Twitter Language Use Reflects Psychological Differences between Democrats and Republicans.

ABSTRACT: Previous research has shown that political leanings correlate with various psychological factors. While surveys and experiments provide a rich source of information for political psychology, data from social networks can offer more naturalistic and robust material for analysis. This research investigates psychological differences between individuals of different political orientations on a social networking platform, Twitter. Based on previous findings, we hypothesized that the language used by liberals emphasizes their perception of uniqueness, contains more swear words, more anxiety-related words and more feeling-related words than conservatives' language. Conversely, we predicted that the language of conservatives emphasizes group membership and contains more references to achievement a

SUBMITTER: Sylwester K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4574198 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature