Measuring emotional contagion in social media

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Ferrara, Emilio ^a,b   Yang, Zeyao ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MODEL; RANDOM SAMPLE; SOCIAL MEDIA; STIMULUS; EMOTION; EMPATHY; LANGUAGE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84952836916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142390     Document Type: Article

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