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Austin Craig VanLoon
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Austin van Loon is an Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
His primary stream of research investigates the dynamic relationship between culture and identity in the context of intergroup conflict. He explores critical questions such as: How do genuine differences in worldviews contribute to conflict between groups? How does conflict influence groups' perceptions of the world? And how can we structure intergroup interactions to foster cooperative behavior and shared understanding?
In his secondary research stream, Professor van Loon advances the application of artificial intelligence in the social sciences. He focuses on how scientists can leverage methods like machine learning and natural language processing to rigorously develop and test social theory.
Professor van Loon earned his PhD in sociology from Stanford University. He also holds a BS in sociology and a BA in psychology from the University of Iowa.
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Guilbeault, Douglas, Austin van Loon, Katharina Lix, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. Management Science. Forthcoming.
van Loon, Austin, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. Communications Psychology Vol. 2, (2024): 39.
van Loon, Austin. Nature Human Behaviour Vol. 7, (2023): 484-501.
van Loon, Austin and Jeremy Freese. American Behavioral Scientist Vol. 67, No. 2 (2023): 175-200.
van Loon, Austin. Social Science Research Vol. 108, (2022): 102798.
Austin van Loon, Salvatore Giorgi, Robb Willer, and Johannes Eichstaedt. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Atlanta, Georgia: June 2022.