Social scientists have become increasingly interested in how narratives—the stories in
fiction, politics, and life—shape beliefs, behavior, and government policies. This paper …

Social scientists have become increasingly interested in how narratives--the stories in
fiction, politics, and life--shape beliefs, behavior, and government policies. This paper …

We develop social network and “relative sentiment shift” analysis techniques to study how
financial narratives influence financial markets. First, we analyze Reuters News articles …

Scholars across disciplines have long debated the existence of a common structure that
underlies narratives. Using computer-based language analysis methods, several structural …

Over the past decade, sociologists have become increasingly interested in the formal study
of semantic relations within text. Most contemporary studies focus either on mapping …

Human communication is invariably executed in the form of a narrative, an account of
connected events comprising characters, actions, and settings. A coherent and well …

The financial press is a conduit for popular narratives that reflect collective memory about
historical events. Some collective memories relate to major stock market crashes, and …

Background/purpose Convenient access to vast and untapped collections of documents
generated by organizations is a highly valuable resource for research. These documents …

During political campaigns, candidates use rhetoric to advance competing visions and
assessments of their country. Research reveals that the moral language used in this rhetoric …

Narrative research has become increasingly popular in the social sciences. While no part of
the process is easy, researchers often struggle to make sense of data that can seem chaotic …