Collective Emotions and Social Resilience in the Digital Traces After a Terrorist Attack
Collective Emotions and Social Resilience in the Digital Traces After a Terrorist Attack
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797619831964
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发表时间：
2019-04-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Rime, Bernard
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作者：
Garcia, David;Rime, Bernard
在自然灾害和恐怖袭击等集体创伤之后，有关社区的成员会经历强烈的情绪，并对这些情绪进行大量讨论。虽然这些交流类似于简单的情感发泄，但涂尔干的集体情感理论假设这些集体情感会导致受影响社区的更高水平的团结。我们通过分析2015年11月巴黎恐怖袭击后62,114名Twitter用户的数字痕迹，首次对这一理论进行了大规模测试。我们发现一个集体的负面情绪反应，其次是一个显着的长期增加使用的词汇指标有关的团结。社会过程的表达，亲社会行为和积极的影响，在袭击后的几个月内更高的个人谁参与了更高程度的集体情绪。我们的研究结果支持这样的结论，即灾难后的集体情绪与更高的团结，揭示了社会的社会弹性。
After collective traumas such as natural disasters and terrorist attacks, members of concerned communities experience intense emotions and talk profusely about them. Although these exchanges resemble simple emotional venting, Durkheim's theory of collective effervescence postulates that these collective emotions lead to higher levels of solidarity in the affected community. We present the first large-scale test of this theory through the analysis of digital traces of 62,114 Twitter users after the Paris terrorist attacks of November 2015. We found a collective negative emotional response followed by a marked long-term increase in the use of lexical indicators related to solidarity. Expressions of social processes, prosocial behavior, and positive affect were higher in the months after the attacks for the individuals who participated to a higher degree in the collective emotion. Our findings support the conclusion that collective emotions after a disaster are associated with higher solidarity, revealing the social resilience of a community.