The effects of celebrity gossip on trust are moderated by prosociality of the gossipers

Rudnicki, K.; Backer, Charlotte De; Declerck, Carolyn H.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2019.02.010

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“…When distributing gossip and rumours, the group cohesion is ensured by value allegiance as it helps us decide who shares the same values as us and who is an outsider -and this is easily seen by checking who relays our messages further on their SNS, who likes it and who comments it. Another function is virtue signalling (Rudnicki et al 2019): two persons will gossip about a third to check if they both manifest the same attitude of disapproval or envy, etc. Often (mis) information shared on SNSs works similarly to gossip and rumour not because it is a secret information, but because it helps select and filter out who is on our group/ network by approval and virtue signalling.…”

Section: Forms Of Life and Language Games On Social Networking Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sharing (mis) information on social networking sites. An exploration of the norms for distributing content authored by others

Marin

2021

Ethics Inf Technol

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This article explores the norms that govern regular users’ acts of sharing content on social networking sites. Many debates on how to counteract misinformation on Social Networking Sites focus on the epistemic norms of testimony, implicitly assuming that the users’ acts of sharing should fall under the same norms as those for posting original content. I challenge this assumption by proposing a non-epistemic interpretation of (mis) information sharing on social networking sites which I construe as infrastructures for forms of life found online. Misinformation sharing belongs more in the realm of rumour spreading and gossiping rather than in the information-giving language games. However, the norms for sharing cannot be fixed in advance, as these emerge at the interaction between the platforms’ explicit rules, local norms established by user practices, and a meta-norm of sociality. This unpredictability does not leave us with a normative void as an important user responsibility still remains, namely that of making the context of the sharing gesture explicit. If users will clarify how their gestures of sharing are meant to be interpreted by others, they will implicitly assume responsibility for possible misunderstandings based on omissions, and the harms of shared misinformation can be diminished.

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Section: Forms Of Life and Language Games On Social Networking Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sharing (mis) information on social networking sites. An exploration of the norms for distributing content authored by others

Marin

2021

Ethics Inf Technol

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“…One of the core strengths of CHIELD is that it can identify studies that test critical causal links. For example, the explore tool automatically discovered an experiment by Rudnicki, Backer and Declerck (2019) where pairs of participants played a trust game after either gossiping for 20 minutes or interacting without gossiping. They found that (for prosocial people) gossiping increased trust, in line with Dunbar's hypothesis.…”

Section: Case Study 1: Gossip Ritual and Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…6, we show 21 of these studies represented as causal graphs (Supplementary Material S3 include the R script for automatically generating this figure from CHIELD). Dunbar (2004) and Knight, Power and Watts (1995), with an insert showing the conflict between them and an additional study by Rudnicki, Backer and Declerck (2019) that was automatically discovered.…”

Section: Case Study 2: Population Size and Morphological Complexitymentioning

confidence: 99%

CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database

Roberts

Killin

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et al. 2020

Journal of Language Evolution

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Language is one of the most complex of human traits. There are many hypotheses about how it originated, what factors shaped its diversity, and what ongoing processes drive how it changes. We present the Causal Hypotheses in Evolutionary Linguistics Database (CHIELD, https://chield.excd.org/), a tool for expressing, exploring, and evaluating hypotheses. It allows researchers to integrate multiple theories into a coherent narrative, helping to design future research. We present design goals, a formal specification, and an implementation for this database. Source code is freely available for other fields to take advantage of this tool. Some initial results are presented, including identifying conflicts in theories about gossip and ritual, comparing hypotheses relating population size and morphological complexity, and an author relation network.

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“…Therefore, we propose hypothesis 3: trust has positive correlations with cooperative behavior. Trust has a positive effect on cooperation because trust involves expectations of others’ prosocial motives in situations that involve conflicts between one’s own and collective interests ( Balliet & Van Lange, 2013 ) , and it encourages mutual cooperative behaviors ( Rudnicki et al., 2019 ) . From these insights, based on the GLM, the prosocial content of video games (as found in cooperative game modes) may increase prosocial behaviors, and game task interdependence may increase expectations of others’ cooperative behavior, group members’ perceived responsibility and trust with regard to other group members’ outcomes, contributing to the realization of group success (Velez & Ewoldsen, 2013).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The Impact of Social Value Orientation, Game Context and Trust on Cooperative Behavior After Cooperative Video Game Play

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This study explores the effects of the cooperative video game context, social value orientation (SVO) and trust on cooperative behavior. The main ﬁnding is that collaborative game play signiﬁcantly increases cooperative behavior, especially in prosocial individuals. In addition, a mediation model is established in which trust partially mediates the association between the game mode and cooperative behavior. The results indicate that playing collaborative games increases cooperation in prosocial people partially by facilitating the trust they have in their gaming partners. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

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The effects of celebrity gossip on trust are moderated by prosociality of the gossipers

Cited by 14 publications

References 35 publications

Sharing (mis) information on social networking sites. An exploration of the norms for distributing content authored by others

Sharing (mis) information on social networking sites. An exploration of the norms for distributing content authored by others

CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database

The Impact of Social Value Orientation, Game Context and Trust on Cooperative Behavior After Cooperative Video Game Play

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