Assistant Professor @UVAPsyc Social psychologist researching social change. he/him 🏳️🌈
New York
Joined May 2020
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I am looking to recruit a postdoc to join my lab in the Fall of 2027 & work on projects focused on online mobilization with social media datasets - see more details here: bit.ly/4z8kJ8Q . If anyone knows someone with relevant skills, looking for a postdoc- please share!
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🚨New WP!🚨
Structured AI Dialogues Can Increase Happiness and Meaning in Life
In a preregistered RCT, four psychology-grounded #AI chatbots improved well-being across several outcomes.
Co-authors: @JonasP_Schoene @JEichstaedt @AadeshSalecha @slyubomirsky
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I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join the SPARC (Social Psychology of Activism, Resistance, & Change) Lab at @UVAPsyc in Fall 2026! You can find more info about my research on my website (ericshuman.com), and the program here (psychology.as.virginia.edu/s…).
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🚨 Out in JPSP! 🚨
Ever found that your social media feed feels more emotionally intense than it really is?
We show how the aggregation of emotional intensity across posts leads to overestimation of emotional intensity on social media.
📄 psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-…
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I am looking to recruit a postdoc to join my lab next fall, & work on 2 projects focused on online mobilization with social media datasets. If anyone knows of someone with computational skills (network analysis, NLP, etc.) who is looking for a postdoc- have them reach out to me.
I'm really excited to announce that I will be joining @UVAPsyc as an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology starting this fall!
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@EricMShuman and I were lucky enough to participate in this impressive effort led by @vlasceanu_mada. Our manipulation, which was intended to elicit hope by showing that collective action works did pretty well (second in belief and policy, ironically lower in action). Well done!
We tested 10 behavioral interventions to mitigate #climatechange in 63 countries (N = 59,440)
The interventions’ effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes:
-Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance (by 2.3%)
-Policy support by writing a letter to a future-generation member (2.6%)
-Information sharing by negative emotion induction (12.1%)
-No intervention increased the more effortful behavior—several interventions even backfired by reducing tree planting!
Our paper is in @ScienceAdvances : science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
It was led by @vlasceanu_mada and @kim_doell and included a massive team of over 250 collaborators from around the world!
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Join us at #SPSP2024 this Saturday at 3:15pm for an important discussion on 'Reactions to Violence & Disruption in Protest Movements.' I'll be presenting alongside @EricMShuman, @reimthyme, and Joseph Phillips @SPSPnews
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🚨New publication with @HazelRoseMarkus in Current Opinion in Psychology:
We ask: How can listening bridge societal divides?
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For any students interested in studying social change this is a great opportunity to work with a fantastic researcher!
I am recruiting Ph.D. students to join our Social Injustice and Social Change group at @UCSBpsych! You still have until December 1 to apply. Application fee waiver are available (for qualified domestic applicants).
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📢 Come work with us! Excited to announce that I will be recruiting a PhD student this cycle @NYUPsych 📢
Interested in identity, group dynamics, politics, language...? in exploring new methods? Check out our website: ashwinia.com & share with interested students👇1/2
Thrilled to see this paper out! It was a pleasure working with Noa, who put in so much hard work to follow activists over 6 weeks to better understand the psychological predictors of sustained collective action, i.e. participating in protests week after week.
🎉 Thrilled to share my first first-author article! We delved into sustained Collective Action (CA), which is repeated participation in a social movement, and found its unique predictors. See the thread for details. (1/9)
doi.org/10.1177/014616722312…
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Really excited to announce that our paper introducing an expanded framework and measure of advantaged identity management has been accepted @ PSPB! You can check out the thread below for more details and find an updated preprint here: tinyurl.com/2uvem5nh
How do members of historically advantaged groups manage that identity? Knowles, et al., 2014 proposed the Deny-Distance-Dismantle framework to answer this question. We develop a measure of this framework and in the process discover some additional D's: psyarxiv.com/6d4qc 1/8
Really excited to share our new paper "When Are Social Protests Effective?", out in @TICS, which introduces a new theoretical framework for evaluating the effectiveness of social protest: tinyurl.com/mr4bd3sc
When organizing past findings with this framework, we find a pattern suggesting that normative nonviolent forms of action may be effective in mobilizing sympathetic audiences, and more disruptive action may be effective at motivating policy concessions from resistant audiences.
I’d like to thank my advisors, @Amit_Goldenb @eranh75_eran, @tamarsaguy, & Martijn van Zomeren for all their help in developing these ideas and their thoughtful work with me on this paper.