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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🔖 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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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.
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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 out in @nathumbehav.nature.com led by
Kyle Lafollette & Doroteja Rubez.
Challenging the mechanism for the implicit association test (IAT)
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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...
Nature Human Behaviour - Using racing diffusion models to analyse 115,601 implicit association tests across 39 topics, LaFollette et al. found that response caution explained more variance in...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
Nature Human Behaviour - AI mimics empathy well, but does its empathy feel different? The authors show human empathy has unique value: human-attributed responses are rated as more empathic than...
