Amit Goldenberg
@Amit_Goldenb
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Assistant professor | @HarvardHBS | @D3Harvard | @PsychHarvard . I study emotions, collectives, technology and their interaction.
Cambridge, MA
Joined July 2015
Can emotion regulation interventions spread from treated to non-treated people in a group?.We examine this question in a paper published in @NatureComms, led by @Michael_Pinus & @Yajun_Cao.
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New paper in Nature Human Behavior (led by @MatanRubin1), where we manipulated the perceived identity of a real-time empathic response to be or AI. We observed a drop in perceived empathy when label was AI, and this effect was mainly driven by emotion.
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RT @mattgroh: When are LLMs-as-judge reliable? . That's a big question for frontier labs and it's a big question for computational social s….
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RT @sydneymlevine: 🔆 I'm hiring! 🔆. There are two open positions:. 1. Summer research position (best for master's or graduate student); foc….
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RT @AyeletLandau: ✨Deadline approaching, June 1st!✨ Apply if you want to investigate brain orchestration in visual (free!) exploration. Yo….
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I'll be giving a talk at the 2025 APS Annual Convention in Washington on the power and limits of AI emotional support, including a story from my glory days as a bellboy (now apparently termed "bellhop"). If you're around and would like to meet, let me know. #APS @PsychScience
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RT @SenSanders: What is happening in Gaza will be a permanent stain on the world's collective conscience. History will never forget how ou….
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RT @sannnnnnnaz: Now out in JPSP (open access paper): ."Lifestyle Polarization on a College Campus: Do Liberals and Conservatives Behave Di….
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So to conclude, we can definitely predict something from the way people walk. Arousal (calm to excited)? Much more likely! Valence – I would need better proof. Good start.
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The mean absolute error of the model after training was 1.11, which means the model was off by about one point on average. This is not bad, or even surprisingly good, especially given that valence results were restricted to a pretty narrow range, but can we predict valence?
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As for the results – it's unclear whether the music impacted emotions in the expected direction (not reported). One thing is clear: the valence scale – which ranged from very negative -1 to very positive 9 – had valence results mostly between 3-9, so no strong negative valence.
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You can already imagine one major issue with the design, which is that different types of music may lead people to walk differently regardless of their emotional state. So are we predicting what music people heard? Or what they felt?.
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The paper asked 20 people to walk while listening to music that was previously validated to elicit different emotions. For example, to elicit high-arousal negative emotions (i.e fear), participants heard music from Dracula or high-wire stunts and lighting was red/yellow shining.
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Can you predict whether people are happy or sad by the way they walk? If we could, that would be pretty fun. This paper claims you can predict both valence (positive negative) and arousal (calm and excited) from footsteps. But, can you? .See 🧵.
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