Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms

CE Robertson, KS Del Rosario, JJ Van Bavel - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The current paper explains how modern technology interacts with human psychology to
create a funhouse mirror version of social norms. We argue that norms generated on social …

Disentangling Perceptions of Offensiveness: Cultural and Moral Correlates

A Davani, M Díaz, D Baker, V Prabhakaran - The 2024 ACM Conference …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have seen substantial investments in AI-based tools designed to detect
offensive language at scale, aiming to moderate social media platforms, and ensure safety …

Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity

L Hahn, K Schibler, TA Lattimer, Z Toh… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
How do terrorists persuade otherwise decent citizens to join their violent causes? Guided by
early mass communication research investigating propaganda's efficacy and the model of …

Refining and expanding applications of Moral Foundations Theory in consumer psychology

W Johnson, GA Ramos, EM VanEpps… - Journal of Consumer …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We set forth an agenda for Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) research in consumer
psychology, focusing in particular on four pathways:(1) factoring in multiple identities …

Puritanism needs purity, and moral psychology needs pluralism.

J Graham, M Atari, M Dehghani… - Behavioral & Brain …, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
This account of puritanical morality is useful and innovative, but makes two errors. First, it
mischaracterizes the purity foundation as being unrelated to cooperation. Second, it makes …

Exploring Moral Principles Exhibited in OSS: A Case Study on GitHub Heated Issues

R Ehsani, R Rezapour, P Chatterjee - Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
To foster collaboration and inclusivity in Open Source Software (OSS) projects, it is crucial to
understand and detect patterns of toxic language that may drive contributors away …

Fear and Loathing on the Frontline: Decoding the Language of Othering by Russia-Ukraine War Bloggers

P Gerard, W Theisen, T Weninger, K Lerman - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Othering, the act of portraying outgroups as fundamentally different from the ingroup, often
escalates into framing them as existential threats--fueling intergroup conflict and justifying …

The Functional and Semantic Category of Appeal as a Linguistic Tool in Political Propaganda Texts (in the Example of the English Language)

G Ramberdiyeva, A Dildabekova, Z Abikenova… - International Journal for …, 2024 - Springer
The relevance of the research is defined by the need to create a set of linguistic means,
which would contribute to effective communication with the general public, and the need to …

[PDF][PDF] Ideological Threat Influences Political Prejudice: Evidence from Tweets and Real World Events

How do ideological threats influence people from different political ideologies? Prior work
primarily focuses on the conservative-threat dynamic, but less is known about the …

General Risk Index: A Measure for Predicting Violent Behavior Through Written Communication

L Kaati, A Shrestha, N Akrami - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the most challenging threats to the security of society is attacks from violent lone
offenders. Identifying potential offenders is difficult since they act alone and do not …