MEMETIC NARRATIVE SOURCES DATABASE PROJECT

Our new research database is ready for applications. It is designed for experiments and studies that invesigate:

- The informational integrity of external, and internalised, memetic narratives

- The presence and effects on groups and individuals of pseudo-informational memetic narratives

- The presence and effects on groups and individuals of the illusion of source consensus

- The influence of different types of information and information sources on group and individual epistemic rationality

- Detecting the illusion of source consensus

- Psychological responses to group epistemic updating and acquisition of representations of political and ideological narratives

The database can handle data from multiple experiments and studies across these applications and variations thereof. SQL Queries and reports against the database generate data used in our SPSS, R, and JASP based descriptive statistics and statistical analyses.

The object-relational database was implemented using MS SQL Server and MS SQL SMS. Its information-source based architecture is designed to track information all the way from external public sources like publications, institutions, and social media to the cognitive structures corresponding to the epistemic, emotional, and doxastic commitments and of individuals.

- Dr Bruce Long