Explore the datasets used in my research and teaching, spanning areas like natural disasters, technological catasrophes, and epidemics.
featured datasets
Ecological Threats and Collectivism
Includes the number of natural disasters and epidemics, deaths caused by disasters and epidemics, historical pathogen prevalence index, GDP per capita, world regions, and collectivism scores for 188 countries.
- Use Cases: Random-effect modeling, Pearson vs Spearman correlation
- Link: Dataset
- Publication: Shapouri, S., Rafiee, Y. (in press). Cultural Systems and Ecological Threats: Epidemics and Natural Disasters Do Not Predict Collectivism. Human Nature. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4113386
Affective Ratings of Natural and Technological Disasters
Includes valence and arousal ratings of pictures depicting natural and technological disasters from 7 standardized stimuli datasets
- Use Cases: Violations of assumptions of parametric and non-parametric tests, comparing two groups using regression
- Link: Dataset
- Publication: Shapouri, S., Martin, L. L., & Arhami, O. (2023). Affective Responses to Natural and Technological Disasters; An Evolutionary Perspective. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-023-00224-z
other datasets
Disaster-related news headlines
Includes more than 7000 news headlines related to natural and technological disasters along with AI-generated number of people killed and valence ratings.
- API used: thenewsapi.com; OpenAI API
- Link: Dataset
- Blog post: Dimensional Emotion Mining of Disaster-related News Headlines
Hurricane papers on PubMed
Metadata of 6494 papers related to hurricanes including titles, authors and their affiliations, journals, DOIs plus AI-generated topics and one-line summaries.
- API used: NIH NCBI's API; OpenAI API
- Link: Dataset