Social influence bias: a randomized experiment.

Do Your Online Friends Make You Pay? A Randomized Field Experiment in an Online Music Social Network

Demonstrating compelling causal evidence of the existence and strength of peer to peer influence has become the holy grail of the modern research in online social networks. In these networks, it has been consistently demonstrated that user characteristics and behavior tend to cluster both in space and in time. There are two well known rival mechanisms that compete to be the explanation for this...

Are Paid Subscriptions on Music Social Networks Contagious? A Randomized Field Experiment

Demonstrating compelling causal evidence of the existence and strength of peer to peer influence in online social networks has become the holy grail of the modern research in online social networks. While it has been consistently demonstrated that user characteristics and behavior tend to cluster inside social networks both in space and in time, there are several different mechanisms that can c...

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Unpriming: the deactivation of thoughts through expression.

Unpriming is a decrease in the influence of primed knowledge following a behavior expressing that knowledge. The authors investigated strategies for unpriming the knowledge of an answer that is activated when people are asked to consider a simple question. Experiment 1 found that prior correct answering eliminated the bias people normally show toward correct responding when asked to answer yes-...

Attentional biases in social anxiety: an investigation using the inattentional blindness paradigm.

One line of research has examined attentional bias as a potential maintenance factor in social anxiety using cognitive experiment paradigms. The present study sought to examine the utility of the inattentional blindness (IB) paradigm for assessing attentional bias in social anxiety. Unlike other existing paradigms such as the emotional Stroop or dot-probe tasks, the IB paradigm has the advantag...