Sentiment Analysis of Web Scrapted Near-Death Experience Narratives
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2020 DOI: 10.17514/jnds-2020-38-3-p157-179 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Observational study using web-scraping and sentiment analysis Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | Personal narratives of near-death experiences scraped from the web |
| Topics | Near-death experience |
| Key findings | The analysis indicates that near-death experience narratives predominantly express positive sentiment, with negative sentiment occurring less frequently. This suggests that experiencers tend to describe their experiences in a positive light. |
Abstract
Article documenting the findings of research that employed web-scraping of personal narratives to analyze the level of positive or negative sentiment expressed by experiencers regarding their near-death experiences.
Comparable studies
Other observational and cohort studies on near-death experience, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands Cardiac patients successfully resuscitated after cardiac arrest in ten Dutch hospitals | 2001 | Prospective cohort study | n = 344 |
| Incidence and correlates of near-death experiences in a cardiac care unit Cardiac inpatients at a tertiary care center | 2003 | Observational cohort | n = 1,595 |
| Features of "near-death experience" in relation to whether or not patients were near death Patients who believed they were near death during an illness or after an injury and... | 1990 | Observational cohort | n = 58 |
| The phenomenology of near-death experiences Subjects who reported near-death experiences | 1980 | Retrospective study | n = 78 |
| Near-Death Experiences and the Temporal Lobe Individuals who reported having had a near-death experience during a life-threatening... | 2004 | Observational cohort |