Social uncertainty in the digital world

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Nov 2023 United Kingdom English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Trends in Cognitive Sciences, volume 28, pages 286-289 (issn: 1364-6613,

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Authors: Amanda M Ferguson; Georgia Turner; Amy Orben;

doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.02.005 , 10.31234/osf.io/m97ug , 10.17863/cam.108865

pmid: 38448356

pmc: PMC10993016

Social uncertainty in the digital world

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The social world is inherently uncertain. We present a computational framework for thinking about how increasingly popular online environments modulate the social uncertainty we experience, dependent on the type of social inferences we make. This framework draws on Bayesian inference, which involves combining multiple informational sources to update our beliefs.

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Forum, digital affordances, social media, Bayesian inference, Uncertainty, Humans, Bayes Theorem, social uncertainty

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