languagepositivity

Author: khemarato

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+title: "Human Language Reveals a Universal Positivity Bias"
+authors:
+  - "Peter Sheridan Dodds"
+  - "Eric M. Clark"
+  - "Suma Desu"
+  - "Morgan R. Frank"
+  - "Andrew J. Reagan and others"
+external_url: "https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/112/8/2389.full.pdf"
+source_url: "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1411678112"
+arxiv_doi: "https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1406.3855"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bKzPpxG_ivocndy6EM-cguPosijuWcqn/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: communication
+tags:
+  - emotion
+  - computational-linguistics
+  - social-intelligence
+year: 2015
+month: feb
+journal: pnas
+volume: 112
+number: 8
+pages: "2389--2394"
+openalexid: W2022792389
+---
+
+> Using human evaluation of 100,000 words spread across 24 corpora in 10 languages diverse in origin and culture, we present evidence of a deep imprint of human sociality in language, observing that (i) the words of natural human language possess a universal positivity bias, (ii) the estimated emotional content of words is consistent between languages under translation, and (iii) this positivity bias is strongly independent of frequency of word use.