{"id":498,"date":"2018-10-23T11:36:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/?p=498"},"modified":"2018-10-23T11:36:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:36:36","slug":"reflection-12-10-23-nitin-nair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/2018\/10\/23\/reflection-12-10-23-nitin-nair\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection #12 \u2013 [10\/23] \u2013 [Nitin Nair]"},"content":{"rendered":"

[1] R. M. Bond et al., \u201cA 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization,\u201d Nature, vol. 489, no. 7415, pp. 295\u2013298, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

[2] J. E. Guillory et al., \u201cEditorial Expression of Concern: Experimental evidence of massive scale emotional contagion through social networks,\u201d Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., vol. 111, no. 29, pp. 10779\u201310779, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

<Jots><\/p>\n

<1><\/p>\n

Ethical issues abound.<\/span><\/p>\n

<2><\/p>\n

When one observes (key word) a close friend to be in a negative mood, we internally pick one of two choices: fight or flight (broader term: arousal).<\/span><\/p>\n

Given, if the connection is strong, the probability of choosing the former, fight, will be high.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although, the probability is dependent on the psychological character of the actor, given that most of us belong to one that exhibits positive attitude towards helping people fall into a category that would \u201cfight.\u201d(assumption may be challenged) <\/span><\/p>\n

Given, the above, our minds go into a state which is ideal from helping another combat certain issue. This state allows one to put oneself in another\u2019s shoe: empathy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Can being in this state reflect in oneself? <\/span><\/p>\n

If so, isn\u2019t it a good characteristic, one that makes us human?<\/span><\/p>\n

<3><\/p>\n

But how does one separate empathy for a close few from a group.<\/span><\/p>\n

Can this empathy turn into allegiance leading to group thinking?<\/span><\/p>\n

Is censorship a good way to tackle this? As a proponent of democracy I don\u2019t think so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such effects can be negated through more diverse opinions in the public forum. But isn\u2019t this affected by entities that restrict the access to these channels.<\/span><\/p>\n

<4><\/p>\n

Also, doesn\u2019t it mean there is a lack of forums which are designed to be available for everyone. Designed to be fair. This is definitely a moonshot as \u201chuman forum\u201d (society) evolving for millennia hasn\u2019t found the global optima (solution). But, this shouldn\u2019t be a deterrent.<\/span><\/p>\n

<5><\/p>\n

If one is pushed into a negative mood valance, would you be able to understand another\u2019s state? Study [3] shows we’re less able to resonate with other people\u2019s pain when we\u2019re feeling down. Wouldn\u2019t this mean the assumption of the authors of [2], of having equal probability of sharing information by a person being subjected to the experiment is wrong? <\/span><\/p>\n

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[3] <\/span>Li, X., Meng, X., Li, H., Yang, J. and Yuan, J., 2017. The impact of mood on empathy for pain: Evidence from an EEG study. <\/span>Psychophysiology<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>54<\/span><\/i>(9), pp.1311-1322.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[1] R. M. Bond et al., \u201cA 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization,\u201d Nature, vol. 489, no. 7415, pp. 295\u2013298, 2012. [2] J. E. Guillory et al., \u201cEditorial Expression of Concern: Experimental evidence of massive scale emotional contagion through social networks,\u201d Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., vol. 111, no. 29, pp. 10779\u201310779, 2014. <Jots> […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}