The language-dependent relationship between word happiness and frequency

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 23, 2015, Pages E2983-

  Garcia, David ^a   Garas, Antonios ^a   Schweitzer, Frank ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOK; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FREQUENCY; GOLD STANDARD; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LETTER; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNHAPPINESS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE;

EID: 84931281470     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1502909112     Document Type: Letter

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