.

Fridman, J., Barrett, L. F., Wormwood, J. B., & Quigley, K. S. (2019). Applying the theory of constructed emotion to police decision makingFrontiers in psychology10, 1946.

Alongside Faye Hendley Elgart, I supported Laurent Dubreuil and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh in the production of Dubreuil, L., & Savage-Rumbaugh, S. (2018). Dialogues on the Human Ape. U of Minnesota Press.

I supported Jordan DeLong and Gul Gunayidin on their paper, Gunaydin, G., & DeLong, J. E. (2015). Reverse correlating love: Highly passionate women idealize their partner’s facial appearance. PloS one10(3), e0121094.


Popular Writing

Fridman, J. (2021) The problem with prediction. Aeon. Edited by Sally Davies.

Fridman, J. (2019) Your Body Has a Budget. Overdrafting Makes You Sick. Elemental. Edited by Alexandra Sifferlin.

Fridman, J. (2019) What’s Science News? For Aleszu Bajak’s Science Writing course blog.

Fridman, J. (2019) What’s the difference between nature and science? For Aleszu Bajak’s Science Writing course blog.


Presentations

Silicon Valley Symposium, Rutgers University’s Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, June 2024.

Northeastern University, ENGW 3307 Science Writing with Prof. Galen Bunting, March 2024.

Rutgers University, Equity Compensation & Employee Ownership, February 2024.

Sustainability Summit in N.Y.C.: Fermenting the future of technology - Paving the Path from Petroeconomy to Biosolutions, Danish Consulate in NYC, September 2023.

UC Santa Clara, 7th Public Philosophy Network Conference, on the theme of "Facing Technology: The Role of Public Philosophy." September 2023.

UC Los Angeles Neuroscience Communication (NeuroComm) Affinity Group, Jan 2023.

ЦИПР, Cutting edge innovations: DeepTech startups. June 2021.

UC San Diego, Science, Technology, and Society, with Prof. CJ Valasek. Jan 2021.

Cal State LA Impact Media course, with Prof. Heather Fipps. November 2020.

Northeastern University PsyClub Research Panel. (2020).

Fridman, J., Nussbaum, D., Viskontas, I. (2020). Effective Affective Science Communication. Society for Affective Science Virtual Salon. May 28th, 2-3pm EDT.

Fridman, J., Barrett, L.F., Yang, V. (2020). Live Q&A: How Emotions are Made, #SciComm, & more. May 1st, 1-3pm EDT.

Fridman, J. (2020). Prediction as both a Paradigm and Contemporary Technological Metaphor. Aegina Summer School on Social Cognition 2020 - "Social Emotions”. (Accepted but not presented due to COVID-19 travel cancellation.)

Science and Us at MIT, panel on science communication. (2020).

Barrett, L., Fridman, J. (2020). Expo Stage Debrief, American Association for the Advancement of Science in Seattle, Washington.

Fridman, J. (2020). Centering the Body: Scientific paradigms, trauma, and the theory of constructed emotion. Trauma, Narratives, Institutions: Transdisciplinary Dialogues, November 15-16, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute.

Provided 3m of background testimony about affective computing. Debate on Bill H.1538/Bill S.1385. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Joint Committee on the Judiciary in 2019. Also at Boston City Council debate in 2020.

Fridman, J., Barchas-Lichtenstein, J., Feliu-Mojer, M., Kirscher, E., Williams, J. (2019). The Science of Science Communication. Jackson WILD in Jackson, Wyoming.

Fridman, J. (2019). Presentation of 2019 Sound Educator Lifetime Achievement Award to Bill Siemering. Sound Education 2019.

Fridman, J., Barrett, L.F., Boyle, T., Hendriksen, E., Heathers, J. (2018). Audio Teaching Strategies: Social Science, a panel at Sound Education 2018.

Fox, N., Lewis, N. A., Jr., Forscher, P., Heather, J., O’Grady, C., Schmidt, K., McCarthy, R., Grubbs, J., Fridman, J., Richie, S., Wang, Y.A., Brown, N. (2018). So, You’re Going to Talk to a Journalist About Your Research. Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) 2018 meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan.


ABC’s Counterpoint with Amanda Vanstone (2021). Eyes and ears.

BEabove Leadership (2020): No, You Don't have a Reptilian Brain (Unless You're Actually a Reptile)

New Aural Cultures podcast (2019): “In conversation with Joseph Fridman”.

(For interviews I’ve produced, see my Production page.)

Interviews


Posters

Fridman, J. (2020) What Audio Affords: The Opportunities and Constraints of Using Audio Storytelling for Science Communication. ComSciCon 2020 flagship.

Fridman, J. (2020) What Audio Affords: Using Audio for SciComm. Science Talk 2020. (Accepted but not presented due to travel cancellation.)

Fridman, J. (2019). What Audio Affords: The Opportunities and Constraints of Using Audio Storytelling to Address Misinformation. The National Academies’ Sackler Colloquium, Advancing the Science and Practice of Science Communication: Misinformation about Science in the Public Sphere, April 3-4 2019.


Say What? A Non-Scientific Comparison of Automated Transcription Services by Roxanne Khamsi in The Open Notebook, December 17, 2019.

At Ethics Bowl, L.I. Teenagers Debate Slippery Issues by Paul Vitello in the New York Times, Feb. 13, 2011.

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Support

Member of the inaugural Ideas Matter cohort in 2024.

Member of ComSciCon’s Science Writers 2020 Cohort, funded attendee.

Science Journalism Forum Attendance Fellowship, 2020.

Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund.

ComSciCon 2020 Flagship conference attendee.