Evaluating the status of theories of emotion in political science and psychology

GE Marcus - Frontiers in Political Science, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Emotion is an increasingly influential area of research in psychology, political psychology,
political science, and other social sciences. Research is best when driven by theory …

Negative online news articles are shared more to social media

J Watson, S van der Linden, M Watson, D Stillwell - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
Prior research demonstrates that news-related social media posts using negative language
are re-posted more, rewarding users who produce negative content. We investigate whether …

Content biases in three phases of cultural transmission: A review

JM Stubbersfield - Culture and Evolution, 2022‏ - akjournals.com
Cultural evolution theory proposes that information transmitted through social learning is not
transmitted indiscriminately but is instead biased by heuristics and mechanisms which …

“Give your thumb a break” from surfing tragic posts: Potential corrosive consequences of social media users' doomscrolling

R Shabahang, S Kim, AA Hosseinkhanzadeh… - Media …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Negativity bias predicts that individuals will attend to, learn from, and prioritize negative
news more than positive news. Drawing from the addiction components model, this cross …

Cultural defaults in the time of COVID: Lessons for the future

HR Markus, JL Tsai, Y Uchida… - … Science in the …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Five years after the beginning of the COVID pandemic, one thing is clear: The East Asian
countries of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea outperformed the United States in responding …

Work-from-home (WFH) during COVID-19 pandemic–A netnographic investigation using Twitter data

Z Daneshfar, A Asokan-Ajitha, P Sharma… - … Technology & People, 2023‏ - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to create a better understanding of the challenges posed by work
from home (WFH) during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, to investigate the public …

Feminism as a polarizing axis of the political conversation on Twitter the case of# IreneMonteroDimision

P Durántez, R Martínez-Sanz, T Piñeiro-Otero… - Profesional de la …, 2023‏ - ruc.udc.es
The fragmentation of the Spanish party system has led to a growing political polarization,
particularly evident on the Internet. The discursive strategies of political actors online …

Negative expressions are shared more on Twitter for public figures than for ordinary users

JP Schöne, D Garcia, B Parkinson, A Goldenberg - PNAS nexus, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Social media users tend to produce content that contains more positive than negative
emotional language. However, negative emotional language is more likely to be shared. To …

[PDF][PDF] Embedding societal values into social media algorithms

M Bernstein, A Christin, J Hancock… - Journal of Online Trust …, 2023‏ - tsjournal.org
Social media influences what we see and hear, what we believe, and how we act—but
artificial intelligence (AI) influences social media. By changing our social environments, AIs …

The Emotional Impact of COVID‐19 News Reporting: A Longitudinal Study Using Natural Language Processing

SL Evans, R Jones, E Alkan… - Human behavior and …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The emotional impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic and ensuing social restrictions has been
profound, with widespread negative effects on mental health. We made use of the natural …