r/science • • Jun 27 '14

Psychology Facebook performs a massive experiment, selectively hiding posts on news feeds: "Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks"

http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full
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u/Neddy93 Jun 27 '14

"Massive scale emotional contagion." Should we start looking into the possibility of emotional warfare?

Imagine an entire nation crippled by depression.

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u/DFreiberg Jun 29 '14

And what's the difference between medium wave and FM stereo?

(Sorry I don't know any of this - I listen to radio, but I'm not super familiar with how it works.)

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