{"id":1887,"date":"2016-11-28T16:51:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T16:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2016-11-28T16:55:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T16:55:01","slug":"with-shifts-in-national-mood-come-shifts-in-the-words-we-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"With shifts in national mood come shifts in the words we use&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                        <\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=1887\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">In the wake of the election (and our Thanksgiving dinner), it\u2019s clear that American society has been fractured. Negative emotions are running amok, and countless words of anger and frustration have been spilled. If you were to analyze any news outlet for the ratio of positive emotional words to negative ones, would you find a dip linked to the events of the past few weeks?<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">It\u2019s possible! This comes from a research <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1612058113\">study<\/a> published last week in <a class=\"meta-org\" title=\"More articles about Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/p\/proceedings_of_the_national_academy_of_sciences\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a>. Analyzing <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/ngrams\">Google Books<\/a> and The New York Times\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/browser\/\">archives<\/a> from the last 200 years, the researchers examined a curious phenomenon known as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/24\/science\/why-we-all-sound-like-pollyannas.html?_r=0\">positive linguistic bias<\/a>,\u201d which refers to people\u2019s tendency to use more positive words than negative words. Though the bias is robust \u2014 and found consistently across cultures and languages \u2014 social scientists are at odds about what causes it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">In this study, the authors shed light on some possible new patterns of communication that are\u00a0 behind the effect. <strong>Across two centuries\u2019 of texts<\/strong>, they found that people\u2019s preference for positive words varied with national mood, and declined during times of war and economic hardship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/27\/science\/language-negative-words.html?mwrsm=Email\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this NYT article by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the election (and our Thanksgiving dinner), it\u2019s clear that American society has been fractured. Negative emotions are running amok, and countless words of anger and frustration have been spilled. If you were to analyze any news &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=1887\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-latest-news-ideas-problems-strategies-and-tactics-in-securing-cyberspace-and-virtual-organizations-discussed-by-experts-in-industries-as-well-as-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}