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. 2022 Jun 28:1–16. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s00146-022-01494-z

Table 1.

Proximities and distances between unfavourable attributes and the key terms “poor” and “rich” and the ABI in Google News Word2vec pre-trained embeddings

Negative attributes Proximity to “poor” (cosine) Proximity to “rich” (cosine) Relative value: 1 suggests attribute closer to “poor” Relative distance to “poor” (in radians) Relative distance to “rich” (in radians) Aporophobia bias indicator (ABI)
Substandard 0.518799 0.065894 1 1.025350 1.504854 0.479503
Dreadful 0.496364 0.108623 1 1.051390 1.461958 0.410568
Mediocre 0.525181 0.157387 1 1.017868 1.412751 0.394883
Inferior 0.442338 0.154269 1 1.112590 1.415908 0.303316
Indifference 0.295424 0.049471 1 1.270896 1.521304 0.250408
Displeasure 0.181486 − 0.043921 1 1.388298 1.614732 0.226433
Humiliating 0.236273 0.013788 1 1.332267 1.557007 0.224740
Abhorrent 0.177211 − 0.034837 1 1.392643 1.605641 0.212997
Disgust 0.175618 − 0.033866 1 1.394262 1.604669 0.210406
Disrespect 0.178972 − 0.002676 1 1.390853 1.573472 0.182618
Disregard 0.165259 − 0.011534 1 1.404775 1.582331 0.177555
Fear 0.174980 0.019890 1 1.394910 1.550904 0.155994
Irritation 0.152907 0.011789 1 1.417287 1.559006 0.141719
Hostile 0.185884 0.045462 1 1.383824 1.525318 0.141493
Rudeness 0.176455 0.038615 1 1.393411 1.532171 0.138759
Annoyance 0.110991 − 0.026991 1 1.459575 1.597791 0.138215
Disgusting 0.259967 0.133528 1 1.307807 1.436867 0.129059
Hostility 0.132259 0.040978 1 1.438148 1.529806 0.091657
Rejection 0.100165 0.037907 1 1.470462 1.532879 0.062416
Contempt 0.091754 0.034602 1 1.478912 1.536186 0.057273
Hate 0.166657 0.111664 1 1.403357 1.458898 0.055540
Insult 0.150543 0.107800 1 1.419678 1.462786 0.043107
Aversion 0.169729 0.132875 1 1.400240 1.437526 0.037285
hate act 0.143041 0.111930 1 1.427262 1.458631 0.031369
hate speech 0.154789 0.134926 1 1.415381 1.435456 0.020075
Antipathy 0.082810 0.075422 1 1.487891 1.495302 0.007411

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