Trial reportSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2023
Invoking self-related and social thoughts impacts online information sharing.
Trial report in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evaluating a Culturally Tailored Digital Storytelling Intervention to Improve Trauma Awareness in Conflict-Affected Eastern Congo: Quasi-Experimental Pilot Study.JMIR mental health · 2026Article
- How do core personality traits influence short video dependence among Chinese college students? Evidence from a serial mediation analysis under the I-PACE model.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Intervening and reducing sharing of false cancer treatments on social media: Online experiment.PloS one · 2026Article
- Psychological, social, and health-related factors predict risk for financial exploitation.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Perceived self and social relevance of content motivates news sharing across cultures and topics.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Intersubject correlations in reward and mentalizing brain circuits separately predict persuasiveness of two types of ISIS video propaganda.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Neural signals predict information sharing across cultures.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Communicating COVID-19 exposure risk with an interactive website counteracts risk misestimation.PloS one · 2023Article
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Online sharing impacts which information is widely available and influential in society. Yet, systematically influencing sharing behavior remains difficult. Past research highlights two factors associated with sharing: the social and self-relevance of the to-be-shared content. Based on this prior neuroimaging work and theory, we developed a manipulation in the form of short prompts that are attached to media content (here health news articles). These prompts encourage readers to think about how sharing the content may help them to fulfill motivations to present themselves positively (self-relevance) or connect positively to others (social relevance). Fifty-three young adults completed this pre-registered experiment while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging. Ninety-six health news articles were randomly assigned to three within-subject conditions that encouraged self-related or social thinking or a control. Invoking self-related or social thoughts about health-related news (vs control) (i) causally increased brain activity in a priori regions of interest chosen for their roles in processing social and self-relevance and (ii) causally impacted self-reported sharing intentions. This study provides evidence corroborating prior reverse inferences regarding the neural correlates of sharing. It further highlights the feasibility and utility of targeting neuropsychological processes to systematically facilitate online information spread.
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