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A research paper showing that manipulated Facebook content seen by more than 600,000 users was used to determine whether this would affect their emotional state. The paper was published in The Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences. It shows how Facebook data scientists tweaked the algorithm that determines which posts appear on users’ news feeds—specifically, researchers skewed the number of positive or negative terms seen by randomly selected users. Facebook then analyzed the future postings of those users over the course of a week to see if people responded with increased positivity or negativity of their own, thus answering the question of whether emotional states can be transmitted across a social network. Result: They can .....interesting. EXPELLI-BEHAPPY-AMUS https://sugarsync/pf/D6005109_91392187_818216
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 05:37:26 +0000

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