The emotional effect of terrorism
Vincenzo Bove, Georgios Efthyvoulou, Armine Ghazaryan, Harry Pickard · 2024
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Vincenzo Bove and colleagues measured how terrorist attacks change public emotions, using social media posts from hundreds of thousands of users. Attacks aim in part to spread fear and shift attitudes, yet those reactions are hard to capture as they happen. Writing in twenty twenty-four, the team tracked wording tied to specific feelings before and after attacks. They compared spikes across attacks with different traits, such as target and scale, and they checked whether feelings about immigration moved at the same time.
Attacks produced sharp spikes in several negative feelings, including fear, anger, and sadness. The mix and size of the spike depended on attack traits. Shifts in emotion came with changed feelings about immigration, a link the authors flag for policy debates. The study shows how large online data sets can time emotional shocks with unusual precision.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Vincenzo Bove, Georgios Efthyvoulou, Armine Ghazaryan, Harry Pickard |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |