“Automatic or the People?” Anger on September 11, 2001, and Lessons Learned for the Analysis of Large Digital Data Sets.

A response to a commentary by C. L. S. Pury that appears in this issue on pp. 835–836. Pury pointed out the insufficiency of the control routine the writers used in their study of emotional words included in messages sent to text pagers during September 1, 2001. The writers agree, noting in partic...

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Publicado en:	Psychological Science. Vol. 22; no. 6; pp. 837 - 839
Autores principales:	Back, Mitja D., Küfner, Albrecht C. P., Egloff, Boris
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	HWW Temp June 2011
Materias:	September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Emotional trauma Anger Automation Text processing (Computer science)
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Sumario:	A response to a commentary by C. L. S. Pury that appears in this issue on pp. 835–836. Pury pointed out the insufficiency of the control routine the writers used in their study of emotional words included in messages sent to text pagers during September 1, 2001. The writers agree, noting in particular that they did not anticipate that emotionally irrelevant, automatically generated messages would be incorrectly classified by Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count as anger related and at the same time show a nonrandom time course—an unexpected confound that distorted their findings for anger. They discuss what can be learned from this scientific exchange.