Fig 1.
Variables are scaled between 0 and 1 such that a text with a 0 score represents the lowest proportion of that variable.
Fig 2.
Change scores for dependent variables.
Horizontal line at zero indicates no change. Plots represent Mean +/- 2*S.E.
Table 1.
Results of one-sample t-tests on CORE-OM change scores for Study 1.
Fig 3.
Variable correlation table (*p < .01; ** p < .001; ***p < .0001).
Fig 4.
Effects of arousal, dominance, valence, and concreteness on global distress change score in Study 1.
Table 2.
Results of exploratory multilevel model selection procedure in Study 1.
Table 3.
Texts with VAD + C values and category designation in Study 2.
Table 4.
Results of independent samples t-tests on CORE-OM change scores for test and control conditions in Study 2.
Fig 5.
Predicted marginal means for the effect of book-themed and non-book-themed discussion on valence, arousal, dominance, and absolute words.
Table 5.
Results of mixed linear models for absolute words, valence, arousal, and dominance regressed on genre (book related subreddit vs non-book-related subreddit) for Study 4.
Fig 6.
Two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests for differences in distribution shape significant at the p < .001 level (test statistics: 0.2, 0.17, 0.14).
Fig 7.
Predicted marginal means for the probability of absolute words, valence, dominance, and arousal.
Table 6.
Results of mixed linear models for absolute words, valence, arousal, and dominance regressed on category (best-seller vs literary award) for Study 5.