Positivity of the English language

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kloumann, Isabel M ^a   Danforth, Christopher M ^a,b   Harris, Kameron Decker ^a   Bliss, Catherine A ^a   Dodds, Peter Sheridan ^a,b  

^a University of Vermont   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; ENGLISH LANGUAGE; HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC; LANGUAGE; MUSIC; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; WORD RECOGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS;

CONCEPT FORMATION; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84855674781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029484     Document Type: Article

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