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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 796-806 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Behaviour & Information Technology |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| Early online date | 4 Dec 2018 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Abstract
Keywords
- anger, disasters, emotions, man-made attacks, sadness, Wikipedia
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)
- General Social Sciences
- Psychology(all)
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Arts and Humanities(all)
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Computer Science(all)
- Human-Computer Interaction
Sustainable Development Goals
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In: Behaviour & Information Technology, Vol. 38, No. 8, 2019, p. 796-806.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotions in Wikipedia
T2 - The role of intended negative events in the expression of sadness and anger in online peer production
AU - Greving, Hannah
AU - Kimmerle, Joachim
AU - Oeberst, Aileen
AU - Cress, Ulrike
N1 - Funding Information: The authors are very grateful to Laura Hertner and Anne Kon-rad for their help with data assessment and documentation.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has strict guidelines for ensuring the objectivity of its content and unbiased language of its articles. Wikipedia also provides articles on negative events such as disasters. Depending on the event, the Wikipedia community may express certain emotions when writing Wikipedia articles on those events. So far, it is unclear which psychological mechanisms are reflected in the potential emotional expressions. Based on appraisal theories of specific emotions and on previous research on intentional harm, we investigated whether intentional negative events such as terrorist attacks elicited different emotional expressions than unintentional negative events, such as natural or man-made disasters. We analysed N = 330 Wikipedia articles with automatic linguistic text analyses and found that Wikipedia articles on man-made attacks (e.g. terrorist attacks, shooting rampages) contained more anger-related content than Wikipedia articles on man-made disasters (e.g. ship accidents, train accidents) and natural disasters (e.g. hurricanes, flooding); F (2, 327) = 127.78, p
AB - The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has strict guidelines for ensuring the objectivity of its content and unbiased language of its articles. Wikipedia also provides articles on negative events such as disasters. Depending on the event, the Wikipedia community may express certain emotions when writing Wikipedia articles on those events. So far, it is unclear which psychological mechanisms are reflected in the potential emotional expressions. Based on appraisal theories of specific emotions and on previous research on intentional harm, we investigated whether intentional negative events such as terrorist attacks elicited different emotional expressions than unintentional negative events, such as natural or man-made disasters. We analysed N = 330 Wikipedia articles with automatic linguistic text analyses and found that Wikipedia articles on man-made attacks (e.g. terrorist attacks, shooting rampages) contained more anger-related content than Wikipedia articles on man-made disasters (e.g. ship accidents, train accidents) and natural disasters (e.g. hurricanes, flooding); F (2, 327) = 127.78, p
KW - anger
KW - disasters
KW - emotions
KW - man-made attacks
KW - sadness
KW - Wikipedia
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85058108047&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/0144929x.2018.1554702
DO - 10.1080/0144929x.2018.1554702
M3 - Article
VL - 38
SP - 796
EP - 806
JO - Behaviour & Information Technology
JF - Behaviour & Information Technology
SN - 1362-3001
IS - 8
ER -