Amir Goldberg

All Publications

• Imagined otherness fuels blatant dehumanization of outgroups. Communications psychology van Loon, A., Goldberg, A., Srivastava, S. B. 2024; 2 (1): 39

  Abstract

  Dehumanization of others has been attributed to institutional processes that spread dehumanizing norms and narratives, as well as to individuals' denial of mind to others. We propose that blatant dehumanization also arises when people actively contemplate others' minds. We introduce the construct of imagined otherness-perceiving that a prototypical member of a social group construes an important facet of the social world in ways that diverge from the way most humans understand it-and argue that such attributions catalyze blatant dehumanization beyond the effects of general perceived difference and group identification. Measuring perceived schematic difference relative to the concept of America, we examine how this measure relates to the tendency of U.S. Republicans and Democrats to blatantly dehumanize members of the other political party. We report the results of two pre-registered studies-one correlational (N = 771) and one experimental (N = 398)-that together lend support for our theory. We discuss implications of these findings for research on social boundaries, political polarization, and the measurement of meaning.

  View details for DOI 10.1038/s44271-024-00087-4

  View details for PubMedID 39242749

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• Cultural Tariffing: Appropriation and the Right to Cross Cultural Boundaries AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW Oshotse, A., Berda, Y., Goldberg, A. 2024

  View details for DOI 10.1177/00031224231225665

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• The Sociology of Interpretation ANNUAL REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY Goldberg, A., Singell, M. H. 2024; 50: 85-105

  View details for DOI 10.1146/annurev-soc-020321-030515

  View details for Web of Science ID 001293207100005

• Exposure to the Views of Opposing Others with Latent Cognitive Differences Results in Social Influence-But Only When Those Differences Remain Obscured MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Guilbeault, D., van Loon, A., Lix, K., Goldberg, A., Srivastava, S. B. 2023

  View details for DOI 10.1287/mnsc.2022.00895

  View details for Web of Science ID 001104105500001

• Doing Organizational Identity: Earnings Surprises and the Performative Atypicality Premium ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY Gouvard, P., Goldberg, A., Srivastava, S. B. 2023

  View details for DOI 10.1177/00018392231180872

  View details for Web of Science ID 001006329600001

• Two-Sided Cultural Fit: The Differing Behavioral Consequences of Cultural Congruence Based on Values Versus Perceptions ORGANIZATION SCIENCE Lu, R., Chatman, J. A., Goldberg, A., Srivastava, S. B. 2023

  View details for DOI 10.1287/orsc.2023.1659

  View details for Web of Science ID 000974178300001

• A deep-learning model of prescient ideas demonstrates that they emerge from the periphery. PNAS nexus Vicinanza, P., Goldberg, A., Srivastava, S. B. 2023; 2 (1): pgac275

  Abstract

  Where do prescient ideas-those that initially challenge conventional assumptions but later achieve widespread acceptance-come from? Although their outcomes in the form of technical innovation are readily observed, the underlying ideas that eventually change the world are often obscured. Here, we develop a novel method that uses deep learning to unearth the markers of prescient ideas from the language used by individuals and groups. Our language-based measure identifies prescient actors and documents that prevailing methods would fail to detect. Applying our model to corpora spanning the disparate worlds of politics, law, and business, we demonstrate that it reliably detects prescient ideas in each domain. Moreover, counter to many prevailing intuitions, prescient ideas emanate from each domain's periphery rather than its core. These findings suggest that the propensity to generate far-sighted ideas may be as much a property of contexts as of individuals.

  View details for DOI 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac275

  View details for PubMedID 36712938

• A Language-Based Method for Assessing Symbolic Boundary Maintenance between Social Groups SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS & RESEARCH Bhatt, A. M., Goldberg, A., Srivastava, S. B. 2022

  View details for DOI 10.1177/00491241221099555

  View details for Web of Science ID 000798695700001

• Aligning Differences: Discursive Diversity and Team Performance MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Lix, K., Goldberg, A., Srivastava, S. B., Valentine, M. A. 2022

  View details for DOI 10.1287/mnsc.2021.4274

  View details for Web of Science ID 000828394000001

• Associative Diffusion and the Pitfalls of Structural Reductionism AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW Goldberg, A. 2021

  View details for DOI 10.1177/00031224211057150

  View details for Web of Science ID 000721504900001

• Duality in Diversity: How Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Cultural Heterogeneity Relate to Firm Performance ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY Corritore, M., Goldberg, A., Srivastava, S. B. 2020; 65 (2): 359–94

  View details for DOI 10.1177/0001839219844175

  View details for Web of Science ID 000528241500006

• THE NEW ANALYTICS OF CULTURE HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW Corritore, M., Goldberg, A., Srivastava, S. B. 2020; 98 (1): 76–83

