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Happiness across languages

This graph from a new UVM study shows distributions of perceived average word happiness from 24 sources in ten languages; yellow= positivity, blue=negativity. The upshot: we—humanity—use more happy words than sad words. (Image courtesy Peter Dodds et al., PNAS)

 

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Uploaded on February 9, 2015