4 papers
Conspiracy Theory Rabbit Holes Emerge via Interacting Contagions
Fabian Tschofenig, Paul Vicinanza, Henrich Greve +2
Why do people fall into conspiracy theory rabbit holes? Prior research explains rabbit holes via psychological and algorithmic causes, yielding inconsistent findings. Here, we argu…
Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts
Arianna Pera, Mauro Martino, Nima Dehmamy +3
Claims about the universality of human concepts have been predominantly assessed through linguistic similarity across languages and cultures. However, words are effective as commun…
Free-form Association Tasks Reveal Stereotype Hallucination in Large Language Models
Xinrui Chloe Zhao, Douglas Guilbeault, Amir Goldberg
Recent studies argue that LLMs can predict human stereotypical judgments. Yet whether LLMs emulate the cognitive processes underlying human stereotypes, or merely retrieve learned…
Emergent Directedness in Social Contagion
Fabian Tschofenig, Douglas Guilbeault
An enduring challenge in contagion theory is that the pathways contagions follow through social networks exhibit emergent complexities that are difficult to predict using network s…