Fig. 4: Word clouds showing words indicative of the four emotional states. | Communications Psychology

Fig. 4: Word clouds showing words indicative of the four emotional states.

From: Question-based computational language approach outperforms rating scales in quantifying emotional states

Fig. 4

The word clouds show from left to right harmony (black), satisfaction (red), depression (dark blue), and anxiety (light blue). The number of words in the dataset was N = 3787. The number of words in the figure is N = 100. The size of the words is proportional to the word frequency, and the most indicative words are in the center of the figure. Notice that some words (e.g., happy) were indicative of more than one emotion. Also, notice that words were generated by participants in both Phase 1 and 2, so the words that participants were not allowed to use in a specific condition in Phase 1 (e.g., “depression” in the depression condition), could be generated by Phase 2 participants, or by Phase 1 participants that were in another condition (i.e., “depression” was allowed to use in the “anxiety” condition in Phase 1). The image was created using SemanticExcel38.

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