Ashwini Ashokkumar
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ashwini is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard and the director of the WE-search Lab. Ashwini’s work broadly asks how psychological processes related to identity and language help (or harm) the realization of democratic ideals. Her recent work has studied technologically mediated environments to illuminate how identity processes impact political deliberation and discussion, and social cohesion in the digital age. Ashwini was part of the team that built LIWC-22.
Ashwini was previously an Assistant Professor of Psychology at NYU and a postdoctoral fellow at the Polarization and Social Change Lab at Stanford. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021.