Hongkai Mao
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Hongkai Mao
@hongkai1.bsky.social
Organizational Behavior PhD Student @ Stanford Graduate School of Business |Studying emotions and morality on social media
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🚨New preprint🚨

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In a sample of ~2 billion comments, social media discourse becomes more negative over time

Archival and experimental findings suggest this is a byproduct of people trying to differentiate themselves

Led by @hongkai1.bsky.social in his 1st year (!) of his PhD
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM