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Emotional Contagion in Code: How GitHub Emoji Reactions Shape Developer Collaboration

Nov 04, 2025

This study investigates whether emoji reactions on GitHub drive emotional contagion and influence developer collaboration outcomes. Method: Analyzing 106,743 emoji reactions across 2,098 issues/pull requests, we employed sentiment polarity classification, social network cascade analysis, effect-size estimation (Cohen’s *d*), and correlation analysis. Contribution/Results: We identify significant positive emotional contagion in technical discussions (*r* = 0.679, *d* = 2.393), with a positive-to-negative emotional cascade ratio of 23:1; 57.4% of discussions exhibit dominant positive sentiment. We propose and empirically validate five distinct emoji-driven emotional propagation patterns, demonstrating that initial affective feedback strongly steers discussion trajectories. Findings establish emoji not merely as expressive tokens but as critical affective signaling mechanisms shaping collaborative dynamics. This work provides empirical grounding and methodological insights for human-AI collaboration and affective computing in open-source communities.

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ESG-coherent risk measures for sustainable investing

Sep 11, 2023

This paper addresses the challenge of jointly quantifying financial risk and ESG performance in sustainable investing. We propose the first axiomatic bivariate risk measure and an ESG-aware reward–risk ratio framework. Methodologically, we construct a joint modeling system based on functions of bivariate random variables, treating ESG scores and asset returns as jointly distributed. Risk and the reward–risk ratio are formally defined via an ESG-consistency axiom, and an empirical ranking algorithm is developed. Our key contributions are: (1) a theoretical unification of financial risk and ESG performance, extending beyond conventional univariate risk theory; (2) the first rigorous axiomatic foundation for ESG consistency; and (3) empirical evidence demonstrating that the proposed measure significantly improves ESG-enhanced stock risk ranking, exhibiting strong discriminative power and practical efficacy in sustainable portfolio construction.

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