M Keuschnigg
Biographic Data
| ID | 30533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Keuschnigg |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Keuschnigg |
| SIGNATURE | KEUSCHNIGG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5774-1553 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The structural origins of the conservative online media niche, US Twitter 2022
We investigate why conservative online news media are often seen as niche, whereas liberal outlets have ideologically broader audiences. We examine two explanatory mechanisms for this asymmetry. The behavioral explanation focuses on differences in homophily, where one ideological camp would be exposed to more cross-cutting content due to more diverse networking preferences. The structural explanation highlights how a platform’s user base places s…
Computational Text Analysis for Building and Testing Social Theory
Digitization and advances in natural language processing have transformed how sociologists can measure, model, and interpret social life through text. We provide an overview of computational text analysis as a methodological tool kit for building and testing social theory. The field is moving from descriptive uses toward theory-driven and causal inference approaches, though methodological standards—especially around data quality, reproducibility,…
Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data
Social-influence processes not only affect the rate at which behaviors spread but can also decouple adoption behavior from individual preferences, and thereby bring about unexpected collective outcomes that cannot be predicted on the basis of the initial likes and dislikes of the individuals involved. However, the conditions under which social influence can lead to such decoupling are not well understood. We identify a social-influence mechanism …
On the Intersection of Analytical Sociology and Computational Social Science
Analytical sociology is concerned with mechanism-based explanations of collective phenomena in socially interdependent systems. Social interdependencies make identifying the processes that generate collective outcomes a challenging task, however, and their study typically requires research designs that differ from those traditionally used by sociologists. The availability of time-stamped networked datasets, the rapid progress in computational pow…
Seeded Topic Models in Digital Archives: Analyzing Interpretations of Immigration in Swedish Newspapers, 1945-2019
Sociologists are discussing the need for more formal ways to extract meaning from digital text archives. We focus attention on the seeded topic model, a semi-supervised extension to the standard topic model that allows sociological knowledge to be infused into the computational learning of meaning structures. Seed words help crystallize topics around known concepts, while utilizing topic models' functionality to identify associations in text base…
Urban scaling laws arise from within-city inequalities
Theories of urban scaling have demonstrated remarkable predictive accuracy at aggregate levels. However, they have overlooked the stark inequalities that exist within cities. Human networking and productivity exhibit heavy-tailed distributions, with some individuals contributing disproportionately to city totals. Here we use micro-level data from Europe and the United States on interconnectivity, productivity and innovation in cities. We find tha…
The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners
Are the best-paying jobs with the highest prestige done by individuals of great intelligence? Past studies find job success to increase with cognitive ability, but do not examine how, conversely, ability varies with job success. Stratification theories suggest that social background and cumulative advantage dominate cognitive ability as determinants of high occupational success. This leads us to hypothesize that among the relatively successful, a…
On the Transportability of Laboratory Results
The 'transportability' of laboratory findings to other instances than the original implementation entails the robustness of rates of observed behaviors and estimated treatment effects to changes in the specific research setting and in the sample under study. In four studies based on incentivized games of fairness, trust, and reciprocity, we evaluate (1) the sensitivity of laboratory results to locally recruited student-subject pools, (2) the comp…
Bounded Solidarity in Cross-National Encounters: Individuals Share More with Others from Poor Countries but Trust Them Less
Globalization makes cross-national encounters increasingly common. Hesitant cooperation across national, ethnic, and cultural boundaries, however, undercuts the microlevel stabilizers of global integration and, most importantly, the willingness to share with and place trust in members of other social groups. In a 109-country online experiment, we convey information on interaction partners' nationalities to indicate membership in a broader in- or …
Robert K. Merton: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy/The Matthew Effect in Science
Is Category Spanning Truly Disadvantageous? New Evidence from Primary and Secondary Movie Markets
Genre assignments help audiences make sense of new releases. Studies from a wide range of market contexts have shown that generalists defying clear mapping to established categories suffer penalties in market legitimacy, perceived quality, or audience attention. We introduce an empirical strategy to disentangle two mechanisms, reduced niche fitness and audience confusion, causing devaluation or ignorance of boundary-crossing offers. Our data on 2…
