{"id":6380,"date":"2018-11-21T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2018-11-24T17:50:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T22:50:24","slug":"canadians-and-americans-twitter-language-mirrors-national-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/canadians-and-americans-twitter-language-mirrors-national-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians’ and Americans’ Twitter language mirrors national stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPublished\u00a0November 21, 2018\u00a0\u00a014:00 ET<\/strong> (News release<\/a> from McMaster University)
\nDifferences in the language used in nearly 40-million tweets reflect national stereotypes \u2013 Canadians tend to be polite and nice while Americans are negative and assertive \u2013 even if the stereotypes aren’t accurate. Researchers isolated words, emoticons, and emojis used disproportionately on Twitter by individuals from each country to better understand national identity on a mass scale and where stereotypes might originate.<\/p>\n

Canadian co-authors:<\/strong> Bryor Snefjella, McMaster University –\u00a0snefjebn@mcmaster.ca<\/a>; Victor Kuperman, McMaster University –\u00a0vickup@mcmaster.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PLOS ONE Published\u00a0November 21, 2018\u00a0\u00a014:00 ET (News release from McMaster University) Differences in the language used in nearly 40-million tweets reflect national stereotypes \u2013 Canadians tend to be polite and nice while Americans are negative and assertive \u2013 even if the stereotypes aren’t accurate. Researchers isolated words, emoticons, and emojis used disproportionately on Twitter by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/unnamed-3.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1EU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6436,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions\/6436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}