The impact of event type and geographical proximity on threat appraisal and emotional reactions to Wikipedia articles.

ABSTRACT: The online encyclopedia Wikipedia strives for objectivity and neutrality. However, Wikipedia also provides articles about negative events (e.g., earthquakes, terrorist attacks) that likely elicit strong, negative emotions. These emotions might slip into Wikipedia articles. Previous research has demonstrated that Wikipedia articles on terrorist attacks contained more anger-related content than Wikipedia articles on earthquakes. This previous research focused on the expression of emotional reactions in existing Wikipedia articles and used an automatic linguistic analysis tool that counted the number of emotion-related words. In order to extend this approach, the first aim of the present research was to replicate these findings by focusing on the emotional reactions during and after reading t

SUBMITTER: Greving H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7263619 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature