University of California

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2014
Facebook experiment shows feasibility of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks

A Facebook experiment conducted with the Cornell and the University of California provides evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Facebook is the subject of a heated debate for a psychological experiment the company has conducted on nearly 700,000 people without their knowledge. The Facebook experiment was carried out in 2012 and was related to the manipulation of content on […]