Affective responses to uncertain real-world outcomes: Sentiment change on Twitter.

We use data from Twitter.com to study the interplay between affect and expectations about uncertain outcomes. In two studies, we obtained tweets about candidates in the 2014 US Senate elections and tweets about National Football League (NFL) teams in the 2014/2015 NFL season. We chose these events b...

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Main Authors: Sudeep Bhatia, Barbara Mellers, Lukasz Walasek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212489