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141Lateral reading and monetary incentives to spot disinformation about scienceScientific Reports 12 (1): 5678. 2022.
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24You can laugh at everything, but not with everyoneLatest Issue of Interaction Studies 18 (1): 116-141. 2017.This paper explores the impact of group affiliation with respect to the on-line processing and appreciation of jokes, using facial electromyography activity and offline evaluations as dependent measures. Two experiments were conducted in which group affiliation varied between the participant and each of two independent speakers whose described political profiles were distinguished through one word: “Right” versus “Left.” Experiment 1 showed that jokes were more highly evaluated and that associat…Read more
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19Cultural Evolution of Precise and Agreed‐Upon Semantic Conventions in a Multiplayer Gaming AppCognitive Science 46 (2). 2022.Cognitive Science, Volume 46, Issue 2, February 2022.
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25Cultural Evolution of Precise and Agreed‐Upon Semantic Conventions in a Multiplayer Gaming AppCognitive Science 46 (2). 2022.The amount of information conveyed by linguistic conventions depends on their precision, yet the codes that humans and other animals use to communicate are quite ambiguous: they may map several vague meanings to the same symbol. How does semantic precision evolve, and what are the constraints that limit it? We address this question using a multiplayer gaming app, where individuals communicate with one another in a scaled-up referential game. Here, the goal is for a sender to use black and white …Read more
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457Why Trust Raoult? How Social Indicators Inform the Reputations of ExpertsSocial Epistemology 36 (3): 299-316. 2022.The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the considerable challenge of sourcing expertise and determining which experts to trust. Dissonant information fostered controversy in public discourse and encouraged an appeal to a wide range of social indicators of trustworthiness in order to decide whom to trust. We analyze public discourse on expertise by examining how social indicators inform the reputation of Dr. Didier Raoult, the French microbiologist who rose to international prominence as an early ad…Read more
Tiffany Morisseau
Université Paris Cité