Testing Interventions for Social Media Prosociality

At the Prosocial Design Network we have curated scientifically tested interventions (of different methodological merit) to increase prosociality on social media. We want to in a larger research effort test the interventions which, so far, have received little scientific testing.

Project status: We are at the very beginning of identifying the interventions which, most urgently, need to be tested more rigorously.

Goal: We want to identify a set of interventions that will be tested for their practical effects for prosociality on social media platforms. Afterward, we will design experiments testing these interventions’ effects in a structured manner. We search for collaborators with expertise in this type of research to co-pilot the experiments and their analyses.

Funding: There is no funding and I’d be excited to co-develop a fellowship or grant proposal with support of the Prosocial Design Network.

Time commitement: Medium. Most work will go into designing suitable experiments and collect and analyze data.