arXiv cs.CL· Yu Hou, Hal Daum\'e III, Rachel Rudinger·· 13 小时前AI 评分22
研究发现 r/AmITheAsshole 社区中群内偏好影响社会判断与共情表达
Intergroup Bias Predicts Expressions of Social Judgment and Empathy in the r/AmITheAsshole Reddit Community
AI 导读
针对 r/AmITheAsshole 社区 18,111 名评论者的 126,716 条评论分析显示，当评论者与发帖者性别或年龄同属一个群体时，更倾向给出 Not the Asshole 判定，并表现出更高的文本共情理解（由 LLM 测量）。年长评论者的行为与年轻评论者存在差异；在冲突另一方性别与年龄被明确提及的帖子中，评论者与发帖者的群内效应还受发帖者与另一方群体关系的调节。
正文 · 原文
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 well-studied in social psychology, it remains unclear how it manifests in naturally occurring online social interactions. To this end, we measure how commenters express social judgments, as an indirect outcome of their understanding towards the posters, and empathy in text, based on whether commenters share the poster's gender or are of similar ages. We focus on posts where the poster self-reports these demographics, and analyze 126,716 comments associated with 36,163 posts from 18,111 commenters in r/AmItheAsshole, while controlling for commenter and poster group identities, post features (topic, length, and score), and both commenter- and post-level variance. Our results show that when commenters and posters are ingroup, in either gender or age, commenters are more likely to provide a Not the Asshole verdict and show greater text-based understanding as measured by LLMs. We also observe that older commenters behave differently from younger ones. Furthermore, in a subset of posts where the gender and age of the other party in the conflict are explicitly mentioned, we find that commenter-poster ingroup effects are moderated by the group relationships between the poster and the other party when commenters make social judgments. Our work highlights the importance of intergroup context and social group nuances in understanding online discourse.
| Comments: | ICWSM 2027 |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2610.29254 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2610.29254v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.29254 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
Submission history
From: Yu Hou [view email]
[v1]
Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:02:37 UTC (677 KB)
来源：arXiv cs.CL · arxiv.org