To Facebook, We Are All LAB RATS Facebook routinely adjusts its users’ news feeds — testing out the number of ads they see or the size of photos that appear — often without their knowledge. It is all for the purpose, the company says, of creating a more alluring and useful product. But last week, Facebook…
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Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (RESEARCH)
From the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America *Download the Research Report: “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks” (PDF) Below MASSIVE SCALE EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION SIGNIFICANCE We show, via a massive (N = 689,003) experiment on Facebook, that emotional states can be transferred to others via…