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Testosterone as a social inhibitor: two case studies of the effect of testosterone treatment on languageJames W Pennebaker
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 113:172-5. 2004..It appears that testosterone steers attention away from social connections but not necessarily toward concerns with aggression or sexual activity...- The secret life of pronouns: flexibility in writing style and physical healthR Sherlock Campbell
Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA
Psychol Sci 14:60-5. 2003..The findings point to the importance of the role of discussing the self and social relationships in writing and, at the same time, to the remarkable potential of techniques such as LSA... - Psychological aspects of natural language. use: our words, our selvesJames W Pennebaker
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 54:547-77. 2003..Particles, which serve as the glue that holds nouns and regular verbs together, can serve as markers of emotional state, social identity, and cognitive styles... - Style and substance in psychology: are influential articles more readable than less influential ones?James Hartley
Department of Psychology, The University of the Texas, Austin, USA
Soc Stud Sci 32:321-34. 2002..This idea is upheld when the papers involved are ones that have been highly rated by fellow colleagues (Studies 1 and 2) but it is not supported when the papers involved are highly-cited journal articles (Studies 3 and 4)... - Words of wisdom: language use over the life spanJames W Pennebaker
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin 78712, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 85:291-301. 2003..Implications for using language as a marker of personality among current and historical texts are discussed... - The effects of traumatic disclosure on physical and mental health: the values of writing and talking about upsetting eventsJ W Pennebaker
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Int J Emerg Ment Health 1:9-18. 1999..The final part of the paper discusses these findings within the context of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) debriefing strategies... - Forming a story: the health benefits of narrativeJ W Pennebaker
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA
J Clin Psychol 55:1243-54. 1999..Ongoing studies suggest that writing serves the function of organizing complex emotional experiences. Implications for these findings for psychotherapy are briefly discussed... - Linguistic styles: language use as an individual differenceJ W Pennebaker
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin 78712, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 77:1296-312. 1999..Despite modest effect sizes, the data suggest that linguistic style is an independent and meaningful way of exploring personality... - Prevalence, type, disclosure, and severity of adverse life events in college studentsJoshua M Smyth
Department of Psychology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
J Am Coll Health 57:69-76. 2008..Some information on the prevalence of adverse life experiences is available for the general population and college students, but the extent, nature, and severity of these events is unclear... - Variations in the spacing of expressive writing sessionsCindy K Chung
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Br J Health Psychol 13:15-21. 2008..In a test to determine whether a brief version of the expressive writing (EW) method was viable, 106 college students participated in an experiment dealing with the study of life transitions... - Language style matching in writing: synchrony in essays, correspondence, and poetryMolly E Ireland
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 99:549-71. 2010..Implications for using LSM as an implicit marker of social engagement and influence are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)... - The social dynamics of a cultural upheaval: social interactions surrounding September 11, 2001Matthias R Mehl
Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA
Psychol Sci 14:579-85. 2003..The findings have relevance for the understanding of stress and affiliation and normal psychological reactions to emergencies... - How do I love thee? Let me count the words: the social effects of expressive writingRichard B Slatcher
Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, TX 98712, USA
Psychol Sci 17:660-4. 2006..Increases in positive emotion words partially mediated the relation between expressive writing and relationship stability... - The sounds of social life: a psychometric analysis of students' daily social environments and natural conversationsMatthias R Mehl
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 84:857-70. 2003..The study sheds light on a methodological blind spot--the sampling of naturalistic social information from an unobtrusive observer's perspective... - Stereotypes of emotional expressiveness of northerners and southerners: a cross-cultural test of Montesquieu's hypothesesJ W Pennebaker
