Directions: Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting you position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold to and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Your article should be written on Answer Sheet Two in no less than 250 words.
Anger spreads faster than joy?
In an extensive study of 200,000 Weibo users, researchers at Beihang University have found that people suck, basically. We find the correlation of anger among users is significantly higher than that of joy, which indicates that angry emotion could spread more quickly and broadly in the network.
To ensure that they only studied people who were strongly connected, Rui and co only included people who had more than 30 interactions during the test period.
Next, they determined the sentiment of each tweet in their database by analyzing the emoticons they contained. They divided these into four categories, expressing joy, sadness, anger or disgust.
Finally, they studied the way sentiments spread through the network. For example, if one person sent an angry tweet, how likely was it that a recipient would also send an angry message, and how likely was it that the recipient of this message would pass on the same sentiment and so on?
