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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...
Knowing me, knowing you: the accuracy and unique predictive validity of self-ratings and other-ratings of daily behaviorSimine Vazire
Washington University in St Louis, Department of Psychology, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:1202-16. 2008..These findings suggest that there is no single perspective from which a person is known best and that both the self and others possess unique insight into how a person typically behaves...
Naturalistic observation of health-relevant social processes: the electronically activated recorder methodology in psychosomaticsMatthias R Mehl
Department of Psychology, 1503 E University Blvd, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, USA
Psychosom Med 74:410-7. 2012..g., loneliness) and outer, observable aspects (e.g., social isolation) of real-world social processes to reveal their unique effects on health...- 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... - The lay assessment of subclinical depression in daily lifeMatthias R Mehl
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Psychol Assess 18:340-5. 2006..g., spending time alone, not socializing, not laughing) discriminated successfully only at high levels of subclinical depression... - We-talk, communal coping, and cessation success in a couple-focused intervention for health-compromised smokersMichael J Rohrbaugh
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Fam Process 51:107-21. 2012..These findings add to evidence regarding the prognostic significance of partner we-talk for patient health and provide preliminary documentation of communal coping as a possible mechanism of change in couple-focused intervention... - Naturalistically observed swearing, emotional support, and depressive symptoms in women coping with illnessMegan L Robbins
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Health Psychol 30:789-92. 2011..The goal of this study was to explore the intra- and interpersonal consequences of swearing. Specifically, it investigated what implications swearing has for coping with and adjustment to illness... - 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... - Reading between the lines: the lay assessment of subclinical depression from written self-descriptionsAubrey J Rodriguez
University of Southern California, Department of Psychology, 3620 McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089 1061, USA
J Pers 78:575-98. 2010..g., swear words, references to sleep). For most of these cues, judges were implicitly aware of their context-specific diagnosticity... - Prognostic significance of spouse we talk in couples coping with heart failureMichael J Rohrbaugh
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 76:781-9. 2008..The results highlight the utility of automatic text analysis in couple-interaction research and provide further evidence that looking beyond the patient can improve prediction of health outcomes... - When leaving your ex, love yourself: observational ratings of self-compassion predict the course of emotional recovery following marital separationDavid A Sbarra
University of Arizona, USA
Psychol Sci 23:261-9. 2012..These effects held when we accounted for a number of competing predictors. Self-compassion is a modifiable variable, and if our findings can be replicated, they may have implications for improving the lives of divorcing adults... - Naturalistically observed sighing and depression in rheumatoid arthritis patients: a preliminary studyMegan L Robbins
Department of Psychology, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ 85721 0068, USA
Health Psychol 30:129-33. 2011..This study tested the degree to which naturalistically observed sighing in daily life is a behavioral indicator of depression and reported physical symptoms (i.e., experienced pain and flare days) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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...