Understanding user responses to the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter from a terror management theory perspective: Cultural differences among the US, UK and India

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Highlights：

• People's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are examined from a terror management theory perspective.

• Twitter data are analyzed using topic modeling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm.

• A total of seven themes are identified reflecting proximal and distal defenses.

• Cultural differences in defenses are found across the US, UK, and India.

摘要

•People's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are examined from a terror management theory perspective.•Twitter data are analyzed using topic modeling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm.•A total of seven themes are identified reflecting proximal and distal defenses.•Cultural differences in defenses are found across the US, UK, and India.

论文关键词：COVID-19 pandemic,Terror management theory,Twitter,Topic modeling,Cultural differences

论文评审过程：Received 27 May 2021, Revised 23 October 2021, Accepted 30 October 2021, Available online 1 November 2021, Version of Record 23 December 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.107087