One way to deal with hate on social media is top-down moderation. Another option is counter speech, the collective moderation by citizens. A study of German Twitter from 2015–2019 identifies effective counter speech strategies—including sarcasm. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/csZK50XGteK

@uni-graz.at featured our brand-new article on collective moderation of online spaces published in @pnasnexus.org 🥳 Wanna read what citizen-based strategies can be a remedy against online hate? Click here: ow.ly/csZK50XGteK @janalasser.bsky.social @aroyehuns.bsky.social @dgarcia.eu

I graduated 🎓🥳 Rewatch my talk on "Computational Approaches to Human Behavior" where I introduce two of my works on emotion regulation and hate speech. 📺 Watch the video: youtu.be/-bh6McTZN4U?... 📘 View the slides & thesis: cloud.uni-graz.at/s/p3STMtKGPMdq

Are you interested to dive deeper into bridging #psychology and natural language processing #nlproc? We are organizing a new workshop (collocated with icwsm.org in Copenhagen, taking place on June 23. Paper deadline is March 21st. More information: nlpsi-workshop.github.io

Which celebrities are the most popular and unpopular on social media? We are working on a new Holiday Paper Series article on that!

We are changing to a Summer schedule for the HPS. On the meantime, here is a teaser for Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Britney Spears: dgarcia.eu/CSS_Holiday_...

I went to the Museum of Modern Art today and other than enjoying the beautiful paintings and installations from real artists, I followed their instructions to create a poster with a message for my community in their creativity lab 🙃 Enjoy!

First paper from our lab on LLMs and emotional support (led by @joannazli): Skill but not effort drive GPT overperformance over humans in cognitive reframing of negative scenarios.

Short thread of the results 1/7
 
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#Psychology #AcademicSky #SocialPsyc

I presented at the conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), San Diego. Thanks everyone for your great interest! If you want to know more about constructing data-driven taxonomies using computational methods visit hai-lina.github.io. #SPSP2024

In case you were wondering where I am currently spending my research time: I am happy to be part of Harvard's Digital Emotions Lab @Harvard's D3 led by Amit Goldenberg. Check it out: www.amitgoldenberg.com Great people and researchers 🤗