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closeMedia Coverage of This Article
Posted by PLOS_ONE_Group on 13 Jan 2012 at 19:48 GMT
The following article represents some of the media coverage that has occurred for this paper:
Publication: Medical Daily
Title: “Medical Daily: Pollyanna Principle May Be Right: People Tend to Use Happier Words”
http://www.medicaldaily.c...
Publication: io9
Title: “Language is hardwired to be optimistic, even if people aren't”
http://io9.com/5875679/la...
Publication: Newstrack India
Title: “English language 'strongly biased toward being happy'”
http://www.newstrackindia...
Publication: Psych Central
Title: “Happiness May be Down But Language Stays Positive | Psych Central News”
http://psychcentral.com/n...
Publication: University of Vermont
Title: “Study: We May Be Less Happy, But Our Language Isn't”
http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr...
If you see any additional coverage of this paper in the press or blogosphere, please reply to this thread and add the link to the article.
RE: Media Coverage of This Article
JoshuaBrown replied to PLOS_ONE_Group on 20 Jan 2012 at 16:56 GMT
Saw this French language newspaper story, in Le Monde, about the study:
http://passeurdesciences....
RE: RE: Media Coverage of This Article
PLOS_ONE_Group replied to JoshuaBrown on 27 Jan 2012 at 21:34 GMT
The following article represents some of the media coverage that has occurred for this paper:
Publication: The Atlantic
Title: “Study of the Day: English Is an Overwhelmingly Positive Language”
http://www.theatlantic.co...
Publication: LiveScience
Title: “English Is an Optimistic Language, Study Suggests”
http://www.livescience.co...
If you see any additional coverage of this paper in the press or blogosphere, please reply to this thread and add the link to the article.