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Emma S. Gueorguieva

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Emotions are products of our interactions with the world-particularly our interactions between others and ourselves-which makes them inherently social. Language, by definition, is social in that it is used to convey our thoughts and feelings to others. The language individuals use can reveal important details about their cognitive, social, and psychological states surrounding their emotions. Therefore, analyzing language use during emotional expression may reveal valuable insight about emotions. In this study, we collected emotionally expressive writing samples from over 24,000 individuals in both experimental (Prolific) and naturalistic (Reddit) contexts. Using LIWC-22 to analyze the text data, we examine (a) potential differences in language use between the expression of five emotions (anger, anxiety, happiness, love, and sadness), and (b) potential differences in emotional expression between context (the lab vs. the real world). Our findings indicate that function words (particularly pronouns), social references, and emotion words differed between emotions. Traditional research in psychology and computer science tends to consider emotional experiences as revealed through the use of emotion language. However, the present research suggests that-although they are non-emotion words- pronouns and other social references serve as an important contextual variable in emotional expression. Moreover, the differences between emotions across contexts for non-emotion words suggest that emotional expression in the lab differs from the "real-world" setting. Studying the usage of non-emotion words during emotional expression can reveal meaningful insights that can aid in the development of a reliable emotion detection model for text. Poster #7 Marketing Misery and Selling Sang: Commercialization of Demotivation Emily Curtis Academy of Undergraduate Researchers Across Texas - Texas A&M University

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Texas A&M University / 2023

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Emma S. Gueorguieva