Violet Cheung
ProfessorDr. Violet Cheung is a professor in the department of psychology at the University of San Francisco. Her research on mass emotions started 15 years ago while completing her doctorate degree at UC Berkeley; she examined angry responses to the 9/11 terrorist attack and how the public sentiment precipitated the U.S. to go to war. She now focuses on anxious and fearful responses in the new contexts of cyber insecurity and the migrant crisis using Big Data Analytics. Her research was funded by the...
Education:
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Expertise:
anxiety, fear and anger, public sentiments, big data analytics