Linguistic Pollyanna Principle: The positivity bias of language
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Covered in these episode(s) and clip(s):
Clip 1: Pollyanna Principle for English (14:27)
Clip 2: Jellyfish plots! (8:27)
Clip 3: Pollyanna Principle for 10 languages (9:23)
Clip 4: More jellyfish, comments on Google books, translations (5:13)
Clip 5: Translation stable words (8:02)