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Study: Intergroup bias impacts empathy and judgment on Reddit

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A new study published on arXiv analyzed over 126,000 comments from the r/AmItheAsshole subreddit to investigate how intergroup bias affects social judgment and empathy in online interactions. The research found that commenters are more likely to deliver a "Not the Asshole" verdict and demonstrate greater understanding when they share demographic similarities, such as gender or age, with the original poster. This effect was also observed to be moderated by the relationships between individuals in a conflict when commenters made social judgments, highlighting the influence of social group dynamics on online discourse. AI

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Study: Intergroup bias impacts empathy and judgment on Reddit

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Yu Hou, Hal Daum\'e III, Rachel Rudinger ·

    Intergroup Bias Predicts Expressions of Social Judgment and Empathy in the r/AmITheAsshole Reddit Community

    arXiv:2610.29254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: People share and understand others' experiences differently based on their social identities; often, people empathize more when the other person belongs to their ingroup compared to an outgroup. While this intergroup empathy gap is …

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