Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks

WJ Brady, JA Wills, JT Jost… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Political debate concerning moralized issues is increasingly common in online social
networks. However, moral psychology has yet to incorporate the study of social networks to …

The MAD model of moral contagion: The role of motivation, attention, and design in the spread of moralized content online

WJ Brady, MJ Crockett… - … on Psychological Science, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
With more than 3 billion users, online social networks represent an important venue for
moral and political discourse and have been used to organize political revolutions, influence …

An ideological asymmetry in the diffusion of moralized content on social media among political leaders.

WJ Brady, JA Wills, D Burkart, JT Jost… - Journal of …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Online social networks constitute a major platform for the exchange of moral and political
ideas, and political elites increasingly rely on social media platforms to communicate directly …

Morally homogeneous networks and radicalism

M Atari, AM Davani, D Kogon… - Social …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Online radicalization is among the most vexing challenges the world faces today. Here, we
demonstrate that homogeneity in moral concerns results in increased levels of radical …

What makes people share political content on social media? The role of emotion, authority and ideology

J Weismueller, P Harrigan, K Coussement… - Computers in Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we examine which content characteristics lead to increased sharing of political
information on social media, and which role political ideology has in user sharing behavior …

Moralization in social networks and the emergence of violence during protests

M Mooijman, J Hoover, Y Lin, H Ji… - Nature human …, 2018 - nature.com
In recent years, protesters in the United States have clashed violently with police and
counter-protesters on numerous occasions,–. Despite widespread media attention, little …

Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility

WJ Brady, KL McLoughlin, MP Torres, KF Luo… - Nature human …, 2023 - nature.com
As individuals and political leaders increasingly interact in online social networks, it is
important to understand the dynamics of emotion perception online. Here, we propose that …

How social learning amplifies moral outrage expression in online social networks

WJ Brady, K McLoughlin, TN Doan, MJ Crockett - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Moral outrage shapes fundamental aspects of social life and is now widespread in online
social networks. Here, we show how social learning processes amplify online moral outrage …

Reconsidering evidence of moral contagion in online social networks

JW Burton, N Cruz, U Hahn - Nature Human Behaviour, 2021 - nature.com
The ubiquity of social media use and the digital data traces it produces has triggered a
potential methodological shift in the psychological sciences away from traditional, laboratory …

Purity homophily in social networks.

M Dehghani, K Johnson, J Hoover, E Sagi… - Journal of …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Does sharing moral values encourage people to connect and form communities? The
importance of moral homophily (love of same) has been recognized by social scientists, but …