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Peng Wang1, Huimin Shi1, Xiaojie Wu1
1School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China.
Abstract:
(1) Background: in early 2020, COVID-19 broke out. Driven by people's psychology of conformity, panic, group polarization, etc., various rumors appeared and spread wildly, and the Internet became a hotbed of rumors. (2) Methods: the study selected Weibo as the research media, using topic models, time series analysis, sentiment analysis, and Granger causality testing methods to analyze the social media texts related to COVID-19 rumors. (3) Results: in study 1, we obtained 21 topics related to "COVID-19 rumors" and "outbreak rumors" after conducting topic model analysis on Weibo texts; in study 2, we explored the emotional changes of netizens before and after rumor dispelling information was released and found people's positive emotions first declined and then rose; in study 3, we also explored the emotional changes of netizens before and after the "Wuhan lockdown" event and found positive sentiment of people in non-Wuhan areas increased, while negative sentiment of people in Wuhan increased; in study 4, we studied the relationship between rumor spread and emotional polarity and found negative sentiment and rumor spread was causally interrelated. (4) Conclusion: These findings could help us to intuitively understand the impact of rumors spread on people's emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic and help the government take measures to reduce panic.
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