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Expression of negative emotional responses to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake: Analysis of big data from social media

Overview of attention for article published in Japanese Journal of Psychology, January 2015
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Title
Expression of negative emotional responses to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake: Analysis of big data from social media
Published in
Japanese Journal of Psychology, January 2015
DOI 10.4992/jjpsy.86.13076
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Authors

Asako Miura, Masashi Komori, Naohiro Matsumura, Kazutoshi Maeda

Abstract

In this article, we investigated the expression of emotional responses to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake by analyzing the frequency of negative emotional terms in tweets posted on Twitter, one of the most popular social media platforms. We focused on differences in time-series variations and diurnal changes between two kinds of disasters: natural disasters (earthquakes and tsunamis) and nuclear accidents. The number of tweets containing negative emotional responses increased sharply shortly after the first huge earthquake and decreased over time, whereas tweets about nuclear accidents showed no correlation with elapsed time. Expressions of anxiety about natural disasters had a circadian rhythm, with a peak at midnight, whereas expressions of anger about the nuclear accident were highly sensitive to critical events related to the accident. These findings were discussed in terms of similarities and differences compared to earlier studies on emotional responses in social media.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 42 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 23%
Student > Master 6 14%
Researcher 6 14%
Student > Bachelor 4 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Other 5 12%
Unknown 10 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 10 23%
Social Sciences 5 12%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 9%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 5%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 13 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 38. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 May 2020.
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#1,083,794
of 25,628,260 outputs
Outputs from Japanese Journal of Psychology
#16
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#13,882
of 360,954 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Japanese Journal of Psychology
#3
of 27 outputs
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