Saturday, July 19, 2014

The emotional involvement behind social media interactions

It is incredible how many of us choose to communicate with others through social media channels like Facebook and Twitter rather than speaking directly with the people we share our homes with.
Social interaction, theory of mind and emotional involvement

In one of the most cited articles in the field of Behavioral Economic, Sanfey et al (2003) analyzed the brain processes behind recipients’ responses to unfair offers (in which the divider offers 30 percent or less). It found that unfair offers made by human partners were rejected at a significantly higher rate than offers made by a computer, suggesting that participants had a stronger emotional reaction to unfair offers from humans than to the same offers from a computer.

Why does this happen? Why is communicating through a computer so often easier than communicating face to face?  

Sources: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/07/19/emotional-involvement-behind-social-media-interactions/

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