Emotions are reflected both in verbal and written communication. If in the first case they can be easier to trace due to some specific features (body language, voice tone or inflections), in the second it can be quite tricky to grasp the underlying emotions carried by a written text. Therefore we propose a novel automatic method for analyzing emotions induced by texts, more specifically a reade...

We develop and test a model which links information acquisition decisions to the hedonic utility of information. Acquiring and attending to information increases the psychological impact of information (an impact effect), increases the speed of adjustment for a utility reference-point (a reference-point updating effect), and affects the degree of risk aversion towards randomness in news (a risk...

While governments and academic institutions urge researchers to engage with news media, traditional academic values of public disengagement have inhibited many from giving high priority to media activity. In this interview-based study, the authors report on the views about news media engagement and strategies used by 36 peer-voted leading Australian public health researchers in 6 fields. The au...

Dean Fulgoni, Jordan Carpenter, Lyle Ungar, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro Computer and Information Science, 3330 Walnut St.,Philadelphia, PA 19104 Positive Psychology Center, 3701 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 University of Pennsylvania [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract News sources frame issues in different ways in order to appeal...

We study a dynamic setting in which stochastic information about the value of a privately-informed seller’s asset is gradually revealed to a market of buyers. We characterize the unique equilibrium in a continuous-time framework. The equilibrium involves periods of no trade or market failure. The no-trade period ends in one of two ways: either enough good news arrives restoring confidence and m...

We present new estimates of emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) from rivers and estuaries, using the NEWS-DIN model. NEWS-DIN is a model of the global transport of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) by rivers to coastal waters (Dumont et al. forthcoming). It calculates DIN export rates as a function of watershed characteristics, including human influences. We used the calculated DIN export rates b...

News articles in different languages on the same event are invaluable for analyzing standpoints and viewpoints in different countries. The major challenge to identify such closely related bilingual news articles is how to take full advantage of various information sources such as length, translation equivalence and publishing date. Accordingly, we propose a discriminative model for bilingual ne...

The Effects of Disclosure Regulation on Innovative Firms: Private Values* by Jos Jansen Firms in an R&D race actively manage rivals’ beliefs by disclosing and concealing information on their cost of investment. The firms’ disclosure strategies affect their incentives to invest in R&D, and to acquire information. We compare equilibria under voluntary disclosure with those under mandatory disclos...