World Well-Being Project

Empathy can lead to negative-debilitating arousal (stress) or positive-invigorating arousal depending on your mindset! Groundbreaking research from our very own Anneke Buffone published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. https://news.upenn.edu//two-types-empathy-elicit-different

Are you a healthcare provider? We're interested in your experience. https://ah.wwbp.org/NIH/ We are currently administering a survey with healthcare providers. The survey will take approximately 5-10 minutes and upon completion we will provide a word cloud of your distinguishing language on Facebook. If you aren't a healthcare provider please share with your friends that are!

What can you guess about a person, based on their tweets? Learn more from our very own Daniel Preoiuc-Pietro. http://www.techrepublic.com//big-data-can-reveal-inaccura/

Attention social and computer science researchers: We are launching a new website which shares the code base used for most of our research papers. DLATK, the Differential Language Analysis ToolKit, is an end to end text analysis package specifically suited for social media and social scientific research. Check out this contribution to the greater research community and let us know what you think! http://dlatk.wwbp.org/

Read our latest blog post on crowdsourcing. What type of workers are more likely to disclose information about themselves? Fascinating insights from Daniel Preotiuc. http://wwbp.org//what-traits-enable-crowd-workers-to-volu/

Read more about the complexity of empathy. Are there ways of feeling for others that are healthy and others that work against you? Our very own Anneke Buffone is referenced in this wonderful read from the World Bank! Check it out and join the discussion. http://blogs.worldbank.org/p/things-we-do-dark-side-empathy

Watch this new video on the World Well-Being Project! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJmgRZDf_oc

Do 'cat' and 'dog people' differ in personality? Our new blogpost explores this by examining social media.

The Washington Post featured our new Age and Gender Predictor demo with our recent findings on interesting language differences between men and women on Facebook.

Special thanks to The New York Times for featuring our latest work.

Men and women differ significantly in their Facebook statuses. Read what we discovered in our new PLOS ONE paper.

The New Scientist presents our study on linking personality to the Twitter profile photo you choose #icwsm