Moral Outrage Online, Cuttlefish Memory, Sounds Have Shapes
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Learn about the dark side of likes and shares; how cuttlefish memory stays sharp in old age; and bouba and kiki shapes.
Likes and shares push people to express "moral outrage" by Steffie Drucker
- Brady, W. J., McLoughlin, K., Doan, T. N., & Crockett, M. J. (2021). How social learning amplifies moral outrage expression in online social networks. Science Advances, 7(33), eabe5641. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe5641
- “Likes” and “shares” teach people to express more outrage online. (2021, August 13). YaleNews. https://news.yale.edu/2021/08/13/likes-and-shares-teach-people-express-more-outrage-online
- Diaz, J. (2021, May 6). Want To Send A Mean Tweet? Twitter’s New Feature Wants You To Think Again. NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/2021/05/06/994138707/want-to-send-a-mean-tweet-twitters-new-feature-wants-you-to-think-again
- Mosseri, A. (2019). Instagram’s Commitment to Lead Fight Against Online Bullying | Instagram Blog. Instagram.com; Instagram. https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/instagrams-commitment-to-lead-fight-against-online-bullying
Cuttlefish memory stays sharp in old age, making them the first animal with this trait by Cameron Duke
- Cuttlefish retain sharp memory of specific events in old age, unlike humans, study finds. (2021, August 17). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/925467
- Schnell, A. K., Clayton, N. S., Hanlon, R. T., & Jozet-Alves, C. (2021). Episodic-like memory is preserved with age in cuttlefish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1957), 20211052. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1052
You Probably Know Which Shape Is A Bouba And Kiki by Joanie Faletto
- Etchells, P. (2016, October 17). The bouba/kiki effect: how do we link shapes to sounds? The Guardian; The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2016/oct/17/the-boubakiki-effect-how-do-we-link-shapes-to-sounds
- Do Sounds Have Shapes? (2015). Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-apes/201505/do-sounds-have-shapes
- Huang, H. (2019, June 28). What’s the Neuroscience Behind the Bouba/Kiki Effect? NBB in Paris. https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/nbbparis/2019/06/28/whats-the-neuroscience-behind-the-bouba-kiki-effect/
- Ramachandran, V. S., & Hubbard, E. M. (2018). Synaesthesia -- A window into perception, thought and language. http://cbc.ucsd.edu/pdf/Synaesthesia%20-%20JCS.pdf
- Maurer, D., Pathman, T., & Mondloch, C. J. (2006). The shape of boubas: sound-shape correspondences in toddlers and adults. Developmental Science, 9(3), 316–322. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00495.x
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:07.4 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.4 | Today you learn about how likes and shares push people to express moral outrage, the first animal we found whose memory |
| 0:15.2 | stays sharp in old age, and how you probably already know what certain nonsense words are shaped |
| 0:21.1 | like. |
| 0:22.1 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:25.0 | If it feels like social media has made everyone polarized and angry, |
| 0:29.0 | you're not imagining it. |
| 0:31.0 | And a new study illustrates just how social media platforms actually lead to more |
| 0:37.5 | moral outrage. |
| 0:40.2 | This might not come as a surprise. Plenty of people have suspected that the way social media platforms are built |
| 0:47.0 | encourages the spread of extreme viewpoints. |
| 0:50.0 | The Yale University researchers behind this study suspected that this is because social media does two things. |
| 0:57.0 | First, it rewards us for our outrage. |
| 1:01.0 | When people get up on their social media soapbox, they get likes and |
| 1:05.1 | comments and shares from people who agree. And second, it enforces social norms. |
| 1:11.7 | If the people you follow are expressing outrage, you're likely to go with |
| 1:16.1 | the flow and express outrage too. For their part, Facebook and Twitter have claimed their platforms are neutral, and that these conversations |
| 1:25.6 | would happen offline too. |
| 1:28.0 | But this new study provides hard evidence that discredits that claim. The team taught a computer to analyze 12.7 |
| 1:36.9 | million tweets from more than 7,000 Twitter users. Roughly half the data was collected from people who had |
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