The experiment itself hasgenerated a lot of controversyrelated to the ethics doing these kind of emotional experiments on so many people, and with out their knowledge or consent. The main researcher at Facebook has evenapologized in a public post. ...
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 ...
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If anything, the study probably underestimates how much emotion spreads through a digital social network. "It is possible that emotional contagion online is even stronger than we were able to measure," Fowler said. "For our analysis, to get away from measuring the effect of the rain itself, ...
In 2014,Matt Honan, ajournalistforWiredmagazine notes the effects of an experiment he tried out - "liking"everythingwhich Facebook served up to him for 48 hours.[37] Factchecking In July 2021, Facebook announced a partnership withLogically, a UK-basedfact checkerthat usesartificial intelligence...
In a different study, Machiavellianism was found to predict personal linguistic style accommodation in interpersonal communication for self-serving purposes: highly Machiavellian individuals, when placed in a less powerful social role within an experiment, were more likely to change their linguistic style ...
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To determine whether the strategies used by webcare agents have the desired effect, it would be useful to conduct a scenario-based experiment in which different response strategies are compared with respect to the impact that they have on customer emotions. Finally, we suspect, based on the data...
We surveyed 3,539 workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to gauge their response to five scenarios describing scientific experiments---including one scenario based on Facebook's emotional contagion experiment. Respondents who reported being already aware of Facebook's experiment responded very differently ...