106 - Amit Goldenberg: Collective Emotions and Social Media
Stanford Psychology Podcast
The Effect of Homophily on Collective Emotions
The idea was that if we're more likely to attend to a stronger emotional expression of our group, we are more likely to prefer people who would express these views. The general insight as a social media user, I've always noticed that people around me seem to be more extreme than I am. And so you have recently co-authored a paper introducing a separate phenomenon called a cruffly which is just absolutely key in understanding how collective emotions can be shaped.
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