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SUBMITTER: Choi VK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8795557 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choi Virginia K VK Shrestha Snehesh S Pan Xinyue X Gelfand Michele J MJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20220101 4
In today's vast digital landscape, people are constantly exposed to threatening language, which attracts attention and activates the human brain's fear circuitry. However, to date, we have lacked the tools needed to identify threatening language and track its impact on human groups. To fill this gap, we developed a threat dictionary, a computationally derived linguistic tool that indexes threat levels from mass communication channels. We demonstrate this measure's convergent validity with object ...[more]