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Causal Modeling of Climate Activism on Reddit
Jacopo Lenti, Luca Maria Aiello, Corrado Monti +1
Climate activism is crucial in stimulating collective societal and behavioral change towards sustainable practices through political pressure. Although multiple factors contribute…
Prompt Refinement or Fine-tuning? Best Practices for using LLMs in Computational Social Science Tasks
Anders Giovanni Møller, Luca Maria Aiello
Large Language Models are expressive tools that enable complex tasks of text understanding within Computational Social Science. Their versatility, while beneficial, poses a barrier…
Nicer Than Humans: How do Large Language Models Behave in the Prisoner's Dilemma?
Nicoló Fontana, Francesco Pierri, Luca Maria Aiello
The behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs) as artificial social agents is largely unexplored, and we still lack extensive evidence of how these agents react to simple social stim…
Narratives of Collective Action in YouTube's Discourse on Veganism
Arianna Pera, Luca Maria Aiello
Narratives can be powerful tools for inspiring action on pressing societal issues such as climate change. While social science theories offer frameworks for understanding the narra…