Red Roses and Gift Chocolates Are Judged More Positively in the U.S. Near Valentine’s Day: Evidence of Naturally Occurring Cultural Priming

Zayas, Vivian; Pandey, Gayathri; Tabak, Joshua

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00355

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“…Additionally, the topic of the importance of lovers' gifts approaching Valentine's day has already been investigated in the context of naturally occurring cultural priming. The evaluation of red roses and gift chocolates showed a positive shift in the days before Valentine's Day, suggesting that changes in evaluations might be related to the "cultural salience" of the event [32]-people gift chocolate because they think they are expected to.…”

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The Social Aspects of Sexual Health: A Twitter-Based Analysis of Valentine’s Day Perception

Sansone

Cignarelli

Mollaioli

et al. 2021

Sexes

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Sentiment analysis (SA) is a technique aimed at extracting opinions and sentiments through the analysis of text, often used in healthcare research to understand patients’ needs and interests. Data from social networks, such as Twitter, can provide useful insights on sexual behavior. We aimed to assess the perception of Valentine’s Day by performing SA on tweets we collected between 28 January and 13 February 2019. Analysis was done using ad hoc software. A total of 883,615 unique tweets containing the word “valentine” in their text were collected. Geo-localization was available for 48,918 tweets; most the tweets came from the US (36,889, 75.41%), the UK (2605, 5.33%) and Canada (1661, 3.4%). The number of tweets increased approaching February 14. “Love” was the most recurring word, appearing in 111,981 tweets, followed by “gift” (55,136), “special” (34,518) and “happy” (33,913). Overall, 7318 tweets mentioned “sex”: among these tweets, the most recurring words were “sexy” (2317 tweets), “love” (1394) and “gift” (679); words pertaining to intimacy and sexual activity, such as “lingerie”, “porn”, and “date” were less common. In conclusion, tweets about Valentine’s Day mostly focus on the emotions, or on the material aspect of the celebration, and the sexual aspect of Valentine’s Day is rarely mentioned.

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The Social Aspects of Sexual Health: A Twitter-Based Analysis of Valentine’s Day Perception

Sansone

Cignarelli

Mollaioli

et al. 2021

Sexes

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“…Police data showed a reduction in suicide attempts during the February period when search terms such as "love", "safety", "pretty", "wonderful", and "fantastic" are prominent in Google searches. It is necessary to consider the impact of Valentine's Day, which occurs in February, on searches for similar keywords [25]. This may indicate a favorable period for individuals in relationships and families, as these interpersonal bonds are well-recognized protective factors against suicide [26].…”

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Seasonal Trends in Suicide Attempts-Keywords Related Searches: A Google Trends Analysis

Klimiuk,

Krefta,

Krawczyk

et al. 2024

Healthcare

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Suicide is a significant public health concern globally, with its varying rates influenced by numerous factors, including seasonal changes. Online search behaviors, particularly searches related to suicide and mental health, have been proposed as real-time indicators of suicidal ideation in populations. In this study, a cross-sectional time series analysis was conducted, utilizing data on suicide attempts from the Polish Police Headquarters and online search behavior from Google Trends over a decade. Suicide attempt data were analyzed alongside the frequency of Google searches for suicide-related keywords derived from the Polish Corpus of Suicide Notes. A total of 66 keywords were selected for analysis to identify seasonal trends and patterns in search behavior. The study employed linear regression, Seasonal Mann-Kendall tests, and TBATS models to analyze the data. Suicide rates show seasonal patterns, peaking in warmer months. However, keyword searches did not strongly correlate with peak suicide months. This study enhances our understanding of suicide-related search trends and their potential connection to suicide rates. It suggests avenues for more effective prevention efforts and the potential for future algorithms to predict suicide rates and identify at-risk groups.

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“…According to ethnologists, sociologists, as well as psychologists or marketing experts, Valentine's Day is particularly a couples' feast day, the main practice of which is gifting. Such a Valentine's Day model is an object for examining not only the consumption and behaviour of consumers (Ogletree, 1993;Rugimbana et al, 2003;Clarke et al, 2005;Close, Zinkhan, 2006;Zayas et al, 2017), but also the relationship of Valentine's Day to other holidays of the country or social group (Biswas, 2013;Patel, 2014;Prasiska et al, 2023;Zavoretti, 2013), the influence of the media, virtual reality, or digital communication on the concept of Valentine's Day celebrations (Masten, Plowman, 2003;Ikems, Udom, 2023), up to following the importance of the holiday in the dynamics of partnerships (Morse, Neuberg, 2004), the birth rate (Levy et al, 2011), or emotions in online interactive contexts (Doods, Danforth, 2010).…”

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Valentine’s Day and the Eventisation of Slovakia’s Festive Culture

Zajonc

2023

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e study focuses on Valentine's Day in Slovakia since the turn of the 20 th and 21 st centuries from the perspective of festive culture. It explores public celebrations, as defined by Lars Deile (2014), associated with Valentine's Day, and analyses them on the basis of event characteristics according to Winfried Gebhardt's concept. e study is based on the assumption that the acceleration of eventisation is a new dynamising element of the festive culture transformation at the late modern stage (Gebhardt, 2000). e aim of the study is (1) to find out which of the Valentine's Day public celebrations in Slovakia have the nature of an event; (2) identify the origin of and motivation for the choice of specific forms of events; (3) outline the specifics of Valentine's Day celebrations as events in the framework of Slovakia's festive culture. At the general level, the author is interested in the cultural dimension of the individualisation and pluralisation processes. rough three Valentine's Day events, he traces the transformations of the trends of deinstitutionalisation, deconstruction, profanisation, multiplication, and commercialisation, which characterise the celebrations of modern society according to Gebhardt. Empirically, the study relies on the findings of the analysis of media sources about the forms of the festive practice accompanying Valentine's Day in Slovakia. e sources come from exploratory research conducted in 2011-2021.

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Red Roses and Gift Chocolates Are Judged More Positively in the U.S. Near Valentine’s Day: Evidence of Naturally Occurring Cultural Priming

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

The Social Aspects of Sexual Health: A Twitter-Based Analysis of Valentine’s Day Perception

The Social Aspects of Sexual Health: A Twitter-Based Analysis of Valentine’s Day Perception

Seasonal Trends in Suicide Attempts-Keywords Related Searches: A Google Trends Analysis

Valentine’s Day and the Eventisation of Slovakia’s Festive Culture

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