Ashwini Ashokkumar
@ashwinia.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Psychology. Studies the social psychology of groups, identity, politics, & language. www.ashwinia.com
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Ashwini Ashokkumar
@ashwinia.bsky.social
· Apr 22
Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology
Dr. Ashwini Ashokkumar’s lab at the Department of Psychology at Harvard University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position to start in Fall 2025. The lab conducts research related to i...
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🚨🚨 I’m looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join my lab at Harvard's Psychology Department starting Fall 2025 🚨📣
Please share widely and spread the word to interested candidates! 🧵
🗓 Application review begins April 30
Apply here: rb.gy/k7q9kf (1/2)
Please share widely and spread the word to interested candidates! 🧵
🗓 Application review begins April 30
Apply here: rb.gy/k7q9kf (1/2)
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
🚨New Paper🚨
Elected officials are increasingly extreme.
E.g., a recent analysis of 84,000 state-level candidates found that extreme candidates are now winning at the highest rates in 30 years.
Why are people increasingly drawn to extreme candidates?
Elected officials are increasingly extreme.
E.g., a recent analysis of 84,000 state-level candidates found that extreme candidates are now winning at the highest rates in 30 years.
Why are people increasingly drawn to extreme candidates?
September 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🚨New Paper🚨
Elected officials are increasingly extreme.
E.g., a recent analysis of 84,000 state-level candidates found that extreme candidates are now winning at the highest rates in 30 years.
Why are people increasingly drawn to extreme candidates?
Elected officials are increasingly extreme.
E.g., a recent analysis of 84,000 state-level candidates found that extreme candidates are now winning at the highest rates in 30 years.
Why are people increasingly drawn to extreme candidates?
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
📣📣We're going for round two!!!📣📣
I'll be reviewing graduate applicants again this year. Come join my growing lab!
Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com
Info about the social program: www.psychology.pitt.edu/graduate/soc...
I'll be reviewing graduate applicants again this year. Come join my growing lab!
Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com
Info about the social program: www.psychology.pitt.edu/graduate/soc...
August 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
📣📣We're going for round two!!!📣📣
I'll be reviewing graduate applicants again this year. Come join my growing lab!
Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com
Info about the social program: www.psychology.pitt.edu/graduate/soc...
I'll be reviewing graduate applicants again this year. Come join my growing lab!
Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com
Info about the social program: www.psychology.pitt.edu/graduate/soc...
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
July 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
If you knew Mike (well first you’d be laughing because he was just so funny) you’d know he would be so pissed at these cuts to scientific research and the peddling of magic & mysticism to good people yearning for control. I hope he knows his story continues to matter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
Opinion | Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have Either.
www.nytimes.com
June 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
If you knew Mike (well first you’d be laughing because he was just so funny) you’d know he would be so pissed at these cuts to scientific research and the peddling of magic & mysticism to good people yearning for control. I hope he knows his story continues to matter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
Read our @nytimes.com op-ed to see some of the history and research behind this strategy →
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
Opinion | This Is What Makes Protests Successful
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Read our @nytimes.com op-ed to see some of the history and research behind this strategy →
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
missed this last month: data science informing psych, sociology, polisci
in Lyft data (222K drivers), Black or minority drivers get speeding tickets 1/3 more often **when they are known to be going the same speed**
beautiful work, it's racial profiling, case closed
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
in Lyft data (222K drivers), Black or minority drivers get speeding tickets 1/3 more often **when they are known to be going the same speed**
beautiful work, it's racial profiling, case closed
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
missed this last month: data science informing psych, sociology, polisci
in Lyft data (222K drivers), Black or minority drivers get speeding tickets 1/3 more often **when they are known to be going the same speed**
beautiful work, it's racial profiling, case closed
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
in Lyft data (222K drivers), Black or minority drivers get speeding tickets 1/3 more often **when they are known to be going the same speed**
beautiful work, it's racial profiling, case closed
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
We are extremely pleased to announce the preliminary release of the combined pre-election and post-election dataset for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study!
The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...
Best,
The ANES Team
The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...
Best,
The ANES Team
2024 Time Series Study - ANES | American National Election Studies
electionstudies.org
May 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
We are extremely pleased to announce the preliminary release of the combined pre-election and post-election dataset for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study!
The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...
Best,
The ANES Team
The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...
Best,
The ANES Team
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
Congratulations to psychologists Rich Petty, Phoebe Ellsworth, BJ Casey, Jamie Pennebaker, & Alison Gopnik on their election to the National Academy of Sciences today!!
April 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Congratulations to psychologists Rich Petty, Phoebe Ellsworth, BJ Casey, Jamie Pennebaker, & Alison Gopnik on their election to the National Academy of Sciences today!!
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
yesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)
April 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
yesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)
🚨🚨 I’m looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join my lab at Harvard's Psychology Department starting Fall 2025 🚨📣
Please share widely and spread the word to interested candidates! 🧵
🗓 Application review begins April 30
Apply here: rb.gy/k7q9kf (1/2)
Please share widely and spread the word to interested candidates! 🧵
🗓 Application review begins April 30
Apply here: rb.gy/k7q9kf (1/2)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology
Dr. Ashwini Ashokkumar’s lab at the Department of Psychology at Harvard University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position to start in Fall 2025. The lab conducts research related to i...
rb.gy
April 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
🚨🚨 I’m looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join my lab at Harvard's Psychology Department starting Fall 2025 🚨📣
Please share widely and spread the word to interested candidates! 🧵
🗓 Application review begins April 30
Apply here: rb.gy/k7q9kf (1/2)
Please share widely and spread the word to interested candidates! 🧵
🗓 Application review begins April 30
Apply here: rb.gy/k7q9kf (1/2)
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐! www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...
