The rippling dynamics of valenced messages in naturalistic youth chat
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Behavior Research Methods ; 51 (2019), 4. - pp. 1737-1753. - ISSN 1554-351X. - eISSN 1554-3528
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Even though human behavior is largely driven by real-time feedback from others, this social complexity is underrepresented in psychological theory, largely because it is so difficult to isolate. In this work, we performed a quasi-experimental analysis of hundreds of millions of chat room messages between young people. This allowed us to reconstruct how-and on what timeline-the valence of one message affects the valence of subsequent messages by others. For the highly emotionally valenced chat messages that we focused on, we found that these messages elicited a general increase of 0.1 to 0.4 messages per minute. This influence started 2 s after the original message and continued out to 60 s. Expanding our focus to include feedback loops-the way a speaker's chat comes back to affect him or her-we found that the stimulating effects of these same chat events started rippling back from others 8 s after the original message, to cause an increase in the speaker's chat that persisted for up to 8 min. This feedback accounted for at least 1% of the bulk of chat. Additionally, a message's valence affects its dynamics, with negative events feeding back more slowly and continuing to affect the speaker longer. By reconstructing the second-by-second dynamics of many psychosocial processes in aggregate, we captured the timescales at which they collectively ripple through a social system to drive system-level outcomes.
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FREY, Seth, Karsten DONNAY, Dirk HELBING, Robert W SUMNER, Maarten W BOS, 2019. The rippling dynamics of valenced messages in naturalistic youth chat. In: Behavior Research Methods. 51(4), pp. 1737-1753. ISSN 1554-351X. eISSN 1554-3528. Available under: doi: 10.3758/s13428-018-1140-6BibTex
@article{Frey2019-08rippl-45177, year={2019}, doi={10.3758/s13428-018-1140-6}, title={The rippling dynamics of valenced messages in naturalistic youth chat}, number={4}, volume={51}, issn={1554-351X}, journal={Behavior Research Methods}, pages={1737--1753}, author={Frey, Seth and Donnay, Karsten and Helbing, Dirk and Sumner, Robert W and Bos, Maarten W} }
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