Analytical sociology and computational social science
Analytical sociology focuses on social interactions among individuals and the hard-to-predict aggregate outcomes they bring about. It seeks to identify generalizable mechanisms giving rise to emergent properties of social systems which, in turn, feed back on individual decision-making. This research program benefits from computational tools such as agent-based simulations, machine learning, and large-scale web experiments, and has considerable ov…
The Use of Field Experiments to Study Mechanisms of Discrimination
This paper discusses social mechanisms of discrimination and reviews existing field experimental designs for their identification. We first explicate two social mechanisms proposed in the literature, animus-driven and statistical discrimination, to explain differential treatment based on ascriptive characteristics. We then present common approaches to study discrimination based on observational data and laboratory experiments, discuss their stren…
Using crowdsourced online experiments to study context-dependency of behavior
Disorder, social capital, and norm violation: Three field experiments on the broken windows thesis
Adding to the debate about the "broken windows" thesis we discuss an explanation of minor norm violation based on the assumption that individuals infer expected sanctioning probabilities from contextual cues. We modify the classical framework of rational crime by signals of disorder, local social control, and their interaction. Testing our implications we present results from three field experiments showing that violations of norms, which prevent…
Product success in cultural markets: The mediating role of familiarity, peers, and experts
Needs, Comparisons, and Adaptation: The Importance of Relative Income for Life Satisfaction
We examine the association between income and life satisfaction. Referring to the so-called Easterlin paradox, three mechanisms are discussed: basic human need satisfaction, interpersonal comparison processes, and adaptation. Hypotheses resulting from these considerations are empirically tested on the basis of two data sets: a self conducted cross-sectional survey among the population of Munich and GSOEP panel data. In result, all three mechanism…
Das Bestseller-Phänomen
Konzentration der Nachfrage erzeugt in einigen Märkten extreme Erfolgsungleichheiten, dazu zählen insbesondere Kulturmärkte. Marc Keuschnigg untersucht Konsumentenverhalten im Buchmarkt und führt extreme Marktergebnisse mit vielen Misserfolgen und einigen Bestsellern auf Konformität unter Käufern zurück. Die präsentierten Erklärungsmodelle und deren empirische Prüfung erlauben Rückschlüsse auf die Entstehungsweise von Bestsellern und geben Hinwei…
Reich und zufrieden? Theorie und Empirie zur Beziehung von Wohlstand und Lebenszufriedenheit
Konformität durch Herdenverhalten: Theorie und Empirie zur Entstehung von Bestsellern
Needs, Comparisons, and Adaptation: The Importance of Relative Income for Life Satisfaction
We examine the association between income and life satisfaction. Referring to the so-called Easterlin paradox, three mechanisms are discussed: basic human need satisfaction, interpersonal comparison processes, and adaptation. Hypotheses resulting from these considerations are empirically tested on the basis of two data sets: a self conducted cross-sectional survey among the population of Munich and GSOEP panel data. In result, all three mechanism…
Analytical sociology and computational social science
Analytical sociology focuses on social interactions among individuals and the hard-to-predict aggregate outcomes they bring about. It seeks to identify generalizable mechanisms giving rise to emergent properties of social systems which, in turn, feed back on individual decision-making. This research program benefits from computational tools such as agent-based simulations, machine learning, and large-scale web experiments, and has considerable ov…
Disorder, social capital, and norm violation: Three field experiments on the broken windows thesis
Adding to the debate about the "broken windows" thesis we discuss an explanation of minor norm violation based on the assumption that individuals infer expected sanctioning probabilities from contextual cues. We modify the classical framework of rational crime by signals of disorder, local social control, and their interaction. Testing our implications we present results from three field experiments showing that violations of norms, which prevent…
Product success in cultural markets: The mediating role of familiarity, peers, and experts
The Use of Field Experiments to Study Mechanisms of Discrimination
This paper discusses social mechanisms of discrimination and reviews existing field experimental designs for their identification. We first explicate two social mechanisms proposed in the literature, animus-driven and statistical discrimination, to explain differential treatment based on ascriptive characteristics. We then present common approaches to study discrimination based on observational data and laboratory experiments, discuss their stren…
Urban scaling laws arise from within-city inequalities
Theories of urban scaling have demonstrated remarkable predictive accuracy at aggregate levels. However, they have overlooked the stark inequalities that exist within cities. Human networking and productivity exhibit heavy-tailed distributions, with some individuals contributing disproportionately to city totals. Here we use micro-level data from Europe and the United States on interconnectivity, productivity and innovation in cities. We find tha…
