Slide Set 20: Linguistic Pollyanna Principle: The positivity bias of language | Principles of Complex Systems, Vol. 2

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Slide Set 20: Linguistic Pollyanna Principle: The positivity bias of language

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Slide Set 21: The Lexicocalorimeter

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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)

Clip 6: Bad mistakes commonly made in word analysis (5:38)