Table 4.

Results of independent sample t-tests between the posts of subpopulations affected by and not affected by comment tokens.

Measures	Diff.	t	p	Measures	Diff.	t	p
Affective attributes				Temporal References
NA	−7.18	−2.95	*	future tense	18.28	4.89	***
anger	−12.46	−3.55	**	Social/Personal Concerns
sadness	−9.40	−3.01	*	family	6.04	2.64	*
Cognition and Perception				friends	20.23	4.62	***
cog. mech	40.75	6.65	***	social	23.67	5.08	***
inhibition	−15.10	−4.45	***	health	12.55	3.58	**
hear	9.40	3.09	**	work	8.98	3.08	**
Lexical Density and Awareness				Interpersonal Focus
verbs	31.24	6.94	***	1st p. sin.	−20.69	−4.51	***
aux verbs	9.46	3.00	**	2nd p.	15.68	3.27	**
article	25.51	6.24	***	3rd p.	−20.69	5.77	***
adverbs	−10.00	−3.14	**	indef p.	18.76	4.67	***

Significance is reported following Bonferroni correction:

^***: p < 10⁻⁵;

^**: p < 10⁻⁴;

^*: p < 10⁻³.