Publications

Martel, F., Moniz, P., Ashokkumar, A., & Swann Jr, W. B. (in press). Identity fusion and support for authoritarianism in the run-up to the US insurrection. Political Psychology. [PDF]

Ashokkumar, A., & Swann, W. B. (2022). Restoring Honor by Slapping or Disowning the Daughter. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(6), 823–836. [PDF]

Ashokkumar, A., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2022). Tracking group identity through natural language within groups. PNAS Nexus, 1(2), pgac022. [PDF]

Tanjitpiyanond, P., Jetten, J., Peters, K., Ashokkumar, A., … Yeung, V. W. (2022). A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(2), 367–382. [PDF]

Boyd, R. L., Ashokkumar, A., Seraj, S., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2022). The Development and Psychometric Properties of LIWC-22. [PDF]

Kennedy, B., Ashokkumar, A., Boyd, R. L., & Dehghani, M. (2022). Text analysis for psychology: Methods, principles, and practices. In M. Dehghani & R. L. Boyd (Eds.), Handbook of language analysis in psychology (pp. 3–62). The Guilford Press. [PDF]

Ashokkumar, A., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2021). Social media conversations reveal large psychological shifts caused by COVID-19’s onset across U.S. cities. Science Advances, 7(39), eabg7843. [PDF]

*Talaifar, S., *Ashokkumar, A., Pennebaker, J. W., Medrano, F. N., Yeager, D. S., & Swann, W. B. (2021). A New Pathway to University Retention? Identity Fusion With University Predicts Retention Independently of Grades. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(1), 108–117. *shared first authorship. [PDF]

Ashokkumar, A., Talaifar, S., Fraser, W. T., Landabur, R., Buhrmester, M., Gómez, Á., Paredes, B., & Swann, W. B. (2020). Censoring political opposition online: Who does it and why. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 91, 104031. [PDF]

Ashokkumar, A., & Swann, W. B. Jr. (2020). The saboteur within: Self-verification strivings can make praise toxic. In E. Brummelman (Ed.), Psychological perspectives on praise. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. [PDF]

Ashokkumar, A., Galaif, M., & Swann, W. B. (2019). Tribalism can corrupt: Why people denounce or protect immoral group members. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103874. [PDF]

Bastian, B., Vauclair, C.-M., Loughnan, S., Bain, P., Ashokkumar, A., Becker, M., … Swann, W. B. (2019). Explaining illness with evil: Pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1914), 20191576. [PDF]