Amit Goldenberg

Amit Goldenberg

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets
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  • Goldenberg, Amit. "Emotion Dynamics in Groups." Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, February 2021. View Details
  • Goldenberg, Amit. "What Makes Groups Emotional?" University of California, Riverside, February 2021. View Details
  • Goldenberg, Amit. "Amplification in the Evaluation of Emotional Expressions Over Time." Paper presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, May 2021. (Virtual.) View Details
  • "Political Homophily and Acrophily." Paper presented at the Society for Affective Science Annual Conference, Society for Affective Science, April 2021. (Online.) View Details
  • Goldenberg, Amit. "Tie Selection Strategies." Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, February 9–13, 2021. View Details
  • Goldenberg, Amit. "Collective Emotions." Emotions and Strategy: A Multi-Disciplinary Conversation at MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, May 2020. View Details
  • Goldenberg, Amit, and J. J. Gross. "Network Selection Strategies." Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, February 2020. View Details

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Amit Goldenberg is an assistant professor in the Negotiation Organization & Markets unit and a psychologist by training. Professor Goldenberg's research focuses on the role of emotions in social interactions, particularly in the context of social and political issues. 

Professor Goldenberg earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University and an B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  His research has been published in numerous academic journals and popular media outlets including Nature Human Behavior, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and CBS news.

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On Twitter, Bad News Spreads Faster than Good

Want to make a splash on Twitter? You have a better chance of getting noticed by saying something angry or insulting. So concludes a recent study that looked at the impact of both positive and negative tweets from news organizations of various political leanings. They found that, for both right-leaning and left-leaning media, "Negative news spreads farther through the current Twitter network than positive news."

What Prompted Capitol Rioters to Violence?
Amit Goldenberg discusses a new paper he co-authored that looks at the brain architecture commonalities of people who join and participate in extreme political acts.
Don’t Focus on the Most Expressive Face in the Audience
Research has shown that when speaking in front of a group, people’s attention tends to gets stuck on the most emotional faces, causing them to overestimate the group’s average emotional state. In this piece, the authors share two additional findings: First, the larger the group, the greater this attention bias. Second, the attention bias is stronger for faces expressing negative emotions than for faces expressing positive ones, meaning that our ability to judge a group’s emotional state isn’t just skewed towards more intense emotions — it is specifically biased toward more negative evaluations. Based on these findings, the authors suggest that when giving a talk or meeting a large group of people, we should attempt to intentionally scan the audience more evenly in order to counteract our natural attention biases and get a more accurate picture of the group’s overall emotional state.
To Overcome Resistance to DEI, Understand What’s Driving It

Employees often resist DEI initiatives, which of course hinders their effectiveness. The authors — experts in the resistance to social-change efforts — write that the key to overcoming resistance to any effort is figuring out why people are resisting. When it comes to DEI initiatives, they argue, people resist because they experience at least one of three forms of threat: status threat, merit threat, and moral threat. Depending on the kinds of threat they experience, they then tend to engage in three kinds of resistance: defending, denying, and distancing. The authors explain these forms of threat and resistance and then offer suggestions for how to overcome them.

Managing Your Team’s Emotional Dynamic
Collective emotion, when a group of people shares an emotion, is often stronger than a single individual feeling that same emotion alone. So, how can leaders manage emotions, particularly negative ones, from taking over a team? Four strategies from psychology — situation modification, shifting attention or creating distraction, reappraisal, and response modulation — can help bring down the temperature.
Journal Articles
Editorials
Book Chapters
Presentations
  • Goldenberg, Amit. "Emotion Dynamics in Groups." Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, February 2021. View Details
  • Goldenberg, Amit. "What Makes Groups Emotional?" University of California, Riverside, February 2021. View Details
  • Goldenberg, Amit. "Amplification in the Evaluation of Emotional Expressions Over Time." Paper presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, May 2021. (Virtual.) View Details
  • "Political Homophily and Acrophily." Paper presented at the Society for Affective Science Annual Conference, Society for Affective Science, April 2021. (Online.) View Details
  • Goldenberg, Amit. "Tie Selection Strategies." Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, February 9–13, 2021. View Details
  • Goldenberg, Amit. "Collective Emotions." Emotions and Strategy: A Multi-Disciplinary Conversation at MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, May 2020. View Details
  • Goldenberg, Amit, and J. J. Gross. "Network Selection Strategies." Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, February 2020. View Details
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