Therapy 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.

I 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.

Will 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!

🧵 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

🚨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/2311.16831

Paper 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/2412.14414