Negativity spreads more than positivity on Twitter after both positive and negative political situations

JP Schöne, B Parkinson, A Goldenberg - Affective Science, 2021 - Springer
What type of emotional language spreads further in political discourses on social media?
Previous research has focused on situations that primarily elicited negative emotions …

Politics is making us sick: The negative impact of political engagement on public health during the Trump administration

KB Smith - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Objectives To quantify the effect of politics on the physical, psychological, and social health
of American adults during the four-year span of the Trump administration. Methods A …

Cognition and emotion in extreme political action: Individual differences and dynamic interactions

L Zmigrod, A Goldenberg - Current Directions in …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Who is most likely to join and engage in extreme political action? Although traditional
theories have focused on situational factors or group identity, an emerging science …

Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election

S Mukhopadhyay - Economics & Human Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we examine the effect of the 2020 presidential election on anxiety and
depression among Americans. We use data from the 2020 Household Pulse Survey (HPS) …

Negative expressions are shared more on Twitter for public figures than for ordinary users

JP Schöne, D Garcia, B Parkinson, A Goldenberg - PNAS nexus, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Social media users tend to produce content that contains more positive than negative
emotional language. However, negative emotional language is more likely to be shared. To …

Cognition and emotion in extreme political action

L Zmigrod, A Goldenberg - 2020 - osf.io
Who is most likely to join and engage in extreme political action? While traditional theories
have focused on situational factors or group identity attributes, an emerging science …