Regular article Open access Published: 04 November 2016 The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes Andrew J Reagan1, Lewis Mitchell2, Dilan Kiley1, Christopher M Danforth1 & …Peter Sheridan Dodds1 Show authors EPJ Data Science volume 5, Article number: 31 (2016) Cite this article Advances in computing power, natural language processing, and digitization of text now make it pos