Amit Goldenberg

Amit Goldenberg serves as an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he leads research focused on understanding the role of emotions in social interactions. His work spans multiple disciplines including psychology, cognitive science, and computational social science, with particular emphasis on how emotions function within groups and across social networks. As the head of the Goldenberg Lab, he directs a research program examining collective emotional processes and their implications for social behavior and well-being.

Professor Goldenberg's research interests span emotion regulation, collective emotions, and the intersection of technology and social psychology. His work takes a macro approach to understanding emotional processes, examining how emotions spread through groups and networks rather than focusing on individual emotional experiences. He investigates how technologies such as Large Language Models and digital media influence emotional experiences and whether these same technologies can be leveraged to help people manage their emotions more effectively. His research integrates theories from psychology, complex systems, cognitive science, and philosophy, employing a diverse methodological toolkit that includes experimental work, big data analysis, computational modeling, and machine learning.

The publication record of Professor Goldenberg demonstrates a clear trajectory toward increasingly complex investigations of emotion in social contexts. His recent work shows a growing emphasis on computational approaches to understanding emotional processes, with particular attention to how digital environments shape emotional experiences. The research spans fundamental questions about emotional contagion and group emotionality to applied questions about AI-generated empathy and interventions for emotional well-being. A notable trend is the integration of machine learning techniques with traditional psychological methods to analyze large-scale emotional patterns across diverse populations.

Professor Goldenberg actively mentors students and collaborators through the Goldenberg Lab, which maintains an active GitHub presence with numerous repositories supporting research in emotion science, social media analysis, and experimental methodology. The lab's work involves collaborations across multiple institutions and disciplines, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of his research program. The Goldenberg Lab emphasizes rigorous methodology, open science practices, and the development of tools that can be shared with the broader research community.

Through the Goldenberg Lab, Professor Goldenberg oversees projects examining collective emotional responses, emotion regulation across social networks, the impact of social media on emotional well-being, and human-AI emotional interactions. The lab maintains an active GitHub presence with numerous repositories supporting research in emotion science, social media analysis, and experimental methodology. Current projects include investigations into amplification of emotions on social media, emotion regulation contagion, and comparative analyses of human versus AI-generated empathy.