Correlations between the 11-year moving average on the U.S. misery index and different literary samples, 1929 to 2000.

Highest magnitude correlations at top. Standard deviations and confidence intervals on are estimated by 10,000 bootstraps (random sampling with replacement). Not shown are the literary scores which did not yield statistically significant correlations with economic misery: WNA misery (Fiction books), WNA joy, WNA fear, WNA surprise, WNA anger, WNA sadness, LIWC anxiety, LIWC anger, LIWC affect, and LIWC positive emotions.