emotions

Posted on 2014/11/30 by

Emoticon Love, the Transmission of Affect and Breaking up via Text: New Ways to Map “Emoticontent”

Still feeling depressed after being dumped more than one month earlier, 2 has found difficulty in making sense of a range of negative emotions. Sad YouTube does not help. Nor do a variety of online psychological helpsites. After experimenting with an online “mood journal,” 2 reports an incapacity to “find words to type out the Read More

Posted on 2013/10/23 by

Government Info-Tech Research Officer “Track[s] Emotions in Novels and Fairy Tales”

Maybe we should chat about this: “Empirical assessment of emotions in literary texts has sometimes relied on human annotation” but now an algorithmic “system determines which of the words exist in our emotion lexicon and calculates ratios such as the number of words associated with an emotion to the total number of emotion words in the text” for novels, Shakespeare, Read More