Cognitive networks detect structural patterns and emotional complexity in suicide notes

Communicating one's mindset means transmitting complex relationships between concepts and emotions. Using network science and word co-occurrences, we reconstruct conceptual associations as communicated in 139 genuine suicide notes, i.e., notes left by individuals who took their lives. We find t...

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Main Authors: Massimo Stella, Trevor J. Swanson, Ying Li, Thomas T. Hills, Andreia S. Teixeira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.917630/full