@article{Garcia2012Posit-60079,
  year={2012},
  doi={10.1140/epjds3},
  title={Positive words carry less information than negative words},
  volume={1},
  journal={EPJ Data Science},
  author={Garcia, David and Garas, Antonios and Schweitzer, Frank},
  note={Article Number: 3}
}

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