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流行病心理学如何在Twitter上发挥作用:美国对COVID-19大流行的反应演变

How Epidemic Psychology Works on Twitter: Evolution of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S

Luca Maria Aiello, Daniele Quercia, Ke Zhou, Marios Constantinides, Sanja Šćepanović, Sagar Joglekar

摘要:

流行病造成的破坏可能往往看起来相当于混乱,但实际上,可以通过“流行病心理学”的视角系统地加以理解。根据流行性传染病社会学研究的创始人菲利普·斯特朗(Philip Strong)的说法,流行病不仅是一种生物学上的流行病,还可能导致三种心理社会流行病:恐惧、道德化和行动。这项工作通过研究2020年全年在美国发布的1.22亿条与COVID-19疫情相关的推文的语言使用情况,对Strong的模型进行了大规模的实证测试。在Twitter上,我们确定了三个不同的阶段。每一种疾病的特点都是三种心理社会流行病的不同状态。在拒绝阶段,尽管其他国家的死亡人数不断增加,但用户拒绝接受现实。在愤怒阶段(在该国宣布第一例死亡事件后开始),用户的恐惧转化为对事情即将发生变化的隐约感觉的愤怒。最后,在当局实施物理距离措施后开始的接受阶段,用户适应了日常活动的“新常态”。总的来说,随着时间的推移,拒绝接受现实的想法逐渐消失,而接受现实的想法越来越多。在2020年,随着案件的一波又一波地激增,愤怒也在每一波中周期性地重新出现。我们对斯特朗模型的实时操作化设计的方式使得将流行病心理学嵌入实时模型成为可能(例如,流行病学和流动性模型)。

英文摘要:

Disruptions resulting from an epidemic might often appear to amount to chaos but, in reality, can be understood in a systematic way through the lens of "epidemic psychology". According to Philip Strong, the founder of the sociological study of epidemic infectious diseases, not only is an epidemic biological; there is also the potential for three psycho-social epidemics: of fear, moralization, and action. This work empirically tests Strong's model at scale by studying the use of language of 122M tweets related to the COVID-19 pandemic posted in the U.S. during the whole year of 2020. On Twitter, we identified three distinct phases. Each of them is characterized by different regimes of the three psycho-social epidemics. In the refusal phase, users refused to accept reality despite the increasing number of deaths in other countries. In the anger phase (started after the announcement of the first death in the country), users' fear translated into anger about the looming feeling that things were about to change. Finally, in the acceptance phase, which began after the authorities imposed physical-distancing measures, users settled into a "new normal" for their daily activities. Overall, refusal of accepting reality gradually died off as the year went on, while acceptance increasingly took hold. During 2020, as cases surged in waves, so did anger, re-emerging cyclically at each wave. Our real-time operationalization of Strong's model is designed in a way that makes it possible to embed epidemic psychology into real-time models (e.g., epidemiological and mobility models).

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