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Record W3015486582 · doi:10.14738/assrj.72.7339

The Common Emotional Plot of the Four Gospels

2020· article· en· W3015486582 on OpenAlexaff
Cynthia Whissell

Bibliographic record

VenueAdvances in Social Sciences Research Journal · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHistorical and Linguistic Studies
Canadian institutionsLaurentian University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPlot (graphics)Christian ministryAffect (linguistics)PsychologyLiteratureSocial psychologyHistoryArtPhilosophyTheologyMathematicsCommunicationStatistics

Abstract

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One way of defining or describing a plot is through its emotional structure. This article examines the emotional structure of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in a modern English translation (WEB). Measures of emotion are based on quantitative sentiment analysis (Dictionary of Affect in Language).  A common plot is identified for all gospels, modeled with a regression analysis (p<.001), and described in terms of the relationship of emotion to content across time. The plot opens on an emotionally positive note. Emotions become increasingly unpleasant as Jesus meets with resistance from religious authorities while engaging in his ministry. Emotions then become more pleasant as Jesus completes his pre-Judean ministry, experiences the Transfiguration, and enters Jerusalem in triumph. After this, emotions become increasingly unpleasant again, leading to the low of the crucifixion. A turn to more pleasant emotions characterizes the resurrection. In a separate analysis it was noted that segments of the gospels presented as spoken by Jesus were more pleasant than remaining materials (p<.001): however, they did not vary emotionally in accordance with the plot (p>.20), but remained relatively stable across time.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.922
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0100.006
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.250
GPT teacher head0.508
Teacher spread0.258 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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