Negative emotions boost user activity at BBC forum

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 390, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 2936-2944

  Chmiel, Anna ^a   Sobkowicz, Pawel ^a   Sienkiewicz, Julian ^a   Paltoglou, Georgios ^b   Buckley, Kevan ^b   Thelwall, Mike ^b   Hoyst, Janusz A ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent modeling; Collective phenomena; Emotions; Internet communities; Scale free distributions

Indexed keywords

PHYSICS;

AGENT MODEL; COLLECTIVE PHENOMENA; EMOTIONS; INTERNET COMMUNITIES; SCALE-FREE DISTRIBUTIONS;

SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 79956350539     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.03.040     Document Type: Article

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