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Sacha Altay
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Sacha_Altay
Paris, France
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PhD student studying misinformation from an evolutionary perspective. Science writer in my spare time.
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Sacha Altay
@Sacha_Altay
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30. sij |
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Thanks! We will add the reference :)
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Koenfucius
@koenfucius
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30. sij |
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Why are rumours always coming from a “friend of a friend”? It’s the sweet spot between plausibility and risking our reputation if we claimed it came from a friend (or indeed directly from us) if the rumour turns out false—cool study by @sacha_altay et al: buff.ly/317eu6d pic.twitter.com/tqACGxLFUa
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Hugo Mercier
@hugoreasoning
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28. sij |
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We are good at processing communication 1 The backfire effect is the (rare) exception rather than the rule amazon.com/dp/1108705928/…
h/t @johnmsides
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Hugo Mercier
@hugoreasoning
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28. sij |
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Ch 11 From Circular Reporting to Supernatural Beliefs. When people owe their opinion to the same source, but appear to have formed it independently, they prove more convincing than they should Ft. Nigerien Uranium, the Duna, a friend of a friend, psyarxiv.com/5czka/
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Hugo Mercier
@hugoreasoning
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28. sij |
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Fake news aren’t that big a deal 5 Those who spread fake news pay a hefty reputational price psyarxiv.com/82r6q
With @Sacha_Altay and Anne-Sophie Hacquin
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Hugo Mercier
@hugoreasoning
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28. sij |
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Fake news aren’t that big a deal 1 On the 2019 UK general election “Fewer than 2% of links shared on Twitter during our data collection period were identified as Junk News… Professional News Content constituted over 57% of total traffic.” comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/uk-el…
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Hugo Mercier
@hugoreasoning
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28. sij |
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This time it IS out! Not Born Yesterday, arguing that people aren’t gullible. Psychology! Political science! History! Anthropology! Media studies! ToC below, and threads to follow with stuff I wish I’d put in the book
sites.google.com/site/hugomerci… twitter.com/PascalBoyerUSA…
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Sacha Altay
@Sacha_Altay
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27. sij |
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"there is good evidence that tribalism (ideology) is simply associated with different prior beliefs, which leads to biases and blind spots but not ideologically distorted cognitive processing per se"
Loved @GordPennycook recent commentary on tribalism: osf.io/b8q94/
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Karim N'Diaye
@kndiaye
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26. sij |
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Very interesting paper and thread, by a friend of a friend. twitter.com/Sacha_Altay/st…
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Rolf Degen
@DegenRolf
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26. sij |
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People who spread rumors instinctively invoke "a friend of a friend" as the source of information, which boosts plausibility. psyarxiv.com/5czka/ pic.twitter.com/3mO08Cmis2
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PsyArXiv-bot
@PsyArXivBot
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25. sij |
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It Happened to a Friend of a Friend: Inaccurate Source Reporting in Rumor Diffusion. osf.io/5czka/
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Sacha Altay
@Sacha_Altay
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25. sij |
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(iv) This preference for attributing rumors to a credible friend of a friend may reflect reputation management considerations. Notably by allowing senders to score social points while minimizing their epistemic responsibility in case the rumor turns out to be false.
5/5
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Sacha Altay
@Sacha_Altay
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25. sij |
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(iii) Rumors attributed to a single (not credible) friend dominated linear transmission chains. But ecological transmission chains taking into account redundancy allowed the credible friend of a friend to persist or dominate—as it seems to be the case in the wild.
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Sacha Altay
@Sacha_Altay
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25. sij |
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(ii) Credible friend of a friend attributions remained stable across multiple transmissions, instead of the number of friends mentioned increasing with each transmission, i.e. participants systematically shortened the sources when sharing the rumors.
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Sacha Altay
@Sacha_Altay
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25. sij |
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Key findings:
(i) Attribution to a credible friend of a friend increased a rumor’s perceived plausibility, and participants’ willingness to share it.
2/5
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Sacha Altay
@Sacha_Altay
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25. sij |
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🚨 New preprint with @hugoreasoning & Nicolas Claidière on rumor diffusion 🚨
We explain why so many rumors (like the ones below) are attributed to a credible friend of a friend.
Pre-print: psyarxiv.com/5czka
1/5 pic.twitter.com/dxPuzYBoyU
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Sacha Altay
@Sacha_Altay
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25. sij |
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No but you @patyrossini can probably help you with that :) Tbh I’m not familiar with her work so I can’t recommend the right article to read.
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Sacha Altay
@Sacha_Altay
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24. sij |
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Ed Hagen
@ed_hagen
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24. sij |
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Subrena Smith recently argued that “evolutionary psychology, as it is currently understood, is…impossible.”
Here is my response:
grasshoppermouse.github.io/2020/01/21/is-…
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Sacha Altay
@Sacha_Altay
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24. sij |
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The best talks are not necessarily given by the most prestigious speakers, and are not always on the topics that you’re the most interested in. At #ROPH20 the talk I enjoyed the most was given by @patyrossini on the need to include pragmatic in automatic text analysis.
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