Emotion Shapes the Diffusion of Moralized Content in Social Networks¶

Brady, W. J., Wills, J. A., Jost, J. T., Tucker, J. A., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2017). Emotion Shapes the Diffusion of Moralized Content in Social Networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 7313-7318.

Type: Journal article
Intellectual base: Primary research
Year: 2017
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1618923114
Link: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1618923114

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Domain-specific¶

Rage-Baiting
- Research shows that moral-emotional language is associated with increased diffusion and that negative headline wording can causally increase click-through in tested news settings, though those findings establish enabling mechanisms rather than proving every provocative post is intentional rage bait.

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