Linguistic effects on news headline success: Evidence from thousands of online field experiments (Registered Report).

What makes written text appealing? In this registered report, we study the linguistic characteristics of news headline success using a large-scale dataset of field experiments (A/B tests) conducted on the popular website Upworthy.com comparing multiple headline variants for the same news articles. T...

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Main Authors: Kristina Gligorić, George Lifchits, Robert West, Ashton Anderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281682