Hello, and welcome to retrieving the social sciences, a production of the Center for Social Science scholarship. I'm your host, Ian Anson, Associate Professor of Political Science here at UMBC. On today's show, as always, we'll be hearing from UMBC faculty, students, visiting speakers and community partners about the social science research they've been performing in recent times. qualitative, quantitative, applied empirical normative, and retrieving the social sciences. We bring the best of UMBC social science community to you. One of the true joys in life, at least in my humble opinion, is taking a kid to a baseball game. Kids barely watch the game, of course, unless they're really destined to become one of those baseball super fans, you know, the type, I'm sure. But anyway, kids are generally in it for the food, the gimmicks, we've been innings singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame. And well, you know, just the pageantry of it all. My wife and I took our daughter to her very first baseball game last year, and I gotta say it was a blast. She was, of course, way too young to appreciate the action, just around a year old. But we found that she was delighted most of all to engage in people watching. If you did the math, just now you probably realize that our daughter was born in 2021, when COVID restrictions were still in full swing. By the time we felt comfortable taking her to the baseball game, it's possible she had only seen a few dozen different people in her whole life. So you can imagine the tiny thoughts running through your head. Who are all these people? What are they like? How are they different? How are they similar? What makes them do the things they do? And think the things they think?