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Pollyanna hypothesis: a standalone construct

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the tendency across languages for positive evaluative words to be used more often and more widely than negative ones.

In linguistics, Pollyanna hypothesis refers to the tendency across languages for positive evaluative words to be used more often and more widely than negative ones. This meaning comes from Boucher (1969) in Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior.[1]

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References

Boucher, J., & Osgood, C. E. (1969). The pollyanna hypothesis. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 8(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5371(69)80002-2

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