On the Transportability of Laboratory Results
The 'transportability' of laboratory findings to other instances than the original implementation entails the robustness of rates of observed behaviors and estimated treatment effects to changes in the specific research setting and in the sample under study. In four studies based on incentivized games of fairness, trust, and reciprocity, we evaluate (1) the sensitivity of laboratory results to locally recruited student-subject pools, (2) the comp…
Konformität durch Herdenverhalten: Theorie und Empirie zur Entstehung von Bestsellern
Bounded Solidarity in Cross-National Encounters: Individuals Share More with Others from Poor Countries but Trust Them Less
Globalization makes cross-national encounters increasingly common. Hesitant cooperation across national, ethnic, and cultural boundaries, however, undercuts the microlevel stabilizers of global integration and, most importantly, the willingness to share with and place trust in members of other social groups. In a 109-country online experiment, we convey information on interaction partners' nationalities to indicate membership in a broader in- or …
Using crowdsourced online experiments to study context-dependency of behavior
Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data
Social-influence processes not only affect the rate at which behaviors spread but can also decouple adoption behavior from individual preferences, and thereby bring about unexpected collective outcomes that cannot be predicted on the basis of the initial likes and dislikes of the individuals involved. However, the conditions under which social influence can lead to such decoupling are not well understood. We identify a social-influence mechanism …
Seeded Topic Models in Digital Archives: Analyzing Interpretations of Immigration in Swedish Newspapers, 1945-2019
Sociologists are discussing the need for more formal ways to extract meaning from digital text archives. We focus attention on the seeded topic model, a semi-supervised extension to the standard topic model that allows sociological knowledge to be infused into the computational learning of meaning structures. Seed words help crystallize topics around known concepts, while utilizing topic models' functionality to identify associations in text base…
The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners
Are the best-paying jobs with the highest prestige done by individuals of great intelligence? Past studies find job success to increase with cognitive ability, but do not examine how, conversely, ability varies with job success. Stratification theories suggest that social background and cumulative advantage dominate cognitive ability as determinants of high occupational success. This leads us to hypothesize that among the relatively successful, a…
Das Bestseller-Phänomen
Konzentration der Nachfrage erzeugt in einigen Märkten extreme Erfolgsungleichheiten, dazu zählen insbesondere Kulturmärkte. Marc Keuschnigg untersucht Konsumentenverhalten im Buchmarkt und führt extreme Marktergebnisse mit vielen Misserfolgen und einigen Bestsellern auf Konformität unter Käufern zurück. Die präsentierten Erklärungsmodelle und deren empirische Prüfung erlauben Rückschlüsse auf die Entstehungsweise von Bestsellern und geben Hinwei…
Reich und zufrieden? Theorie und Empirie zur Beziehung von Wohlstand und Lebenszufriedenheit
Konformität durch Herdenverhalten: Theorie und Empirie zur Entstehung von Bestsellern
Needs, Comparisons, and Adaptation: The Importance of Relative Income for Life Satisfaction
We examine the association between income and life satisfaction. Referring to the so-called Easterlin paradox, three mechanisms are discussed: basic human need satisfaction, interpersonal comparison processes, and adaptation. Hypotheses resulting from these considerations are empirically tested on the basis of two data sets: a self conducted cross-sectional survey among the population of Munich and GSOEP panel data. In result, all three mechanism…
Disorder, social capital, and norm violation: Three field experiments on the broken windows thesis
Adding to the debate about the "broken windows" thesis we discuss an explanation of minor norm violation based on the assumption that individuals infer expected sanctioning probabilities from contextual cues. We modify the classical framework of rational crime by signals of disorder, local social control, and their interaction. Testing our implications we present results from three field experiments showing that violations of norms, which prevent…
Product success in cultural markets: The mediating role of familiarity, peers, and experts
The Use of Field Experiments to Study Mechanisms of Discrimination
This paper discusses social mechanisms of discrimination and reviews existing field experimental designs for their identification. We first explicate two social mechanisms proposed in the literature, animus-driven and statistical discrimination, to explain differential treatment based on ascriptive characteristics. We then present common approaches to study discrimination based on observational data and laboratory experiments, discuss their stren…
Using crowdsourced online experiments to study context-dependency of behavior
Robert K. Merton: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy/The Matthew Effect in Science
Is Category Spanning Truly Disadvantageous? New Evidence from Primary and Secondary Movie Markets
