[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Anger Management for Online Trolls
- [Wired: Science - Charles Q. Choi]
[Despite the title of the article, this is about applying science to forum moderation. -L]
…scientists at Yahoo and their colleagues are devising ways to automatically flag inordinately irate commenters to keep them from ruining online conversations for others.
…researchers developed techniques for automatically identifying negative posts that are off-topic while staying away from relevant ones. But rather than banishing hostile jerks or deleting their comments, the system could someday help steer them into more productive discussions…
The system learned to recognize emotions by reading LiveJournal posts, which bloggers can tag with moods such as “creative,” and analyzing which word combinations were linked most with certain moods.
- Psychology beyond the Brain
- [Scientific American]
…the [surprising] role of the entire body in psychology and the capacity for body parts inside and out to influence and regulate the most intimate operations of emotional and social life. The stomach’s gastric activity , for example, corresponds to how intensely people experience feelings such as happiness and disgust. The hands’ manipulation of objects that vary in temperature and texture influences judgments of how “warm” or “rough” people are…
[This is a don't-miss, if you care about the mind-body connection at all. And now I want everyone to start using the phrase, somatic psychology, because it is alliterative and therefore cool. -L]
- Adults who teach kids to bully, NOM, and why it’s hard to tell the two apart
- [Prop 8 Trial Tracker - adambink]
Over at Huffington Post, Keli Goff has an interesting piece on the recent gay teen suicides. In it, she discusses her African-American mother’s difficulty with racial bullying when she was in school, and argues that the adults are the ones to blame…
While I think Keli may give the bullies a bit too much of a free pass in terms of fault, given that we don’t know where many of them “got it from”, I think she is on the right track here.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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