#procrastination Wednesday:
Everforest color scheme for Micro text editor. (https://github.com/zyedidia/micro). Just enough colors without too many distractions.
#procrastination Wednesday:
Everforest color scheme for Micro text editor. (https://github.com/zyedidia/micro). Just enough colors without too many distractions.
🚨 New preprint! Our work on machine learning approach to facial emotion detection in political speeches in on ArXiv.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09914
We processed 77 hours of video and found that populist leaders express negative emotions more often than their non-populist counterparts.
Populist rhetoric employed on online media is characterized as deeply impassioned and often imbued with strong emotions. The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the differences in affective nonverbal communication of political leaders. We use a deep-learning approach to process a sample of 220 YouTube videos of political leaders from 15 different countries, analyze their facial expressions of emotion and then examine differences in average emotion scores representing the relative presence of 6 emotional states (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise) and a neutral expression for each frame of the YouTube video. Based on a sample of manually coded images, we find that this deep-learning approach has 53-60\% agreement with human labels. We observe statistically significant differences in the average score of negative emotions between groups of leaders with varying degrees of populist rhetoric.