Reposted by Ashwin RaoScott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 05/12/2025Therapy is a good thing. But mental health influencers position therapy as a prerequisite for a better life, rendering it a Birkin bag for your feelings (i.e., a luxury good) for $200/hour.profgalloway.comThe Cult of Therapy | No Mercy / No Malice“Don’t read the comments,” I tell people, just before I have a drink and … read the comments. I knew my book Notes on Being a Man would spark controversy, as you get the most flak when you’re over the... 1710512
Reposted by Ashwin RaoNina Wang @ninawang.bsky.social · 15/09/2025I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions. 15544
Ashwin Rao @ashwinrao.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Will be presenting my @icwsm.bsky.social paper Polarized Online Discourse on Abortion in Session 5 on Tuesday, June 24 at 1:30PM in Copenhagen🇩🇰 We find - Symmetric spikes in hostility, use of distinct frames and hostility to the out-group frames. Would love to see y’all there or chat after! 010
Reposted by Ashwin RaoPatrick Gerard @patrikgerard.bsky.social · 22/06/2025🧵 Excited to present at @icwsm.bsky.social 2025! In this paper with @kristinalerman.bsky.social, we introduce a novel framework for modeling narrative evolution in streaming text data. Link here: arxiv.org/abs/2409.07684 144
Ashwin Rao @ashwinrao.bsky.social · 28/02/2025While both sides use distinct frames (e.g., liberals on bodily autonomy, conservatives on fetal personhood), each provokes asymmetric hostility from the other. These patterns reinforce polarization and limit mutual understanding. 000
Ashwin Rao @ashwinrao.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Analyzing 3.5M tweets, we examine how ideological divides shape hostility in abortion debates. We find that liberals & conservatives mirror each other’s hostile rhetoric, with spikes around key events. 100
Ashwin Rao @ashwinrao.bsky.social · 28/02/2025🚨Late post: Paper with Anna Chang @qkzhong.bsky.social @kristinalerman.bsky.social and Magdalena Wojcieszak- Polarized Online Discourse on Abortion: Frames and Hostile Expressions among Liberals and Conservatives was accepted to @icwsm.bsky.social ! arxiv.org/pdf/2311.16831arxiv.org 131
Ashwin Rao @ashwinrao.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Paper with @kristinalerman.bsky.social, Buddhika Nettasinghe and Allon Percus accepted at TheWebConf 2025. We quantify affective polarization - in-group favoritism & out-group animosity and how it drives divisions on masking & lockdowns. arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14414arxiv.org 031
