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Strategies for preventing and reversing polarized online discourse
Leon Klingborg, Kenneth Mavor, Alexander J. Stewart
Political polarization poses a variety of challenges for modern democracies. Entrenched disagreements on policy can prevent constructive discourse and compromise, and high levels o…
Community Notes are Vulnerable to Rater Bias and Manipulation
Bao Tran Truong, Siqi Wu, Alessandro Flammini +2
Social media platforms increasingly rely on crowdsourced moderation systems like Community Notes to combat misinformation at scale. However, these systems face challenges from rate…
Cultural tightness and social cohesion under evolving norms
Filippo Zimmaro, Jacopo Grilli, Mirta Galesic +1
Successful collective action on issues from climate change to the maintenance of democracy depends on societal properties such as cultural tightness and social cohesion. How these…
Eco-evolutionary tradeoffs in the dynamics of prion strain competition
Saul Acevedo, Alexander J. Stewart
Prion and prion-like molecules are a type of self replicating aggregate protein that have been implicated in a variety of neurodegenerative diseases. Over recent decades the molecu…
Group reciprocity and the evolution of stereotyping
Alexander J. Stewart, Nichola Raihani
Stereotypes are generalized beliefs about groups of people, which are used to make decisions and judgments about them. Although such heuristics can be useful when decisions must be…
Incorporating Computational Challenges into a Multidisciplinary Course on Stochastic Processes
Mark Jayson Cortez, Alan Eric Akil, Krešimir Josić +1
Quantitative methods and mathematical modeling are playing an increasingly important role across disciplines. As a result, interdisciplinary mathematics courses are increasing in p…