Genre assignments help audiences make sense of new releases. Studies from a wide range of market contexts have shown that generalists defying clear mapping to established categories suffer penalties in market legitimacy, perceived quality, or audience attention. We introduce an empirical strategy to disentangle two mechanisms, reduced niche fitness and audience confusion, causing devaluation or ignorance of boundary-crossing offers. Our data on 2…
Analytical sociology and computational social science
Analytical sociology focuses on social interactions among individuals and the hard-to-predict aggregate outcomes they bring about. It seeks to identify generalizable mechanisms giving rise to emergent properties of social systems which, in turn, feed back on individual decision-making. This research program benefits from computational tools such as agent-based simulations, machine learning, and large-scale web experiments, and has considerable ov…
Bounded Solidarity in Cross-National Encounters: Individuals Share More with Others from Poor Countries but Trust Them Less
Globalization makes cross-national encounters increasingly common. Hesitant cooperation across national, ethnic, and cultural boundaries, however, undercuts the microlevel stabilizers of global integration and, most importantly, the willingness to share with and place trust in members of other social groups. In a 109-country online experiment, we convey information on interaction partners' nationalities to indicate membership in a broader in- or …
On the Transportability of Laboratory Results
The 'transportability' of laboratory findings to other instances than the original implementation entails the robustness of rates of observed behaviors and estimated treatment effects to changes in the specific research setting and in the sample under study. In four studies based on incentivized games of fairness, trust, and reciprocity, we evaluate (1) the sensitivity of laboratory results to locally recruited student-subject pools, (2) the comp…
Urban scaling laws arise from within-city inequalities
Theories of urban scaling have demonstrated remarkable predictive accuracy at aggregate levels. However, they have overlooked the stark inequalities that exist within cities. Human networking and productivity exhibit heavy-tailed distributions, with some individuals contributing disproportionately to city totals. Here we use micro-level data from Europe and the United States on interconnectivity, productivity and innovation in cities. We find tha…
The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners
Are the best-paying jobs with the highest prestige done by individuals of great intelligence? Past studies find job success to increase with cognitive ability, but do not examine how, conversely, ability varies with job success. Stratification theories suggest that social background and cumulative advantage dominate cognitive ability as determinants of high occupational success. This leads us to hypothesize that among the relatively successful, a…
On the Intersection of Analytical Sociology and Computational Social Science
Analytical sociology is concerned with mechanism-based explanations of collective phenomena in socially interdependent systems. Social interdependencies make identifying the processes that generate collective outcomes a challenging task, however, and their study typically requires research designs that differ from those traditionally used by sociologists. The availability of time-stamped networked datasets, the rapid progress in computational pow…
Seeded Topic Models in Digital Archives: Analyzing Interpretations of Immigration in Swedish Newspapers, 1945-2019
Sociologists are discussing the need for more formal ways to extract meaning from digital text archives. We focus attention on the seeded topic model, a semi-supervised extension to the standard topic model that allows sociological knowledge to be infused into the computational learning of meaning structures. Seed words help crystallize topics around known concepts, while utilizing topic models' functionality to identify associations in text base…
Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data
Social-influence processes not only affect the rate at which behaviors spread but can also decouple adoption behavior from individual preferences, and thereby bring about unexpected collective outcomes that cannot be predicted on the basis of the initial likes and dislikes of the individuals involved. However, the conditions under which social influence can lead to such decoupling are not well understood. We identify a social-influence mechanism …
The structural origins of the conservative online media niche, US Twitter 2022
We investigate why conservative online news media are often seen as niche, whereas liberal outlets have ideologically broader audiences. We examine two explanatory mechanisms for this asymmetry. The behavioral explanation focuses on differences in homophily, where one ideological camp would be exposed to more cross-cutting content due to more diverse networking preferences. The structural explanation highlights how a platform’s user base places s…
Computational Text Analysis for Building and Testing Social Theory
Digitization and advances in natural language processing have transformed how sociologists can measure, model, and interpret social life through text. We provide an overview of computational text analysis as a methodological tool kit for building and testing social theory. The field is moving from descriptive uses toward theory-driven and causal inference approaches, though methodological standards—especially around data quality, reproducibility,…
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