Do emotions expressed online correlate with actual changes in decision-making?: The case of stock day traders

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Liu, Bin ^a   Govindan, Ramesh ^b   Uzzi, Brian ^c  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science ^*  (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; INTERNET; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMMERCE; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84955501431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144945     Document Type: Article

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