Publications / Working Papers - THE COMPUTATIONAL CULTURE LAB

PUBLICATIONS

Clement, Julien, and Sarath Balachandran. (forthcoming) “Roadmap or Compass? The Value of Prior Collaborative Experience in an Unfamiliar Task Environment.” Organization Science.

Balachandran, Sarath, and Julien Clement. 2025. “When Mimicry Leads to Divergence: Interdependence Asymmetries and Selective Imitation among Competitors.” Strategic Management Journal. Published online (August 5, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3731.

Chu, James, and Sameer B. Srivastava. 2025. “The Promise and Peril of Generative AI for Organizational Selection and Socialization.” Journal of Organization Design. Published on September 18, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41469-025-00193-5.

Guilbeault, Douglas, Solène Delecourt, and Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan. 2025. “Age and Gender Distortion in Online Media and Large Language Models.” Nature. Advance Online Publication (October 8, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09581-z.

Reschke, Brian P., Julia A. Minson, Hannah Riley Bowles, Mathijs de Vaan, and Sameer B. Srivastava. 2025. “Friends on the Other Side: Receptiveness to Opposing Views Predicts Formation of Politically Heterogeneous Relationships.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Advance Online Publication (June 30, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251346066.

Yang, Lara, Sarayu Anshuman, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. 2025. “Locally Ensconced and Globally Integrated: How Network Cohesion and Range Relate to a Language-Based Model of Group Identification.” American Journal of Sociology 131(1): 149-199.

Goldberg, Amir and Madison H. Singell. 2024. “The Sociology of Interpretation.” Annual Review of Sociology 50: 85–105. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-020321-030515.

Guilbeault, Douglas, Solène Delecourt, Tasker Hull, Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan, Mark Chu, and Ethan Nadler. 2024. “Online Images Amplify Gender Bias.” Nature 626: 1049–1055. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07068-x.

Lu, Richard, Jennifer A. Chatman, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. 2024. “Two-Sided Cultural Fit: The Differing Behavioral Consequences of Cultural Congruence Based on Values Versus Perceptions.” Organization Science 35(1): 71–91. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2023.1659.

Oshotse, Abraham, Yael Berda and Amir Goldberg. 2024. “Cultural Tariffing: Appropriation and the Right to Cross Cultural Boundaries.” American Sociological Review 89(2): 346–390. https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224231225665.

Van Loon, Austin, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. 2024. “Imagined Otherness Fuels Blatant Dehumanization of Outgroups.” Communications Psychology 2: 39. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00087-4.

Clement, Julien. 2023. “Missing the Forest for the Trees: Modular Search and Systemic Inertia as a Response to Environmental Change.” Administrative Science Quarterly 68(1): 186–227. https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392221136267.

Gouvard, Paul, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. 2023. “Doing Organizational Identity: Earnings Surprises and the Performative Atypicality Premium.” Administrative Science Quarterly 68(3): 781–823. https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392231180872.

Guilbeault, Douglas, Austin van Loon, Katharina Lix, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. 2023. “Exposure to the Views of Opposing Others with Latent Cognitive Differences Results in Social Influence--But Only When Those Differences Remain Obscured.” Management Science 70(10): 6669–6684. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.00895.

Vicinanza, Paul, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. 2023. “A Deep Learning Model of Prescient Ideas Demonstrates that They Emerge from the Periphery.” PNAS Nexus 2(1): pgac275. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac275.

Bhatt, Anjali, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. 2022. “A Language-Based Method for Assessing Symbolic Boundary Maintenance between Social Groups.” Sociological Methods & Research 51(4): 1681-1720. https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241221099555.

Lix, Katharina, Amir Goldberg, Sameer B. Srivastava, and Melissa A. Valentine. 2022. “Aligning Differences: Discursive Diversity and Team Performance.” Management Science 68(11): 8430-8448. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.4274.

van Loon, Austin. 2022. “Three Families of Automated Text Analysis.” Social Science Research 108: 102798. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102798.

de Vaan, Mathijs, Saqib Mumtaz, Abhishek Nagaraj, and Sameer B. Srivastava. 2021. “Social Learning in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Community Establishments’ Closure Decisions Follow Those of Nearby Chain Establishments.” Management Science 67(7): 4446-4454. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.4033.

Corritore, Matthew, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. 2020. "Duality in Diversity: How Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Cultural Heterogeneity Relate to Firm Performance." Administrative Science Quarterly 65(2): 359-394. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839219844175.

Schowalter, Kirsten, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. 2020. “Bridging Perspectives on Bridging: A Framework of Social Contexts that Integrates Structural and Cultural Bridging.” Social Networks at Work, edited by D. J. Brass and S.P. Borgatti. New York: Routledge.

Mobasseri, Sanaz, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. 2019. “What is Cultural Fit? From Cognition to Behavior (and Back).” Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology, edited by W. Brekhus and G. Ignatow, Oxford University Press.

Goldberg, Amir and Sarah K. Stein. 2018. "Beyond Social Contagion: Associative Diffusion and the Emergence of Cultural Variation." American Sociological Review 83(5): 897-932. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122418797576.

Srivastava, Sameer B., Amir Goldberg, V. Govind Manian, and Christopher Potts. 2018. “Enculturation Trajectories: Language, Cultural Adaptation, and Individual Outcomes in Organizations.” Management Science 64(3): 1348-1364. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2671.

Doyle, Gabriel, Amir Goldberg, Sameer B. Srivastava, and Michael C. Frank. 2017. “Alignment at Work: Using Language to Distinguish the Internalization and Self-Regulation Components of Cultural Fit in Organizations." In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 603–612. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/P17-1056.

Goldberg, Amir, Michael T. Hannan, and Balázs Kovács. 2016. "What Does It Mean to Span Cultural Boundaries? Variety and Atypicality in Cultural Consumption." American Sociological Review 81(2): 215-241. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122416632787.

Goldberg, Amir, Sameer B. Srivastava, V. Govind Manian, William Monroe, and Christopher Potts. 2016. “Fitting In or Standing Out? The Tradeoffs of Structural and Cultural Embeddedness.” American Sociological Review 81(6): 1190-1222. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122416671873.

Goldberg, Amir. 2011. "Mapping Shared Understandings Using Relational Class Analysis: The Case of the Cultural Omnivore Reexamined." American Journal of Sociology. 116(5): 1397-1436. https://doi.org/10.1086/657976.

Srivastava, Sameer B. and Mahzarin R. Banaji. 2011. “Culture, Cognition, and Collaborative Networks in Organizations.” American Sociological Review. 76(2): 207-233. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122411399390.

WORKING PAPERS

Bhatia, Nandil, Wei Cai, and Sameer B. Srivastava. “Throwing Curveballs: Unpacking Surprising Questions in Evaluative Settings and Probing their Origins.”

Corritore, Matthew. "Weakening Cultural Strength: Environmental Fit, Uncertainty, and Cultural Norm Consensus in Firms."

Li, Danyang, Julien Clement, and Sameer B. Srivastava. “Where are Managers Needed? How Culture and Coordinative Complexity Predict the Evolution of Reporting Relationships in Organizations.”

Yeaton, Matthew, Paul Green, Grace Cormier, Lara Yang, and Sameer B. Srivastava. “Convergence Versus Divergence: How Exposure to Unfamiliar Colleagues Within and Across Network Communities Affects Social Belonging and Network Change.”

Yeaton, Matthew, Sarayu Anshuman, and Sameer B. Srivastava. “From Conflict to Cohesion: Structural Similarity Dampens Uncivil Discourse in Polarized Social Groups.”