Journal article
Affective biases in English are bi-dimensional
Abstract
A long-standing observation about the interface between emotion and language is that positive words are used more frequently than negative ones, leading to the Pollyanna hypothesis which alleges a predominantly optimistic outlook in humans. This paper uses the largest available collection of affective ratings as well as insights from linguistics to revisit the Pollyanna hypothesis as it relates to two dimensions of emotion: valence …
Authors
Warriner AB; Kuperman V
Journal
Cognition & Emotion, Vol. 29, No. 7, pp. 1147–1167
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
October 3, 2015
DOI
10.1080/02699931.2014.968098
ISSN
0269-9931