Detecting Emotional Contagion in OSS Projects

Abstract

In recent times, due to an increase of open source software working models, the behaviour and emotional affective state of developers are becoming increasingly relevant as a subject of research in the software engineering community. One important aspect of such research is emotional contagion: the phenomenon by which the affective state of an individual is transferred to another one through communications. In this paper, propose a simple model that determines the presence of emotional contagion, negative or positive, in an open source project in order to enrich the set of tools used to help the developers..