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Title: Morality-based assertion and homophily on social media: A cultural comparison between english and japanese languages
Authors: Singh, M.
Kaur, R.
Matsuo, A.
Iyengar, S.R.S.
Sasahara, K.
Keywords: Culture
J-MFD
MFD
Moral emotions
Moral homophily
Morality
Social networks
Issue Date: 18-Aug-2022
Abstract: Moral psychology is a domain that deals with moral identity, appraisals and emotions. Previous work has primarily focused on moral development and the associated role of culture. Knowing that language is an inherent element of a culture, we used the social media platform Twitter to compare moral behaviors of Japanese tweets with English tweets. The five basic moral foundations, i.e., Care, Fairness, Ingroup, Authority, and Purity, along with the associated emotional valence were compared between English and Japanese tweets. The tweets from Japanese users depicted relatively higher Fairness, Ingroup, and Purity, whereas English tweets expressed more positive emotions for all moral dimensions. Considering moral similarities in connecting users on social media, we quantified homophily concerning different moral dimensions using our proposed method. The moral dimensions Care, Authority, and Purity for English and Ingroup, Authority and Purity for Japanese depicted homophily on Twitter. Overall, our study uncovers the underlying cultural differences with respect to moral behavior in English- and Japanese-speaking users.
URI: http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/3832
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