181 | Peter Dodds on Quantifying the Shape of Stories
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Dynamics of Emotional Language
This chapter examines the evolution of measuring emotional responses to language, focusing on valence, arousal, and dominance through comprehensive datasets. It investigates literary and media analyses while highlighting biases towards positivity and safety in language use, with comparisons across different cultures. The discussion also explores character dynamics in storytelling, revealing how their placement along emotional axes influences narrative depth.
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