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Make 'Em Laugh

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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How Facebook and Facebook Influence Our Emotions

In real life, i should have a contagious sort of feeling if my mum post something that's upsetting for her. But on the internet, we're emotionally affected both by people we're close to and by people we never even meet. And this could be some russian agent, could be some fraudstrote in igeria. facebook was interested to see if its users were experiencing emotional contagion from the post they read in their news feed. The social media giant designed an experiment to figure out the emotional impact of facebook posts to the subjects. It decided to tweak the news feed algorithm for two different test groups of users. If you were in the positive motion a dition, ou know

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