Leslie E. Wolf
The idea that emotional states can spread among people without their awareness, known asemotional contagion, has been shown before in laboratory experiments. One study found that lasting moods such as depression and happiness can be transferred via a real-world social network, but the findings have...
Authorities will question Facebook over an experiment in which the social network secretly manipulated the feelings of users to test their mood, officials said Wednesday. Facebook tampered with the system used to create news feeds for 700,000 users to test "emotional contagion" for one week in ...
I am an advocate for building emotional intelligence into our software. But in doing so, we should aim for empathy and compassion, and not the cold, calculating emotional manipulation of the sociopath. And that’s what worries me most about the Facebook experiment. ...
In honor of International Cat Day (Aug 8) we are reposting this KDnuggets cartoon, first published in KDnuggets in 2014. Recent Facebookemotional contagion experimentwhere they manipulated newsfeed and emotions of 700K users, has received a lot ofattentionand backlash. ...
To find if there's a causal relationship, the researchers needed to run an experiment. They found a natural one in rain. Rainy weather, it turns out, reliably changes the tenor of posts – increasing the number of negative posts by 1.16 percent and depressing the number of positive by 1.19...
Emotional Contagion Multiple experimenters have used data from Facebook to study 'emotional contagion', how mood is transferred between friends. It was announced in2014that some research was not merely observational, but involved investigations in manipulating users' moods through the skewing of data pr...
the subjects need to at least know that they are, indeed, part of a test. The subjects of this test on Facebook were not explicitly informed that they were participating in an emotional contagion experiment. Facebook did not obtain informed conse...
They toy with our emotions. I talked about the emotional contagion experiment many years ago on the blog, and you can Google that right that shows up as a real thing they did. They were messing with people’s timelines, eight years ago, and they got basically they admitted to it. ...
We show, via a massive (N = 689,003) experiment on Facebook, that emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, leading people to experience the same emotions without their awareness. We provide experimental evidence that emotional contagion occurs without direct interaction...