Positivity Bias in the English Language (IMAGE)

University of Vermont

Positivity Bias in the English Language

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These are graphs showing the distributions of happiness scores for the 5,000 most frequently used words in four sources: the New York Times, Twitter, Google Books, and music lyrics. The yellow shade indicates words with average happiness scores above the neutral value of 5, gray those below.

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University of Vermont, published in <I>PLoS ONE</I>, January 11, 2012

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