I am a Professor in the Departments of Communication and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. My research focuses on political communication, political psychology, and the relationships between public policy, public opinion, and mass media. I have been particularly interested in negativity (and positivity) in news coverage, and the role of mass media in representative democracy. This site includes descriptions of these ongoing Projects, published Research (including data and content analytic tools), my Lab & Teaching, and links to recent News & Blogs related to my work.
Dr Tim Friedman works as a Senior Research Fellow and leads the Questionnaires team within the Assessment Development Program at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). Tim has extensive roles in large-scale surveys, serving as the project director at ACER for Australia’s National Assessment Program - ICT Literacy 2022, and international project coordinator for the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2022 cycle. He has led ACER’s contribution to the development of contextual questionnaires and their subsequent analysis for the COVID-19 Monitoring Impacts on Learning Outcomes (MILO) project as well as other large-scale surveys including the OECD International Early Learning Study (IELS), the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics study (SEA-PLM), the Pacific Islands Literacy and Numeracy Study (PILNA). In 2011, Tim was awarded a PhD in Psychology at Monash University for his investigation into the detection subtle deficits in cognitive decline, using a novel computer based test of cognitive function.
Did my PhD on Tuberculosis and my post-doc in Health Economics. I've been at the Institute for Future studies and active in the World Values Survey network since the early 90's. Worked in Sophia Antipolis, Southern France for many years as professor of Future studies and communication strategies. Most recent project: A Migrant World Values Survey in Sweden. We have data from more than hundred countries on values and social norms in the World Values Survey, but we lack representative data on people migrating from one country to another. We have now completed the very first migrant WVS in Sweden, with 6,500 respondents from the main non-european migrant countries.