scholarly journals Tuning in to psychological change: Linguistic markers of psychological traits and emotions over time in popular U.S. song lyrics.

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Nathan DeWall ◽  
Richard S. Pond ◽  
W. Keith Campbell ◽  
Jean M. Twenge
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Psychological Change ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Over Time

Social Change and Psychological Change in Rural Mali

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (7) ◽  
pp. 965-981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmi Schooler ◽  
Leslie J Caplan ◽  
Pakuy Pierre Mounkoro ◽  
Chiaka Diakité
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Psychological Change ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Personality Stability ◽  
Psychological Reaction ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Over Time

We examine the effects of socio-environmental change on personality in Mali in three ways, using data from a longitudinal two-wave (1994, 2004) survey conducted in rural Mali. Firstly, we compare the between-wave personality stability of Anxiety, Self-confidence, Mastery/Fatalism, and Authoritarianism with that in USA, Japan, Poland, and Ukraine. Secondly, we examine socio-economic hardship and political instability in pre-industrial Mali. Thirdly, we examine patterns of psychological reaction to political and social change during the study period. Our findings have implications for comparisons and generalizations across times and cultures about the contribution of socio-environmental conditions to over-time change in personality.

scholarly journals Genetic amplification and the individualization of the parent–child relationship across adolescence

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ludeke ◽  
W. Johnson ◽  
M. McGue ◽  
W. G. Iacono
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Genetic Influence ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Parent Child

BackgroundMany psychological traits become increasingly influenced by genetic factors throughout development, including several that might intuitively be seen as purely environmental characteristics. One such trait is the parent–child relationship, which is associated with a variety of socially significant outcomes, including mental health and criminal behavior. Genetic factors have been shown to partially underlie some of these associations, but the changing role of genetic influence over time remains poorly understood.MethodOver 1000 participants in a longitudinal twin study were assessed at three points across adolescence with a self-report measure regarding the levels of warmth and conflict in their relationships with their parents. These reports were analyzed with a biometric growth curve model to identify changes in genetic and environmental influences over time.ResultsGenetic influence on the child-reported relationship with parent increased throughout adolescence, while the relationship's quality deteriorated. The increase in genetic influence resulted primarily from a positive association between genetic factors responsible for the initial relationship and those involved in change in the relationship over time. By contrast, environmental factors relating to change were negatively related to those involved in the initial relationship.ConclusionsThe increasing genetic influence seems to be due to early genetic influences having greater freedom of expression over time whereas environmental circumstances were decreasingly important to variance in the parent–child relationship. We infer that the parent–child relationship may become increasingly influenced by the particular characteristics of the child (many of which are genetically influenced), gradually displacing the effects of parental or societal ideas of child rearing.

The Co-evolution of Culture, Psychology, and Institutions

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-156
Author(s):  
Robert Huggins ◽  
Piers Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Independent Factor ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Selective Migration ◽  
Psychological Profiles ◽  
Over Time

This chapter empirically investigates the relationships that hold between culture, personality psychology, and institutions. The analysis recognizes that any relationships between these constructs are likely to be bidirectional, and therefore it is inappropriate to assume that one can be regarded as an independent factor that drives the others. The analysis examines those specific relationships between each of the three constructs to capture evidence for the existence of their intertwined nature. In particular, it focuses on how selective migration due to particular psychological traits can be associated not only with the psychological profiles of ‘exporting’ and ‘receiving’ areas but also how these patterns relate to the culture of the receiving areas and how they develop over time.

Delayed Gratification in Political Participation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1532673X2097235
Author(s):  
Jerome Schafer
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Time Preferences ◽  
Monetary Incentives ◽  
Delayed Gratification ◽  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Political Decisions ◽  
Over Time

Delayed gratification is associated with myriad desirable outcomes—like eating right and saving money. In this article, I explore whether it also increases political participation. To this end, I provide an explicit decision-theoretic framework, which predicts that less patient individuals are less willing to vote and to donate; these forms of participation are costly before Election Day, but their rewards are partially delayed. I then discuss how to elicit individual time preferences with real monetary incentives. In the empirical analysis, I provide evidence from a representative U.S. survey showing that monetary discount rates predict turnout and donations. Though mostly correlational and exploratory, these findings hold when controlling for a host of potential confounds. Overall, my results indicate that impatient types are less likely to prepare for and ultimately participate in elections. This sheds light on when and how deep psychological traits constrain political decisions involving a trade-off over time.

scholarly journals Informalization in UK party election broadcasts 1966-97

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Party Leader ◽  
General Increase ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
Margaret Thatcher ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Made In

This article uses a novel, quantitatively based method to assess the extent to which UK party election broadcasts in the 31 years between 1966 and 1997 became more ‘informal’. Using the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English, I identify 28 linguistic ‘markers’ which are salient in the assessment of formality, and count their frequencies in the 37,000-word corpus. My quantitative findings reveal a general increase in informalization over time, which corresponds with judgements made in critical discourse analysis (CDA). But I also discover an anomaly in the broadcasts from 1987, which I explain with reference to the influence of the Conservative party leader, Margaret Thatcher.

Linguistic Markers of Psychological Change Surrounding September 11, 2001

2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 687-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Cohn ◽  
M. R. Mehl ◽  
J. W. Pennebaker
Keyword(s):  
September 11 ◽  
Psychological Change ◽  
Linguistic Markers

Social transmission bias and the cultural evolution of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hirshleifer ◽  
Siew Hong Teoh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Social Transmission ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Economic Attitudes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Beliefs ◽  
Over Time

AbstractEvolved dispositions influence, but do not determine, how people think about economic problems. The evolutionary cognitive approach offers important insights but underweights the social transmission of ideas as a level of explanation. The need for asocialexplanation for the evolution of economic attitudes is evidenced, for example, by immense variations in folk-economic beliefs over time and across individuals.

Articulatory Generalization in Two Word-Medial, Ambisyllabic Contexts

1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia I. Wolfe ◽  
Suzanne D. Blocker ◽  
Norma J. Prater
Keyword(s):  
Common View ◽  
Perceptual Salience ◽  
The Common ◽  
Unitary Concept ◽  
Over Time

Articulatory generalization of velar cognates /k/, /g/ in two phonologically disordered children was studied over time as a function of sequential word-morpheme position training. Although patterns of contextual acquisition differed, correct responses to the word-medial, inflected context (e.g., "picking," "hugging") occurred earlier and exceeded those to the word-medial, noninflected context (e.g., "bacon," "wagon"). This finding indicates that the common view of the word-medial position as a unitary concept is an oversimplification. Possible explanations for superior generalization to the word-medial, inflected position are discussed in terms of coarticulation, perceptual salience, and the representational integrity of the word.

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