February 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐! www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
Grateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel!
How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵
How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵
February 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Grateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel!
How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵
How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
Link to shiny app where you can explore all the LIWC Dimensions around this time period: smesquiti.shinyapps.io/blm-shiny-ap...
Social Upheavals LIWC Explorer
smesquiti.shinyapps.io
February 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Link to shiny app where you can explore all the LIWC Dimensions around this time period: smesquiti.shinyapps.io/blm-shiny-ap...
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
🚨 Excited to share work in collaboration with Sarah Seraj, Andreas Weyland, @ryanboyd.io , @radamihalcea.bsky.social, @ashwinia.bsky.social, and Jamie Pennebaker out now in Scientific Reports! 🚨
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Analysis of social media language reveals the psychological interaction of three successive upheavals - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Analysis of social media language reveals the psychological interaction of three successive upheavals
www.nature.com
February 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
🚨 Excited to share work in collaboration with Sarah Seraj, Andreas Weyland, @ryanboyd.io , @radamihalcea.bsky.social, @ashwinia.bsky.social, and Jamie Pennebaker out now in Scientific Reports! 🚨
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age.
Details here:
www.crockettlab.org/research-spe...
Please share!
Details here:
www.crockettlab.org/research-spe...
Please share!
Research Specialist 2025 — Crockett Lab
www.crockettlab.org
February 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age.
Details here:
www.crockettlab.org/research-spe...
Please share!
Details here:
www.crockettlab.org/research-spe...
Please share!
📢 The Historical Psychology Pre-conference at
@spspnews.bsky.social is accepting submissions. 📢
Check out our fantastic lineup of speakers ⬇️
Please submit posters/talks, and please share widely!
@spspnews.bsky.social is accepting submissions. 📢
Check out our fantastic lineup of speakers ⬇️
Please submit posters/talks, and please share widely!
The Historical Psychology Pre-conference at SPSP is up! We have a fantastic lineup!
Themes include the role of historical processes in psychological/economic outcomes today & historical narratives in intergroup relations.
Send your abstracts!
W/ @ashwinia.bsky.social & @joshcjackson.bsky.social
Themes include the role of historical processes in psychological/economic outcomes today & historical narratives in intergroup relations.
Send your abstracts!
W/ @ashwinia.bsky.social & @joshcjackson.bsky.social
September 26, 2024 at 3:27 PM
📢 The Historical Psychology Pre-conference at
@spspnews.bsky.social is accepting submissions. 📢
Check out our fantastic lineup of speakers ⬇️
Please submit posters/talks, and please share widely!
@spspnews.bsky.social is accepting submissions. 📢
Check out our fantastic lineup of speakers ⬇️
Please submit posters/talks, and please share widely!
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
🚨New WP: Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments?🚨
Prior work uses LLMs to simulate survey responses, but can they predict results of social science experiments?
Across 70 studies, we find striking alignment (r = .85) between simulated and observed effects 🧵👇
Prior work uses LLMs to simulate survey responses, but can they predict results of social science experiments?
Across 70 studies, we find striking alignment (r = .85) between simulated and observed effects 🧵👇
August 7, 2024 at 9:43 PM
🚨New WP: Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments?🚨
Prior work uses LLMs to simulate survey responses, but can they predict results of social science experiments?
Across 70 studies, we find striking alignment (r = .85) between simulated and observed effects 🧵👇
Prior work uses LLMs to simulate survey responses, but can they predict results of social science experiments?
Across 70 studies, we find striking alignment (r = .85) between simulated and observed effects 🧵👇
📣 Come work with us!! Excited to announce that I will be recruiting a PhD student this cycle at NYU.
Interested in the psychology of identity, group dynamics, politics, and language...? in exploring new methods? Check out our website: ashwinia.com & please share widely & with interested students
Interested in the psychology of identity, group dynamics, politics, and language...? in exploring new methods? Check out our website: ashwinia.com & please share widely & with interested students
ashwinia.com
November 17, 2023 at 2:51 PM
📣 Come work with us!! Excited to announce that I will be recruiting a PhD student this cycle at NYU.
Interested in the psychology of identity, group dynamics, politics, and language...? in exploring new methods? Check out our website: ashwinia.com & please share widely & with interested students
Interested in the psychology of identity, group dynamics, politics, and language...? in exploring new methods? Check out our website: ashwinia.com & please share widely & with interested students
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
The University of Toronto Department of Psychology (downtown campus) is searching for an Assistant Professor in Personality or Social Psychology. The position is a Tier II Canada Research Chair. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
October 10, 2023 at 8:04 PM
The University of Toronto Department of Psychology (downtown campus) is searching for an Assistant Professor in Personality or Social Psychology. The position is a Tier II Canada Research Chair. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Reposted by Ashwini Ashokkumar
Hey Bluesky 👋
Columbia is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in social psychology. Emphasis on multi-method expertise, e.g., computational approaches to studying social behavior, psychophysiology, big data, & other novel methods. Review begins October 1.
Come join us! apply.interfolio.com/131473
Columbia is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in social psychology. Emphasis on multi-method expertise, e.g., computational approaches to studying social behavior, psychophysiology, big data, & other novel methods. Review begins October 1.
Come join us! apply.interfolio.com/131473
September 28, 2023 at 9:19 PM
Hey Bluesky 👋
Columbia is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in social psychology. Emphasis on multi-method expertise, e.g., computational approaches to studying social behavior, psychophysiology, big data, & other novel methods. Review begins October 1.
Come join us! apply.interfolio.com/131473
Columbia is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in social psychology. Emphasis on multi-method expertise, e.g., computational approaches to studying social behavior, psychophysiology, big data, & other novel methods. Review begins October 1.
Come join us! apply.interfolio.com/131473