The Influence of Prosocial and Antisocial Emotions on the Spread of Weibo Posts: A Study of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Table 1
Examples of prosocial and antisocial Weibo posts and their emotion scores.
Weibo posts
Emotion tendency
Emotion score
1
Different lantern festival, thanksgiving care. Looking forward to the epidemic early past, about three or five friends together to spring
Prosocial society
0.3321
2
The army's success in developing the new crown vaccine is so exciting
Prosocial society
0.3885
3
Isolate virus does not isolate love ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Prosocial society
0.3910
4
I hope everyone is well, which country you are! Really!!! The world is beautiful. Don't waste your life on viruses∼
Prosocial society
0.3771
5
This time we go out as little as possible, where more people go less, go out must remember to wear masks, prevent and cure virus infection, the new year hope @ Xiao Jie-crazy and roll happy #2020 new year #
Prosocial society
0.3877
6
We sincerely wish to report that dogs are infected with coronavirus and die immediately
Antisocial
−0.3942
7
What is the most terrible is not a virus, not a disease, not a monster, not a ghost or a man
Antisocial
−0.3800
8
Rumors of some celebrity mothers dying of COVID-19
Antisocial
−0.3862
9
Kill bats? Really illiterate? An indispensable important species in the food chain. You say extinction is extinction?
