Erratum: Linguistic positivity in historical texts reflects dynamic environmental and psychological factors (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2016) 113 (E7871-E7879) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1612058113);Linguistic positivity in historical texts reflects dynamic environmental and psychological factors

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

Volumn 113, Issue 49, 2016, Pages E7871-E7879

  Iliev, Rumen ^a   Hoover, Joe ^b   Dehghani, Morteza ^b   Axelrod, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated text analysis; Pollyanna hypothesis; Positivity in language; Subjective happiness

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE BIAS; ENGLISH (LANGUAGE); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HAPPINESS; HISTORICAL PERIOD; HISTORICAL TEXT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTIC POSITIVITY BIAS; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOOD; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY;

EID: 85002789933     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1620120114     Document Type: Erratum

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