“The Volcano of Civilization Erupts at Night”: A Study of the Relationship Between Staying Up Late

Abstract

The establishment of interactive communication patterns in new media give people a broad space for expression, yet the frequent outbreak of irrational speeches in the virtual society which happened at night also needs to be urgently given great attention by the research community. Based on the theoretical foundation of ELM peripheral route, intergroup emotion-transmission and Croce's "intuitive knowledge", this paper uses a combination of questionnaires and semi-structured interviews to collect and analyze data. The phenomenon of staying up late generally puts individuals in an irrational state of mind, but it does not necessarily induce irrational behaviors in the process of online social behavior. The study explores the issue of the relationship between staying up late and irrational expressiig on the Internet, and proposes new related hypotheses that could deepen future research on emotional communication with regard to the irrational *Xinyi Deng Jinan University, Jinan 250024, Chin