  View details for Web of Science ID 000504523800010

• Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence (Book Review) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY Book Review Authored by: Goldberg, A. 2019; 125 (1): 312–14

  View details for DOI 10.1086/703455

  View details for Web of Science ID 000472682100030

• Beyond Social Contagion: Associative Diffusion and the Emergence of Cultural Variation AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW Goldberg, A., Stein, S. K. 2018; 83 (5): 897–932

  View details for DOI 10.1177/0003122418797576

  View details for Web of Science ID 000445327000003

• Searching for Homo Economicus: Variation in Americans' Construals of and Attitudes toward Markets ARCHIVES EUROPEENNES DE SOCIOLOGIE DiMaggio, P., Goldberg, A. 2018; 59 (2): 151–89

  View details for DOI 10.1017/S0003975617000558

  View details for Web of Science ID 000444967000001

• Culture out of attitudes: Relationality, population heterogeneity and attitudes toward science and religion in the U.S POETICS DiMaggio, P., Sotoudeh, R., Goldberg, A., Shepherd, H. 2018; 68: 31–51

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.poetic.2017.11.001

  View details for Web of Science ID 000437999600004

• Enculturation Trajectories: Language, Cultural Adaptation, and Individual Outcomes in Organizations MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Srivastava, S. B., Goldberg, A., Manian, V., Potts, C. 2018; 64 (3): 1348–64

  View details for DOI 10.1287/mnsc.2016.2671

  View details for Web of Science ID 000428415600021

• Language as a Window into Culture CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW Srivastava, S. B., Goldberg, A. 2017; 60 (1): 56–69

  View details for DOI 10.1177/0008125617731781

  View details for Web of Science ID 000423270700005

• Spillovers Inside Conglomerates: Incentives and Capital REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES Duchin, R., Goldberg, A., Sosyura, D. 2017; 30 (5): 1696-1743

  View details for DOI 10.1093/rfs/hhw095

  View details for Web of Science ID 000400899900008

• Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville (Book Review) ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY Book Review Authored by: Goldberg, A. 2017; 62 (1): NP6-NP7

  View details for DOI 10.1177/0001839216673312

  View details for Web of Science ID 000394893900004

• Alignment at Work: Using Language to Distinguish the Internalization and Self-Regulation Components of Cultural Fit in Organizations Doyle, G., Goldberg, A., Srivastava, S. B., Frank, M. C., Barzilay, R., Kan, M. Y. ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL. 2017: 603-612

  View details for DOI 10.18653/v1/P17-1056

  View details for Web of Science ID 000493984800056

• Fitting In or Standing Out? The Tradeoffs of Structural and Cultural Embeddedness AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW Goldberg, A., Srivastava, S. B., Manian, V. G., Monroe, W., Potts, C. 2016; 81 (6): 1190-1222

  View details for DOI 10.1177/0003122416671873

  View details for Web of Science ID 000389897700004

• What Does It Mean to Span Cultural Boundaries? Variety and Atypicality in Cultural Consumption AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW Goldberg, A., Hannan, M. T., Kovacs, B. 2016; 81 (2): 215-241

  View details for DOI 10.1177/0003122416632787

  View details for Web of Science ID 000373669500001

• In defense of forensic social science BIG DATA & SOCIETY Goldberg, A. 2015; 2 (2)

  View details for DOI 10.1177/2053951715601145

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• Neither Ideologues nor Agnostics: Alternative Voters' Belief System in an Age of Partisan Politics AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY Baldassarri, D., Goldberg, A. 2014; 120 (1): 45-95

  Abstract

  How do Americans organize their political beliefs? This article argues that party polarization and the growing prominence of moral issues in recent decades have catalyzed different responses by different groups of Americans. The article investigates systematic heterogeneity in the organization of political attitudes using relational class analysis, a graph-based method for detecting multiple patterns of opinion in survey data. Three subpopulations, each characterized by a distinctive way of organizing its political beliefs, are identified: ideologues, whose political attitudes strongly align with either liberal or conservative categories; alternatives, who are instead morally conservative but economically liberal, or vice versa; and agnostics, who exhibit weak associations between political beliefs. Individuals' sociodemographic profiles, particularly their income, education, and religiosity, lie at the core of the different ways in which they understand politics. Results show that while ideologues have gone through a process of issue alignment, alternatives have grown increasingly apart from the political agendas of both parties. The conflictual presence of conservative and liberal preferences has often been resolved by alternative voters in favor of the Republican Party.

  View details for DOI 10.1086/676042

  View details for Web of Science ID 000347235300002

• Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music (Book Review) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY Book Review Authored by: Goldberg, A. 2013; 118 (4): 1145-1147

  View details for DOI 10.1086/668542

  View details for Web of Science ID 000317580100023