On 9/11, Americans may not have been as angry as you thought they were
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 10:30
in Psychology & Sociology
On September 11, 2001, the air was sizzling with angerand the anger got hotter as the hours passed. That, anyway, was one finding of a 2010 analysis by Mitja Back, Albrecht Küfner, and Boris Egloff of 85,000 pager messages sent that day. The researchers employed a commonly used tool called Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, or LIWC, which teases out information from the frequency of word usages in texts.