Tweetment Effects on the Tweeted: Experimentally Reducing Racist Harassment
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...Research suggests that sanctions from high-status Twitter accounts can reduce racism in subsequent tweets (Munger, 2017); future research should examine how individuals respond if their own tweets are corrected by the CDC or another reputable organization....
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...Likewise, future research should also test whether social cues—such as the number of followers for an account or the number of “likes” for a correction—can enhance the effectiveness of corrective efforts (Munger, 2017)....
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...forms has focused primarily on controversies [3, 13, 20, 21, 45, 52] and anti-social behavior, in the form of trolling [11, 12, 42], sockpuppetry [39], harassment and cyberbullying [8, 23, 32, 35, 55, 66, 79], vandalism [43], hate speech [9, 15, 51, 56, 72], and others [17, 24, 40, 41, 44, 46, 54, 68, 78, 81]....
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...I varied two aspects of the bots, resulting in a 2 9 2 experimental design: the first dimension of variation was the identity of the bot, to test the finding from Social Identity Theory that sanctioning by members of a person’s in-group is more effective (Tajfel and Turner 1979)....
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...A comprehensive review finds only mild support for the contact hypothesis (Pettigrew and Tropp 2006), and others note...
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...A comprehensive review finds only mild support for the contact hypothesis (Pettigrew and Tropp 2006), and others note that the subject makes isolating causation difficult (Binder et al. 2009)....
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...important set of group norms, and prejudice towards out-groups can be a strong signal of in-group membership (Brewer 1999)....
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...Attitudes towards out-groups are a particularly important set of group norms, and prejudice towards out-groups can be a strong signal of in-group membership (Brewer 1999)....
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