International Workshop on Challenges and Visions in the Social Sciences

The emotional content of large-scale texts: The happiness of bloggers, song lyrics, and presidents

author: Peter S. Dodds, University of Vermont

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*Slides*
0:00	The emotional content of large-scale texts
0:53	Outline
2:06	Happiness part1
2:45	Happiness part2
4:07	United States’ Declaration of Independence
4:13	Happiness part3
4:38	What makes us happy? part1
5:09	What makes us happy? part2
5:38	Desiring happiness—not just for boffins part1
6:01	Desiring happiness—not just for boffins part2
6:33	Emotional content part1
6:55	Emotional content part2
7:12	Emotional content part3
8:05	Emotional content part4
9:31	Measuring Emotional Content part1
9:57	Measuring Emotional Content part2
12:03	Measuring Emotional Content part3
13:32	Measuring Emotional Content part4
13:37	Measuring Emotional Content part5
14:11	Measuring Emotional Content part6
15:14	ANEW study part1
15:29	ANEW study part2
15:52	ANEW study part3
16:45	ANEW study—three 1–9 scales
17:00	ANEW study—three 1–9 scales
17:15	ANEW words—examples
18:13	Analysing text
19:15	Unhappiness part1
19:43	Unhappiness part2
19:44	Unhappiness part3
19:46	Unhappiness part4
19:55	Data sets
20:20	Data sets part2
21:22	wefeelfine.org part1
21:52	wefeelfine.org part2
22:20	Some demographisc...
23:03	Some numbers
24:18	Most frequent ANEW words
25:07	Outline - Songs
25:19	Lyrics
26:07	Lyrics—measurement robustness
27:03	Lyrics—average valence of genres
27:48	Valence shift details part1
28:27	Valence shift details part2
28:58	Valence Shift
30:01	Top 50 of ' 20,000 artists
30:44	Bottom 50 of ' 20,000 artists
30:47	Outline - Blogs
30:51	Blogs—Overall trend
31:55	2005/12/25 compared to 2005/12
32:42	2007/02/14 compared to 2007/02
33:08	2006/09/11 compared to 2006/09
34:07	Blogs—Age part1
34:19	Blogs—Age part2
34:44	Blogs—Age part3
34:47	Blogs—Age part4
35:07	Blogs—Age part5
35:23	Blogs
36:23	14 year olds compared to born 1960−1969
36:50	Blogs - Latitude
37:48	Blogs—day of the week
38:41	Female compared to Male
39:43	Outline - SOTU
39:49	Presidential happiness
41:41	Measuring Emotional Content part1
42:59	Measuring Emotional Content part2
44:03	Where do superstars come from?
44:25	Dominance hierarchies part1
45:15	Dominance hierarchies part2
46:09	Music Lab Experiment part1
47:03	Music Lab Experiment part2
47:42	Music Lab Experiment part3
48:06	Music Lab Experiment part4
49:05	Music Lab Experiment part5
49:34	Music Lab Experiment part6
51:19	Music Lab Experiment part7
51:20	Music Lab Experiment part8
51:22	Music Lab Experiment part9
51:34	Music Lab Experiment part10
51:34	Music Lab Experiment part11
51:37	Music Lab Experiment—Sneakiness part1
53:17	Music Lab Experiment—Sneakiness part2
53:19	Music Lab Experiment—Sneakiness part3
53:20	Closing aside on Prediction part1
53:31	Closing aside on Prediction part2
53:42	Closing aside on Prediction part3
53:53	Closing aside on Prediction part4
53:54	Closing aside on Prediction part5
53:58	Economics, Schmeconomics part1
53:59	Economics, Schmeconomics part2
54:02	Economics, Schmeconomics part3
54:05	Economics, Schmeconomics part4
54:05	Economics, Schmeconomics part5
54:09	Economics, Schmeconomics part6
54:16	Economics, Schmeconomics part7
54:23	Economics, Schmeconomics part8
54:40	References I
54:42	References II
54:44	References III
54:46	References IV
54:48	References V

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