Twitter language use reflects psychological differences between Democrats and Republicans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Sylwester, Karolina ^a   Purver, Matthew ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; ORGANIZATION; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; RELIGION; SOCIAL NETWORK; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGY;

BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

EID: 84945942743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137422     Document Type: Article

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