📢 New paper out in EPJ Data Science!
"Influence of the majority group on individual judgments in online spontaneous conversations" doi.org/10.1140/epjd...
📢 We study how people form and express moral judgments in spontaneous online conversations in light of a revised social normative framework.
🔍 Findings: systematic anti-conformity behavior. Users diverge from the majority stance, increasing persuasive language in their comments.
📊 We (1) measure conversations' disagreement, (2) build a Bayesian model, and (3) perform a linguistic analysis to capture shifts of judgments (and associated motivations) after the majority group's exposure.
We measure disagreement in Reddit conversations and use Bayesian inference to capture shifts in users' judgments after exposure to the most popular opinion!
Special thanks to @dvladek.bsky.social and Alessio Gandelli!
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