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

Table 3.

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

Favourable attributes Proximity to “poor” (cosine) Proximity to “rich” (cosine) Relative value: 1 suggests attribute closer to the poor Relative distance to “poor” (in radians) Relative distance to “rich” (in radians) Aporophobia bias indicator (ABI)
Sympathy 0.169531 0.018321 1 1.400441 1.552474 0.152032
Politeness 0.132293 0.068439 1 1.438114 1.502303 0.064189
Pleasing 0.227241 0.174897 1 1.341551 1.394995 0.053443
Goodwill 0.088890 0.039868 1 1.481787 1.530918 0.049129
Cordiality 0.043623 0.007792 1 1.527159 1.563004 0.035845
Happy 0.212202 0.180576 1 1.356968 1.389223 0.032255
Fearless 0.100959 0.069186 1 1.469664 1.501554 0.031889
Pride 0.104457 0.088019 1 1.466148 1.482663 0.016514
Friendliness 0.178084 0.175157 1 1.391756 1.394731 0.002974
Courageous 1 1 0 0 0 0
Self-assurance 1 1 0 0 0 0
Carelessness 1 1 0 0 0 0
Defence 1 1 0 0 0 0
Affection 0.100301 0.10674 0 1.470325 1.463852 − 0.006474
Liked 0.125296 0.135883 0 1.445169 1.434491 − 0.010678
Delight 0.033640 0.045317 0 1.537149 1.525463 − 0.011687
Desire 0.085015 0.096916 0 1.485677 1.473728 − 0.011949
Pleasant 0.168783 0.187770 0 1.401201 1.381905 − 0.019297
acceptation 0.049464 0.099845 0 1.521311 1.470784 − 0.050527
appreciation 0.005268 0.075830 0 1.565527 1.494893 − 0.070635
independence 0.067198 0.141933 0 1.503546 1.428382 − 0.075165
Love 0.107482 0.184401 0 1.463105 1.385334 − 0.077772
Delightful 0.131124 0.215119 0 1.439293 1.353983 − 0.085311
Flattery 0.054658 0.140086 0 1.516110 1.430247 − 0.085864
Friendly 0.184168 0.271432 0 1.385570 1.295916 − 0.089655
Endorsement − 0.049720 0.057279 0 1.620537 1.513486 − 0.107052
Taste 0.147377 0.261997 0 1.422879 1.305705 − 0.117175
Pleasure − 0.005007 0.120311 0 1.575803 1.450193 − 0.125610
Attractive 0.146302 0.282672 0 1.423967 1.284217 − 0.139750

Source: author’s creation