Comments on: handy little microbes… https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=561 Tue, 14 Feb 2006 04:12:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 By: Christopher Allen https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=561&cpage=1#comment-2190 Tue, 14 Feb 2006 04:12:17 +0000 http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=561#comment-2190 The original paper doesn’t actually say 50/50, instead, it says the chance of picking correctly the intent of irony vs sincerity was no better then random chance. I find this a much more accurate way to say it than a 50/50 chance.

There are also a number of other psychological and sociological causes for the cycle of flames, including over-interpretation of emotional content, emotional contagion, and lowered empathy during higher intensity emotions. I’ve written more about these in my blog at Flames: Emotional Amplification of Text.

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