On clickbaits and evolution: curiosity from urge and interest

Dan, Ohad; Leshkowitz, Maya; Hassin, Ran R.

doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.09.009

Cited by 7 publications

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“…Benevolent actors might aim to optimize linguistic features in order to maximize engagement in high-stakes contexts such as public health messaging [60,61]. Malevolent actors, on the other hand, might aim to design clickbait [62] and to optimize the linguistic features by tapping into curiosity as the driving mechanisms [63][64][65].…”

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Linguistic effects on news headline success: Evidence from thousands of online field experiments (Registered Report)

et al. 2023

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What makes written text appealing? In this registered report, we study the linguistic characteristics of news headline success using a large-scale dataset of field experiments (A/B tests) conducted on the popular website Upworthy.com comparing multiple headline variants for the same news articles. This unique setup allows us to control for factors that could otherwise have important confounding effects on headline success. Based on the prior literature and an exploratory portion of the data, we formulated hypotheses about the linguistic features associated with statistically superior headlines, previously published as a registered report protocol. Here, we report the findings based on a much larger portion of the data that became available after the publication of our registered report protocol. Our registered findings contribute to resolving competing hypotheses about the linguistic features that affect the success of text and provide avenues for research into the psychological mechanisms that are activated by those features.

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Section: Plos Onementioning

confidence: 99%

Linguistic effects on news headline success: Evidence from thousands of online field experiments (Registered Report)

et al. 2023

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“…Zainteresowanie wynika z analizy przydatności uzyskanej wiedzy. Badania przeprowadzone w ramach modelu CURI (Dan, 2020) pokazują, że w przypadku clickbaitów decydujące znaczenie ma chęć szybkiego zdobycia informacji, jednak często mylona jest ona z zainteresowaniem tematem.…”

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Klikać czy czytać? Pragmatyczna funkcja clickbaitów

Nowakowska-Głuszak

2023

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Internet nie tylko zmienia język i sposób komunikowania się ludzi, ale również daje przestrzeń do powstawania nowych form i gatunków tekstowych. Ich rozwój determinują zwykle czynniki, które do tej pory, w tradycyjnej komunikacji ustnej czy pisemnej, miały (jeśli w ogóle) znaczenie drugo czy trzeciorzędne. W konsekwencji, analiza szeroko rozumianej komunikacji w Internecie, zwłaszcza na poziomie pragmatycznym, wymaga od językoznawcy podejścia interdyscyplinarnego, uwzględniającego wiedzę językową, psychologiczną i technologiczną. Pokazuje to doskonale przykład clikbaitów, czyli odnośników internetowych, których zadaniem jest przyciągnięcie uwagi odbiorcy i nakłonienie go do kliknięcia w hiperłącze. W niniejszym artykule staramy się opisać i wyjaśnić strategie komunikacyjne stosowane w clikbaitach, przyjmując jako punkt wyjścia badania z zakresu UX designu, głównie na temat nowego sposobu czytania na ekranie (tzw. F-shapped pattern) oraz psychologiczną koncepcję luki ciekawości (Loewenstein, 1994). Omawiamy również zjawisko tabloidyzacji mediów internetowych oraz rosnący wpływ clikbaitów na prezentowane w nich treści.

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“…Empirical research on curiosity has largely conceived of curiosity as a particularly rewarding combination of an appetitive drive (interest; Berlyne, 2014) and a motivating information-gap or prediction error (deprivation; Loewenstein, 1994) that intrinsically motivates individuals to seek out information about phenomena (Dan et al, 2020;Litman, 2008;Litman et al, 2019;Shen et al, 2022). While both deprivation and interest predict that curiosity will lead to approach-oriented behavior, they produce mixed predictions regarding the utility of curiosity in goal-pursuit and the associated emotional impact of curiosity.…”

Section: Curiosity's Emotional Outcomesmentioning

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Curiosity and the regulation of affective memory

Ham¹,

Murty²,

Helion³

2023

Preprint

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We propose a cognitive and neurobiological model by which curiosity aids emotion regulation through abstract and flexible information-processing, which may positively bias memory. We begin with an overview of curiosity's emotional effects. Then we introduce models of affective memory encoding to suggest that the dopaminergic modulation of encoding associated with curiosity may positively bias these processes. Next, we identify how neural processes underlying curiosity in the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG), the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), and the lateral pre-frontal cortex (LPFC) address mechanisms underlying our framework. Specifically, we argue that curiosity's regulatory mechanisms of abstraction and cognitive flexibility, in combination with its memory mechanisms, predict that curiosity is likely to encode arousing information through positively biased neurobiological pathways.

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On clickbaits and evolution: curiosity from urge and interest

Cited by 7 publications

References 38 publications

Linguistic effects on news headline success: Evidence from thousands of online field experiments (Registered Report)

Linguistic effects on news headline success: Evidence from thousands of online field experiments (Registered Report)

Klikać czy czytać? Pragmatyczna funkcja clickbaitów

Curiosity and the regulation of affective memory

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