Mike Yeomans

@OlgaStoddard Eg mikeyeomans.info/papers/recepti…

@OlgaStoddard Are you sure you want sentiment? There's a lot more to social interaction than positivity. I think politeness features of dialogue might be more useful, as they capture how people treat each other

🚨 Seeking guidance on quantifying the tone of emails. Currently using a continuous score from RoBERTa 3-sentiment model (a transformer-based pre-trained language model) and human-RA labels. Details below. TIA for your leads!

3️⃣ That impoliteness is consequential. In a follow-up experiment, we used seller responses from these real-world negotiations & found that incivility discouraged future negotiations, illustrating how demand-side biases can lead to supply-side differences in negotiation propensity

linkedin.com/posts/mgt-sci_… Great write-up of our recent management science paper on workplace development. Bottom line - focus on the future, not the past, to give and receive more helpful advice!

It’s always “Hello World”, but never “How are you World?”

TODAY: come to our panel exploring organizations through language, starting 1:45PM! We'll be in Bella Center B4-m10 (right next to Entrance 1); on the maps, we're co-listed with B4-m9. See you soon!

@xemilyhu @AOMConnect @daveholtz @william__brady Happening today! Come stop by and finish your AOM with some fascinating work using NLP to study text data in organisations

If you’re at @AOMConnect #aom2025, come check out our panel on NLP in organizations, featuring @daveholtz, Sameer Srivastava, @william__brady, @emyeom & me! Our symposium presents four perspectives of exploring organizational behavior through language💬 7/29 @ B4-m10, 1:45pm!

We'll be talking about advice, feedback, and conversations. If you're at #IACM2025, then check out our symposium this coming Monday! @iacm_conflict (🧵)

How to strike up a friendly conversation psyche.co/guides/how-to-… New Psyche Guide by @emyeom. It can be awkward at first, but there are specific methods you can use to spark an enjoyable chat with just about anyone

Harvard Derangement Syndrome | My new essay in the New York Times nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opi…

🚨New Preprint (wish it were less timely)🚨 We map everyday behavioral patterns of authoritarians using smartphone data, providing an updated portrait of authoritarianism in the digital age. w/ @timokoch_, Clemens Stachl, Ramona Schoedel, @Da_Racek etc osf.io/preprints/psya…

🚨PhD alert! In light of everything happening in the world, the Econ Department at @ImperialBiz is conducting a second lightning round of admissions for fall 2025! Applications due April 30, offers in mid-May. Please spread the word! More details: dropbox.com/scl/fi/55wkl2q…

Are you guilty of 'Boomerasking'? A new study from @HarvardHBS and Michael Yeomans [@emyeom] explores "boomerasking" - when someone asks a question just to steer the conversation back to themselves. 🤔 💬 Read more in the @guardian 👇 imprl.biz/3DObN1z

@AgnesCallard Thanks for the shout out! We have a paper on spoken conversations (with similar findings) coming soon. Loved your book talk in London last week btw :)

though the research in this paper was (unfortunately) based exclusively on written, not spoken, interactions

We are good at detecting open-mindedness in others and bad at detecting it in ourselves, so if you want to know whether someone is open-minded, don't ask them, ask their conversational partners.

@jayvanbavel @NatRevPsych @stfeuerriegel Good review of modern LLM tools, esp focus on validation! To be fair, you cover some, but not all the ways - lots of good work out there using NLP in distinct ways for dialogue data, see e.g. here mikeyeomans.info/papers/PGCR_ye…

We have a new paper explaining all the ways you can use natural language processing to analyze text data in @NatRevPsych We provide user friendly recommendations for using NLP to ensure rigour and reproducibility Free link: nature.com/articles/s4415… Led by @stfeuerriegel

Effective conversations aren’t just ones that leave people feeling connected and happy. Research by Drs. @JuliaMinson and @emyeom finds moments of conflict can lead to growth, understanding, and stronger relationships: at.apa.org/vgo

Gino's case against us has been dismissed. Scientists cannot effectively sue other scientists for exposing fraud/errors in their work. Those who work to correct the scientific record can sleep better tonight. Those who don’t want it corrected, well, I don’t care how they sleep.

BREAKING! @FrancescaGino's ridiculous defamation lawsuit against @DataColada from last year has been dismissed by the court! This is an important victory.. if this had been allowed to move forward it would have had a chilling effect on whistleblowers! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…