SERIOUSLY - know this Facebook scientists changed the words in 600,000 users posts to experiment with manipulating emotions. A wise(ish) man once said to me, Facebook, thats the place where you go to manipulate people, isnt it? He was more true than he could ever know. This is why I cant carry on with my job. Someone get me a pen and a piece of paper. hashtag unavoidableirony. researchers skewed the number of positive or negative terms seen by randomly selected users. Facebook then analyzed the future postings of those users over the course of a week to see if people responded with increased positivity or negativity of their own, thus answering the question of whether emotional states can be transmitted across a social network. Result: They can! Which is great news for Facebook data scientists hoping to prove a point about modern psychology. It’s less great for the people having their emotions secretly manipulated. A quick google-based check seems to verify the source and the paper. Alex you are a legend. Good morning. Here is the paper (full text) pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full and the article animalnewyork/2014/facebook-experiment-manipulates-emotions-600000-users/ #education
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 10:15:22 +0000
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