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Quantifying the Health of SPSP

Presenter: Nathan Honeycutt Abstract: What a scientific society deems worthy of inclusion in its scholarly programming may offer insight into its intellectual priorities, its health, or its blind spots. SPSP’s symposium sessions, in particular, are competitive and reflect not only member interests, but also institutional and member judgments about what meets scientific muster and merits attention. Analyzing over 20 years of SPSP symposium abstracts using a large-language-model classifier, I provide three lines of evidence: (1) In over 20 years, there were almost no symposia with a conservative-leaning framing; (2) However, over time, the prevalence of politically neutral framing declined in step with an increasing prevalence of liberal/progressive framing; (3) Further, results indicated a rising frequency of prescriptive, activist rhetoric, primarily within liberal/progressive-framed abstracts. These patterns invite questions about pluralism and the intellectual culture within SPSP, and may reflect movement toward stronger ideological consensus. By quantifying what SPSP scholars study—and how they frame it—this study offers an evidence-based diagnostic of SPSP’s evolving character and intellectual health.