Welcome to the SOCIALSENSE Experiment

General Experiment Demonstrations

Rumor Clustering, Consolidation and Confidence: Dynamic Social Impact and Self-Organization of Hearsay

• SOCIALSENSE 1
• SOCIALSENSE 2

“I heard that Democrats Abuse Drugs and Republicans are Racist”: Network Clustering and Group Segregation Effects on Defensive and Non-Defensive Rumor Belief Polarization and Self-Organization

• SOCIALSENSE 3
• SOCIALSENSE 3B
• SOCIALSENSE 3C

Source Code

The socialsense application is an open source project released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is freely available to anyone. If you would like to run the SOCIALSENSE experiement yourself, you may download the latest source code. The archive includes the both the client and server and all administration tools needed to reproduce all three studies. You can also browse the source code and contribute to the project by going to the Sensemake Sourceforge page.

Please direct any questions or issues to Nicholas DiFonzo or Andrew J. Younge.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. BCS-0527371. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation