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- Title
Inter-City Emotional Synchrony Is Conditional on Mobility Patterns.
- Authors
Vachuska, Karl
- Abstract
Recent research has attempted to document large-scale emotional contagion on online social networks. Despite emotional contagion being primarily driven by in-person mechanisms, less research has attempted to measure large-scale emotional contagion in in-person contexts. In this paper, I operationalize the temporal emotions associated with a particular city at particular points in time using sentiment analysis on Twitter data. Subsequently, I study how emotions converge between seven proximal cities in the state of Virginia, using two-way fixed effect models. I find that positive emotions tend to be synchronous between cities, but that effect is conditional on the level of contact between city residents at that period of time, as indicated by cell phone mobility data. I do not find any synchrony based on other types of emotions or general sentiment. I discourage drawing causal conclusions based on the presumed existence of several unmeasured sources of bias.
- Subjects
VIRGINIA; EMOTIONAL contagion; ONLINE social networks; CONTAGION (Social psychology); FIXED effects model; SYNCHRONIC order
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences (2076-328X), 2022, Vol 12, Issue 11, p410
- ISSN
2076-328X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/bs12110410