CellWell record HH-42589
Human language reveals a universal positivity bias
Dodds PS; Clark EM; Desu S; Frank MR; Reagan AJ; Williams JR; Mitchell L; Harris KD; Kloumann IM; Bagrow JP; Megerdoomian K; McMahon MT; Tivnan BF; Danforth CM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ยท 2015
In plain language
Human ratings of 100,000 words across 24 corpora in 10 languages found that the words of natural language carry a universal positivity bias, independent of how often each word is used.
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