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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol., 02 August 2018
Sec. Personality and Social Psychology
Volume 9 - 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01333

When Words Hurt: Affective Word Use in Daily News Coverage Impacts Mental Health

Jolie B. Wormwood1* Madeleine Devlin1 Yu-Ru Lin2 Lisa Feldman Barrett1,3 Karen S. Quigley1,4
  • 1Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
  • 2School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
  • 3Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, United States
  • 4Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial (VA) Medical Center, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Bedford, MA, United States

This article has been retracted. Please follow the link to the full retraction notice for details.

Citation: Wormwood JB, Devlin M, Lin Y-R, Barrett LF and Quigley KS (2018) When Words Hurt: Affective Word Use in Daily News Coverage Impacts Mental Health. Front. Psychol. 9:1333. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01333

Received: 01 March 2018; Accepted: 11 July 2018;
Published: 02 August 2018; Retracted: 17 December 2020.

Edited by:

Gilad Hirschberger, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel

Reviewed by:

Harrison Oakes, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ezgi Besikci, Uşak University, Turkey
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