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  • Social Psychology
  • Media Studies
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Media narratives frequently contrast self-interested behavior with collective responsibility during disasters.
  • Understanding the emotional construction of selfishness in disaster media is crucial for public perception and response.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the emotional construction of self-interested behavior in disaster-related news articles.
  • To analyze the relationship between emotions and topics in media portrayals of selfishness.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of 12 news articles focusing on selfish behavior during disasters.
  • Transformer-based sentence-level emotion classification (tweetnlp RoBERTa model) predicting 11 emotion categories.
  • Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling and quantification of emotion-topic relationships.

Main Results:

  • Fear and disgust are dominant emotions in portraying self-interested behavior.
  • Anticipation links to harm, while anger connects to inequality and institutional accountability.
  • Two configurations emerged: 'Responsibility Across Individuals and Institutions' and 'Collective Fear and Self-Protective Practices'.

Conclusions:

  • Disaster reporting shapes perceptions of selfishness through emotional-semantic patterns.
  • Media positions individual actions within broader social risk and collective responsibility frameworks.
  • Negative emotions prevail, but conditional optimism signals recovery and coordination.