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Behavioural Sociology of Humans and Machines
Taha Yasseri, Hao Cui, Nico Mutzner
Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly participates in communication, decision-making, and collective action, making the social organisation of human-machine interaction central…
Social Physics: A manifesto
János Kertész, Marc Barthelemny, Marc Barthelemy +21
Social Physics seeks quantitative, empirically testable explanations of collective human behavior. Its name has a long and contested history, but its contemporary program is neithe…
A field experiment of social influence and behavioral contagion with bots on Reddit
Hiroki Oda, Kinga Makovi, Taha Yasseri +1
Recent advances in AI have heightened scholars' and policy makers' concern with social influence and behavioral contagion in online communities. We conduct a field experiment on Re…
Endogenous drivers of gender disparity in online dating
Huaiyu Tan, Chenyu Li, Taha Yasseri +2
In its early days, online dating was heralded as a great equalizer, removing biases built into the structures of heterosexuality courtship. However, as repeatedly observed, that pr…
Gender Dynamics and Homophily in a Social Network of LLM Agents
Faezeh Fadaei, Jenny Carla Moran, Taha Yasseri
Generative artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in interactive settings, yet we know little about how their identity performance devel…
Visual Anthropomorphism Shifts Evaluations of Gendered AI Managers
Ruiqing Han, Hao Cui, Taha Yasseri
This research examines whether competence cues can reduce gender bias in evaluations of AI managers and whether these effects depend on how the AI is represented. Across two prereg…
The Benefit of Collective Intelligence in Community-Based Content Moderation is Limited by Overt Political Signalling
Gabriela Juncosa, Saeedeh Mohammadi, Margaret Samahita +1
Social media platforms face increasing scrutiny over the rapid spread of misinformation. In response, many have adopted community-based content moderation systems, including Commun…
Bounded Normative Equivalence in Human-AI Cooperation: Group Behaviour, Not Partner Labels, Predicts Cooperation under Anonymous Aggregate Feedback
Nico Mutzner, Taha Yasseri, Heiko Rauhut
The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) agents into human groups raises questions about how they influence cooperative social norms. Prior work has examined human-AI and h…