Online anger spreads faster than joy on Weibo
By analyzing the influence messages had with other users‚ they
observed angry sentiments were more rapidly shared.
than other emotions such as
joy‚ scientists say.
A team analysed the word choice
A team analysed the word choice
and emoticons of people's posts
on the Chinese social network
Weibo and split them into the
categories of anger‚ sadness‚ joy
and disgust.
By analyzing the influence messages
had with other users‚ they observed
angry sentiments were more
rapidly shared.
The study has been published on
the Arxiv pre-print server‚ though it has yet to be subjected to peer review.
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