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Media 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.

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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....

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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.

Competing interests declared: PLoS ONE Staff