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 70:372-80. 1996..Regression and other analyses revealed that self-ratings of expressiveness were, in fact, related to being from the South and to warmer mean temperatures. Several possible explanations for these effects are discussed... - Lying words: predicting deception from linguistic stylesMatthew L Newman
Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, TX 78712, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:665-75. 2003..Compared to truth-tellers, liars showed lower cognitive complexity, used fewer self-references and other-references, and used more negative emotion words... - Linguistic predictors of adaptive bereavementJ W Pennebaker
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 72:863-71. 1997..Cognitive change and empirical models predicted postbereavement distress at 1 year. Implications of using computer-based text analyses in the study of narratives are discussed... - Personality in its natural habitat: manifestations and implicit folk theories of personality in daily lifeMatthias R Mehl
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 90:862-77. 2006..The findings point to the importance of naturalistic observation studies on how personality is expressed and perceived in the natural stream of everyday behavior... - Exploring the boundary conditions of expressive writing: In search of the right recipeJoshua M Smyth
Department of Psychology, Syracuse University, New York 13244-2340, USA
Br J Health Psychol 13:1-7. 2008 - Are women really more talkative than men?Matthias R Mehl
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Science 317:82. 2007..Participants' daily word use was extrapolated from the number of recorded words. Women and men both spoke about 16,000 words per day... - Benefits of expressive writing in lowering rumination and depressive symptomsEva Maria Gortner
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Behav Ther 37:292-303. 2006..A "booster" writing session predicted to enhance treatment benefits failed to have a significant effect... - Linguistic markers of psychological change surrounding September 11, 2001Michael A Cohn
University of Michigan, USA
Psychol Sci 15:687-93. 2004..This study bypasses many of the methodological obstacles of trauma research and provides a fine-grained analysis of the time line of human coping with upheaval... - Connecting with others in the midst of stressful upheaval on September 11, 2001Patricia Liehr
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Nursing, 1100 Holcombe Boulevard 5 518H, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Appl Nurs Res 17:2-9. 2004..Higher negative and lower positive feelings/emotions occurred during morning hours on September 11. Students connected with others and shared good thoughts. Measurement with real-time data sources was informative... - Somatisation in primary care. Solitary disclosure allows people to determine their own doseJames W Pennebaker
BMJ 324:544. 2002 - Expressive writing as a smoking cessation treatment adjunct for young adult smokersSteven C Ames
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 9:185-94. 2007..Therefore, other modes of delivering expressive writing to young adult cigarette smokers should be explored... - Expressing health experience through embodied languagePatricia Liehr
School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 1100 Holcombe Blvd 5 518H, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Nurs Scholarsh 34:27-32. 2002..Embodied language is the overlap of feeling and temporal word use with blood pressure during descriptions of health experience... - Pro-anorexics and recovering anorexics differ in their linguistic Internet self-presentationElizabeth J Lyons
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina, NC, United States
J Psychosom Res 60:253-6. 2006..This study explored the linguistic markers of differences in Internet self-presentation of self-identified pro-anorexics who defend anorexia as a lifestyle and self-identified anorexics in recovery... - Expressive writing intervention for young adult cigarette smokersSteven C Ames
Mayo Clinic, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Jacksonville, Florida 32224, USA
J Clin Psychol 61:1555-70. 2005..Participants stated they benefited most from the support and structure associated with the brief office intervention. Enthusiasm was lacking for the expressive writing treatment adjunct... - Effect of written emotional expression on immune function in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection: a randomized trialKeith J Petrie
Department of Health Psychology, Faculty of Medical and Health Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Psychosom Med 66:272-5. 2004..To determine whether writing about emotional topics compared with writing about neutral topics could affect CD4+ lymphocyte count and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) viral load among HIV-infected patients... - Expressive disclosure and health outcomes in a prostate cancer populationHarriet J Rosenberg
Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 32:37-53. 2002....
Research Grants
- INTERPERSONAL DISCLOSURE PROCESSES AND HEALTHJames Pennebaker; Fiscal Year: 2004..Measures of physician use, autonomic functioning, and illness reports will serve as outcome measures and correlates in each of the studies. ..