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Razieh Pourafshari

@rzhprfshr.bsky.social
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PhD student in Communication. Studying tech habits and time. The Ohio State University

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 10/01/2026
Iran protests latest: Tehran threatens protesters with death penalty as casualties climb
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Iran protests live: Tehran threatens protesters with death penalty as casualties rise
A human rights group says at least 65 people have been killed since demonstrations began on 28 December
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/01/2026
And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷
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Diego Kozlowski @diegokoz.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🧵 1/ 🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask: 👉 Why do some papers cite others? 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/

Abstract

When we empathize with someone going through something, we often draw on our past experiences with the someone and the something. These kinds of experiences ground "thick empathy", a form of empathy that has been largely overlooked in the psychology and neuroscience literature. Consider how a mother, empathizing with her daughter about to give birth, can draw on her own experience of childbirth, and her relationship with her daughter, to deeply grasp what her daughter is going through in a way that others who lack those experiences cannot. I argue that thick empathy deserves more empirical attention because it is associated with well-being and helps us build networks of effective mutual social support. My analysis highlights novel risks and dilemmas posed by "empathy machines" that promise to enhance or even replace human empathy and are becoming increasingly popular as a potential solution to widespread loneliness. Even when empathy machines provide value to individuals, their widespread adoption risks imposing collective emotional and epistemic costs that ultimately make it harder for us to empathize well.

Keywords: empathy, understanding, experience, thick description, ethnography, phenomenal knowledge, interpersonal knowledge, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, chatbots
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Ian Axel Anderson @aanixel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Cool to see our newest work on social media covered by @the-independent.com! www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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You may be scrolling through Instagram out of habit and not addiction
Almost half of teenagers in Britain say they feel addicted to social media
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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
STOKED that our paper on smartphone and spatial habits is out in Scientific Reports! 🎉 Using mobility 🏃 and app 📱 data (27,446,977 logs; 7,226 trip questionnaires) we found that smartphone habits are stronger in habitually traveled and visited spaces 🏡 Personal thread below! rdcu.be/eQ7q0
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Smartphone habits are stronger in spaces chosen out of habit
Scientific Reports - Smartphone habits are stronger in spaces chosen out of habit
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Razieh Pourafshari @rzhprfshr.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The BEST part of my summer! ☀️💙
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Razieh Pourafshari @rzhprfshr.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
One of the things I keep thinking about—even two months after ICA Mobile Preconference—is our workshop on digital disconnection policies. We had to think about kids’ education, ages, and contexts—and we kept circling back to the role of "teachers" who would actually deliver those policies!
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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
LOVING @mqrmobile.bsky.social and @joebayer.bsky.social 's Mobile Top Paper on theorizing affordances of connectivity! @icamobile.bsky.social
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Elisa Baek @elisabaek.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Wrapping up #ica25 with @rzhprfshr.bsky.social presenting our work with @joebayer.bsky.social reviewing the research under the broad umbrella of “social connection”. And perfect timing because the paper was published TODAY at @natrevpsychol.nature.com 🥳 rdcu.be/erayE
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The four conceptualizations of social connection
Nature Reviews Psychology - The term ‘social connection’ is operationalized differently across disparate strands of research. In this Review, Baek et al. highlight four distinct uses of...
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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Excited to share my latest on solitude in @plosone.bsky.social! With Scott Campbell, I leveraged communicate bond belong theory to investigate how different shades of solitude 🚣 balance energy restoration 🔋 and relatedness with others 🫂 for well-being 🙂: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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The tradeoff of solitude? Restoration and relatedness across shades of solitude
Social interaction and solitude entail tradeoffs. Communicate Bond Belong (CBB) theory holds that social interaction can foster relatedness with others at the cost of social energy, whereas solitude c...
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