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Noguchi, Takao, Stewart, Neil, Olivola, Christopher Yves, Moat, Helen Susannah and Preis, Tobias (2014) Characterizing the time-perspective of nations with search engine query data. PLoS One, Volume 9 (Number 4). Article number e95209. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095209 ISSN 1932-6203.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095209
Abstract
Vast quantities of data on human behavior are being created by our everyday internet usage. Building upon a recent study by Preis, Moat, Stanley, and Bishop (2012), we used search engine query data to construct measures of the time-perspective of nations, and tested these measures against per-capita gross domestic product (GDP). The results indicate that nations with higher per-capita GDP are more focused on the future and less on the past, and that when these nations do focus on the past, it is more likely to be the distant past. These results demonstrate the viability of using nation-level data to build psychological constructs.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Finance Group Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Web search engines -- Psychological aspects, National characteristics, Time perspective | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS One | ||||||||
Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1932-6203 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 15 April 2014 | ||||||||
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Volume: | Volume 9 | ||||||||
Number: | Number 4 | ||||||||
Article Number: | Article number e95209 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0095209 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 December 2015 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 December 2015 | ||||||||
Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC), Leverhulme Trust (LT), National Business Center (U.S.), Research Councils UK (RCUK) | ||||||||
Grant number: | ES/K002201/1 (ESRC), ES/K004948/1 (ESRC), RP2012-V-022 (LT), D12PC00285 (NBC), EP/K039830/1 (RCUK) |
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