One of the biggest insights from my research over the past few years: Groups (not just the individuals within them, but groups as distributed entities) do a remarkable range of things to manage emotion.
See new paper in American Psychologist with Yajun Cao
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Yup
The mean absolute error of the model after training was 1.11, which means the model was off by about one point on average. This is not bad, or even surprisingly good, especially given that valence results were restricted to a pretty narrow range, but can we predict valence? Not sure.
So to conclude, we can definitely predict something from the way people walk. Arousal (calm to excited)? Much more likely! Valence – I would need better proof. But this is a good start.
arxiv.org/pdf/2503.04190
We scrolls about 100 meters a day of social media content, much of it highly emotional. In a new paper led by Jonas Schöne (JPSP) we show that people tend to remember stronger emotional expressions, which leads them to estimate feeds as more emotional.
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🔖 NEW PAPER ALERT 🔖 Out in PNAS – we used equation discovery algorithms to improve models of human reinforcement learning.
Led by the wonderful Kyle Lafollette with an amazing team Yanni Yuval @roeyschurr.bsky.social and @d-melnikoff.bsky.social
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The combination of #artificialintelligence and #socialmedia poses a threat to democracy.
Our new paper explains how AI swarms can fabricate grassroots consensus, fragment shared reality, engage in mass harassment, interfer with elections, and erode institutional trust: osf.io/preprints/os...
New paper in Nature Human Behavior (led by Matan Rubin), where we manipulated the perceived identity of a real-time empathic response to be or AI. We observed a drop in perceived empathy when label was AI, and this effect was mainly driven by emotion.
rdcu.be/et9ad
Totally agree. So much information.
New paper out in @nathumbehav.nature.com led by
Kyle Lafollette & Doroteja Rubez.
Challenging the mechanism for the implicit association test (IAT)
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