ABSTRACT
The effect of information sentiment on popularity is meaningful to understand the information content on social media. The present research examined whether emotion values of information could predict the potential of popularity in two psychoinformatic experiments. A prime task was used with popular/unpopular information as prime and high/low sentiment stimuli as targets. In Experiment 1, we observed that unpopular information survived better than popular information. In Experiment 2, the electrophysiological priming effect was observed for unpopular and popular information. According to the findings, sentiment of information on social media plays a key role in information popularity.
Acknowledgments
We are appreciated that suggestion provided by Yufeng Dong about drafted manuscript. We also thank Zhongju Liao for the discussion on experiment design. We thank Xiaoyu Xu, Jing Yang, Hai Liu for collecting data.
Author Contributions
YH developed the study concept. All authors contributed to the study design. Testing and data collection were performed by YH and YS. YH performed the data analysis under the supervision of XP, YM and QM. YH drafted the manuscript, and XP, YS, YM, QM provided critical revisions. LS provided help for the ERP study. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript for submission.
Data Availability
All data in the manuscript are available when requested.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.