Select Publications and Working Papers
"Exposure to the Views of Opposing Others with Latent Cognitive Differences Results in Social Influence—But Only When Those Differences Remain Obscured."
Guilbeault, Douglas, Austin van Loon, Katharina Lix, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. Management Science. Forthcoming.
"The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations."
Broska, David, Michael Howes, and Austin van Loon. Sociological Methods and Research. Forthcoming. SSRN Preprint.
"Designing Social Media to Promote Productive Political Dialogue on a New Research Platform."
Topic: Social Media
van Loon, Austin, Srikar Katta, Christopher A. Bail, D. Sunshine Hillygus, and Alexander Volfovsky, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7152-24. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, September 2024.
"Imagined Otherness Fuels Blatant Dehumanization of Outgroups."
van Loon, Austin, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. Communications Psychology Vol. 2, No. 1 (2024).
"Insights into the Accuracy of Social Scientists’ Forecasts of Societal Change."
van Loon, Austin. Nature Human Behaviour Vol. 7, (2023): 484-501.
"Word Embeddings Reveal How Fundamental Sentiments Structure Natural Language."
van Loon, Austin and Jeremy Freese. American Behavioral Scientist Vol. 67, No. 2 (2023): 175-200.
"Three Families of Automated Text Analysis."
van Loon, Austin. Social Science Research Vol. 108, (2022): 102798.
"Regional Negative Bias in Word Embeddings Predicts Racial Animus—But Only Via Name Frequency."
van Loon, Austin, Salvatore Giorgi, Robb Willer, and Johannes Eichstaedt, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7090-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, January 2022.
"Measuring the Predictability of Life Outcomes with a Scientific Mass Collaboration."
Matthew Salganik, Ian Lundberg, Alex Kindel, Austin van Loon, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 117, No. 15 (2020): 8398-8403.
Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting Since 1880.
Yates, JoAnne and Craig N. Murphy. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2019.
"Virtual Reality Perspective-taking Increases Cognitive Empathy for Specific Others."
van Loon, Austin, Jeremy Bailenson, Jamil Zaki, Joshua Bostick, and Robb Willer. PLoS ONE Vol. 13, No. 8 (2018): e0202442.
"Analyzing productive learning behaviors for students using immediate corrective feedback in a blended learning environment."
Chen, Xin, Lori Breslow, and Jennifer DeBoer. Computers & Education Vol. 117, (2018): 59-74.
Strengthening Teaching and Learning in Research Universities: Strategies and Initiatives for Institutional Change.
Stensaker, Bjørn, Grahame T. Bilbow, Lori Breslow, and Robert van der Vaart (Eds.). London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Social Media Management: Persuasion in Networked Culture.
Shields, Ben. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016.