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Viral altruism? : generosity and social contagion in online networks

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mele, Angelo - 2014

's contacts. However, results from a field experiment where broadcasting of the initial pledges was randomized suggest that the … observational findings were likely due to homophily rather than genuine social contagion effects. The experiment also shows that … (30 out of 6.4 million users reached) were made. Finally, an online survey experiment showed that both the presence of an …

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Do they find you on Facebook? : Facebook profile picture and hiring chances

Baert, Stijn - 2015

decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in …

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Civility and trust in social media

Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018

the environment of social networking sites hostile to many users. We conduct a novel experiment in a Facebook setting to …

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The behavioral, economic, and political impact of the internet and social media : empirical challenges and approaches

Sabatini, Fabio - 2023

This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...

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Daily use of social media is associated with more body dissatisfaction of teenage girls in a large cross-cultural survey

Napp, Clotilde; Breda, Thomas - 2022

Most teenagers spend several hours per day on social media. We provide a large-scale investigation of the relationship between social media daily usage and body dissatisfaction among a sample of more than 50,000 15 y.o. students. This relation is positive and large for girls - higher use of...

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Social media charity campaigns and pro-social behaviour : evidence from the Ice Bucket Challenge

Fazio, Andrea; Reggiani, Tommaso; Scervini, Francesco - 2023

Social media use plays an important role in shaping individuals' social attitudes and economic behaviours. One of the first well-known examples of social media campaigns is the Ice Bucket Challenge (IBC), a charity campaign that went viral on social media networks in August 2014, aiming to...

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Large losses from little lies: randomly assigned opportunity to misrepresent substantially lowers later cooperation and worsens income inequality

Drouvelis, Michalis; Gerson, Jennifer; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020

Social media has made anonymized behavior online a prevalent part of many people's daily interactions. The implications of this new ability to hide one's identity information remain imperfectly understood. Might it be corrosive to human cooperation? This paper investigates the possibility that a...

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Narratives of migration and political polarization : private preferences, public preferences and social media

Levi, Eugenio; Bayerlein, Michael; Grimalda, Gianluca; … - 2025

the left and center, avoided publicly endorsing anti-migration narratives. In an experiment on Twitter (n=19,989) we …

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Diffusion in social networks : experimental evidence on information sharing vs persuasion

Fafchamps, Marcel; Islam, Asad; Pakrashi, Debayan; … - 2024

We conduct a clustered randomized controlled trial across 180 villages in Uttar Pradesh, India, to promote the take-up of a savings commitment product newly introduced to our study population. A random subset of participants was targeted through our promotional campaign to test whether the...

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Innovation and communication media in virtual teams - an experimental study

Grözinger, Nicola; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Laske, Katharina; … - 2020

In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...

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