Human language reveals a universal positivity bias

被引：248

作者：

Dodds, Peter Sheridan ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Clark, Eric M. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Desu, Suma ^{[4
]}

Frank, Morgan R. ^{[4
]}

Reagan, Andrew J. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Williams, Jake Ryland ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Mitchell, Lewis ^{[5
]}

Harris, Kameron Decker ^{[6
]}

Kloumann, Isabel M. ^{[7
]}

Bagrow, James P. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Megerdoomian, Karine ^{[8
]}

McMahon, Matthew T. ^{[8
]}

Tivnan, Brian F. ^{[3
,8
]}

Danforth, Christopher M. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Vermont, Computat Story Lab, Vermont Adv Comp Core, Burlington, VT 05401 USA

[2] Univ Vermont, Dept Math & Stat, Burlington, VT 05401 USA

[3] Univ Vermont, Vermont Complex Syst Ctr, Burlington, VT 05401 USA

[4] MIT, Ctr Computat Engn, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[5] Univ Adelaide, Sch Math Sci, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

[6] Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

[7] Cornell Univ, Ctr Appl Math, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

[8] Mitre Corp, Mclean, VA 22102 USA

来源：

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | 2015年 / 112卷 / 08期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

language; social psychology; happiness; positivity;

D O I：

10.1073/pnas.1411678112

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

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. Alongside these general regularities, we describe interlanguage variations in the emotional spectrum of languages that allow us to rank corpora. We also show how our word evaluations can be used to construct physical-like instruments for both real-time and offline measurement of the emotional content of large-scale texts.

引用

页码：2389 / 2394

页数：6

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