RealFeedApp Commenters show more empathy toward members of their own group
Analysis of 126,716 comments in r/AmItheAsshole showed that users expressed more empathy and less social judgment when the poster shared their gender or age.
- Field
- society and regulation
- What they did
- Researchers analyzed over 126,000 comments on the Reddit community to understand how people express empathy and social judgment based on whether they share the poster's gender or age.
- Why it matters
- This helps understand the mechanisms of intergroup bias in real online interaction, where people tend to empathize more with those belonging to their social group.
#social psychology#empathy#intergroup bias#online interaction#demographics
