id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-195929-cgabxs19	Aggarwal, Jai	Exploration of Gender Differences in COVID-19 Discourse on Reddit	2020-08-13		.txt	text/plain	3295	157	50	Using a novel dataset of male and female linguistic productions collected from the Reddit discussion platform, we further confirm existing assumptions about gender-linked affective distinctions, and demonstrate that these distinctions are amplified in social media postings involving emotionally-charged discourse related to COVID-19. We use our COVID and baseline datasets for analysis of emotional differences as well as topical preferences in spontaneous productions by male and female authors on Reddit. First, Table 1 shows considerable differences between M and F authors in the baseline dataset for all three emotional dimensions (albeit a tiny effect size in valence), in line with established assumptions in this field (Burriss et al., 2007; Hoffman, 2008; Thelwall et al., 2010) : women score higher in use of positive language, while men score higher on arousal and dominance. Using a large dataset of COVID-related utterances by men and women on the Reddit discussion platforms, we show clear distinctions along emotional dimensions between the two genders, and demonstrate that these differences are amplified in emotionallyintensive discourse on the pandemic.	./cache/cord-195929-cgabxs19.txt	./txt/cord-195929-cgabxs19.txt