Characterizing the Time-Perspective of Nations with Search Engine Query Data

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...

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Autores principales: Noguchi, Takao, Stewart, Neil, Olivola, Christopher Y., Moat, Helen Susannah, Preis, Tobias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24736725
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095209
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author Noguchi, Takao
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Moat, Helen Susannah
Preis, Tobias
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-39881612014-04-21 Characterizing the Time-Perspective of Nations with Search Engine Query Data Noguchi, Takao Stewart, Neil Olivola, Christopher Y. Moat, Helen Susannah Preis, Tobias PLoS One Research Article 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. Public Library of Science 2014-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3988161/ /pubmed/24736725 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095209 Text en © 2014 Noguchi et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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