title: Mapping collective emotions to make sense of collective behavior.
abstract: While Bentley et al.'s model is very appealing, in this commentary we argue that researchers interested in big data and collective behavior, including the way humans make decisions, must account for the emotional factor. We investigate how daily choice of activities is influenced by emotions. Results indicate that mood significantly predicts people's decisions about what to do next, stressing the importance of emotional state on decision-making.
authors.affiliation: ICTEAM Institute, Catholic University of Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. maxime.taquet@uclouvain.be http://maximetaquet.com/
authors.forename: Maxime
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taquet
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics and Business, University Pompeu Fabra, 08005 Barcelona, Spain. jordi.quoidbach@upf.edu http://www.quoidbach.org/
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Quoidbach
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 yva@mit.edu http://www.demontjoye.com/
authors.forename: Yves-Alexandre
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: de Montjoye
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Namur Medical School, B-5000 Namur, Belgium. martin.desseilles@unamur.be http://mentalhealthsciences.com/
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Desseilles
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D012919:Social Behavior; D060756:Social Networking