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A year of pandemic: levels, changes and validity of well-being data from Twitter : evidence from ten countries
Sarracino, Francesco; Greyling, Talita; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
National Happiness (GNH), a country-level index built applying sentiment analysis to data from Twitter. We aim to describe how … correlations. We take advantage of a unique dataset of daily observations about GNH, generalised trust and trust in national … the data sourced from Twitter, we exploit various survey data sources, such as the Eurobarometer and consumer satisfaction …
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Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies : evidence from ten countries using Big Data
Sarracino, Francesco; Greyling, Talita; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
measures of trust in others and national institutions by applying emotion analysis to Twitter data. We test the predictive role …Previous evidence indicates trust is an important correlate of compliance with COVID-19 containment policies. However … compliance to study the relationship between compliance and trust in others and institutions over the period from March 2020 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170799
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American older adults in the time of COVID-19 : vulnerability types, aging attitudes, and emotional responses
Fu, Mingqi; Guo, Jing; Chen, Xi; Han, Boxun; Ahmed, Farooq - 2022
With 1582 respondents from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), this study investigates the heterogeneity in older adults' vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, aging attitudes and emotional responses. International Positive and Negative Affect Schedule...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012887268
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Punishment, inequality and emotions
Masclet, David (contributor);  … - 2006
Cooperation among people who are not related to each other is sustained by the availability of punishment devices which help enforce social norms (Fehr and Gc̃hter, 2002). However, the rationale for costly punishment remains unclear. This paper reports the results of an experiment investigating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003316486
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Gender, affect and intertemporal consistency : an experimental approach
McLeish, Kendra N. (contributor);  … - 2007
"We conduct experiments in which participants made multiple intertemporal decisions throughout a seven week period. In addition to exploring dynamic consistency and the stability of single period discount rates, our experiments introduce a manipulation to identify the role of positive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003479622
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Priming cooperation in social dilemma games
Drouvelis, Michalis; Metcalfe, Robert M.; Powdthavee, … - 2010
Research on public goods mainly focuses its attention on the ability of incentives, beliefs and group structure to affect behaviour in social dilemma interactions. This paper investigates the pure effects of a rather subtle mechanism on social preferences in a one-shot linear public good game....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968450
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Moody choice
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2010
If choices depend on the decision maker's mood, is the attempt to derive any consistency in choice doomed? In this paper we argue that, even with full unpredictability of mood, the way choices from a menu relate to choices from another menu exhibits some structure. We present two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976547
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Family violence and football : the effect of unexpected emotional cues on violent behavior
Card, David E.; Dahl, Gordon B. - 2010
We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a rationally expected reference point. Our empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951312
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Tax evasion: cheating rationally or deciding emotionally?
Coricelli, Giorgio; Joffily, Mateus; Montmarquette, Claude - 2007
The economic models of tax compliance predict that individuals should evade taxes when the expected benefit of cheating is greater than its expected cost. When this condition is fulfilled, the high compliance however observed remains a puzzle. In this paper, we investigate the role of emotions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571661
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The emotional timeline of unemployment : anticipation, reaction, and adaptation
Scheve, Christian von; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013
Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196016