Ben Sterling

About

Hi! I’m a predoctoral researcher at UT Austin’s Center for Media Engagement, where I investigate how stories circulate through large-scale social data, shaping cross-partisan engagement and cross-cultural norms. Before that, I graduated from Yale in 2025, where I studied computational models of social reasoning and theory of mind with Julian Jara-Ettinger.

Broadly, I’m interested in how minds and groups construct generative stories: how narrative structure guides inference and memory for individuals, and how communicative feedback turns those stories into shared norms.

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Email: benjamin.sterling [at] utexas.edu

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