liwca.fetch_threat

liwca.fetch_threat()

Fetch the threat dictionary.

Returns:

Dictionary with a single "threat" category.

Return type:

pandas.DataFrame

Notes

The threat dictionary is described in Choi et al.[1] and available, along with other resources, on Michele Gelfand’s website[2].

References

[1]

Choi et al., 2022. When danger strikes: A linguistic tool for tracking America’s collective response to threats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi:10.1073/pnas.2113891119

[2]

https://www.michelegelfand.com/threat-dictionary

Examples

>>> import liwca
>>> dx = liwca.fetch_threat()
>>> "accidents" in dx.index
True