Michael Yeomans

Michael Yeomans is an Assistant Professor in Strategy and Organisational Behaviour at the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School. He holds affiliations with the Artificial Intelligence Network and the Centre for eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). His research focuses on understanding conversational decisions, leveraging natural language processing (NLP) to study high-stakes interactions, conflict expression, and relationship-building dynamics. He has developed open-source R packages such as politeness, doc2concrete, and DICE-M, which analyze linguistic features like politeness, concreteness, and conflict in text. His work spans organizational behavior, social psychology, and computational social science, with applications in education, conflict resolution, and AI ethics.

• Research Interests: Conversational goal frameworks, NLP applications in decision-making, MOOC engagement, and behavioral interventions.
• Software Contributions: Politeness detection, concreteness measurement, and conflict expression tools.
• Affiliations: Imperial College Business School, AI Network, and XAI Centre.

His recent publications address question-asking effects, planning tactics in online learning, and scalable behavioral interventions. His work bridges behavioral science and computational methods, emphasizing practical applications in organizational and educational settings.