What Is Happiness? Word Embeddings Quantify Concept of Happiness Across 40 Years in China
Using the news from People’s Daily (1979~2020), we utilized the word embeddings technique to demonstrate how the relationship between “happiness” and its five dimensions (e.g., physical need) embeddings helps to quantify the concept of happiness in China and how the temporal dynamics of the embeddings capture societal shifts.
Citation:
Zhiqiang Li, Yaxuan Ran, and Jiani Liu (2021) ,"What Is Happiness? Word Embeddings Quantify Concept of Happiness Across 40 Years in China", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49, eds. Tonya Williams Bradford, Anat Keinan, and Matthew Matthew Thomson, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 909-909.
Authors
Zhiqiang Li, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
Yaxuan Ran, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
Jiani Liu, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
Volume
NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49 | 2021
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