Positive emotion word use and longevity in famous deceased psychologists.

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah D. Pressman ◽  
Sheldon Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Word Use ◽  
Emotion Word

Emotion Word Use by Adolescents Who Stutter: An Exploratory Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-14
Author(s):  
Corrin G. Richels ◽  
Rogge Jessica
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Conversational Speech ◽  
Word Count ◽  
Word Use ◽  
Emotion Words ◽  
Emotion Word ◽  
Linguistic Inquiry ◽  
Positive Valence ◽  
Analyze Data

Purpose: Deficits in the ability to use emotion vocabulary may result in difficulties for adolescents who stutter (AWS) and may contribute to disfluencies and stuttering. In this project, we aimed to describe the emotion words used during conversational speech by AWS. Methods: Participants were 26 AWS between the ages of 12 years, 5 months and 15 years, 11 months-old (n=4 females, n=22 males). We drew personal narrative samples from the UCLASS database. We used Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software to analyze data samples for numbers of emotion words. Results: Results indicated that the AWS produced significantly higher numbers of emotion words with a positive valence. AWS tended to use the same few positive emotion words to the near exclusion of words with negative emotion valence. Conclusion: A lack of diversity in emotion vocabulary may make it difficult for AWS to engage in meaningful discourse about negative aspects of being a person who stutters

Does it matter whether we or I talk about us? Distinguishing we-talk in couples’ conflict discussions and partners’ private thoughts before and after conflict

2021 ◽  
pp. 026540752110511
Author(s):  
Stephanie J Wilson ◽  
Lisa M Jaremka ◽  
Christopher P Fagundes ◽  
Rebecca Andridge ◽  
Janice K Kiecolt-Glaser
Keyword(s):  
Married Couples ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Person Plural ◽  
Word Use ◽  
Emotion Word ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Marital Problem ◽  
First Person Plural ◽  
The Stability

According to extensive evidence, we-talk—couples’ use of first-person, plural pronouns—predicts better relationship quality and well-being. However, prior work has not distinguished we-talk by its context, which varies widely across studies. Also, little is known about we-talk’s consistency over time. To assess the stability and correlates of we-talk in private versus conversational contexts, 43 married couples’ language was captured during a marital problem discussion and in each partner’s privately recorded thoughts before and after conflict. Participants were asked to describe any current thoughts and feelings in the baseline thought-listing and to focus on their reaction to the conflict itself in the post-conflict sample. Couples repeated this protocol at a second study visit, approximately 1 month later. We-talk in baseline and post-conflict thought-listings was largely uncorrelated with we-talk during conflict discussions, but each form of we-talk was consistent between the two study visits. Their correlates were also distinct: more we-talk during conflict was associated with less hostility during conflict, whereas more baseline we-talk predicted greater closeness in both partners, as well as lower vocally encoded arousal and more positive emotion word use in partners after conflict. These novel data reveal that we-talk can be meaningfully distinguished by its context—whether language is sampled from private thoughts or marital discussions, and whether the study procedure requests relationship talk. Taken together, these variants of we-talk may have unique implications for relationship function and well-being.

Emotion word use in the conversational speech of schizophrenia patients

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie St-Hilaire ◽  
Alex S. Cohen ◽  
Nancy M. Docherty
Keyword(s):  
Conversational Speech ◽  
Word Use ◽  
Emotion Word

scholarly journals The Story of Us: Older and Younger Couples’ Language and Emotional Responses to Jointly Told Relationship Narratives

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 562-563
Author(s):  
Stephanie Wilson ◽  
William Malarkey ◽  
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser
Keyword(s):  
Age Differences ◽  
Marital Conflict ◽  
Marital Quality ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Older Couples ◽  
Word Use ◽  
Emotion Word

Abstract Social-emotional well-being is said to improve with age, but evidence for age differences in couples’ behavior and emotions—studied primarily during marital conflict—has been mixed. Characteristics of jointly told relationship stories predict marital quality among newlyweds and long-married couples alike, yet younger and older couples’ accounts have never been compared. To examine age differences in couples’ emotional responses and in their I/we-talk, emotion word use, and immediacy (i.e., self-focused, present-tense style), 42 married couples ages 22–77 recounted their relationship’s history then rated the discussion and their moods. Compared to younger couples, older couples used more we than I language, more positive than negative words, and less immediacy. Partners in older pairs shared more similar language patterns. In turn, lower immediacy mediated links between older age and less negative mood, and explained husbands’ more positive appraisals. Indeed, relationship accounts reveal novel insights into age differences in marriage and well-being.

How Henry Hellyer’s Use of Language Foretold His Suicide

Crisis ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 288-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna L. Baddeley ◽  
Gwyneth R. Daniel ◽  
James W. Pennebaker
Keyword(s):  
Negative Emotion ◽  
First Person ◽  
Person Plural ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Word Use ◽  
Emotion Word ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Pronoun Use ◽  
First Person Plural

Background: Henry Hellyer was an accomplished surveyor and explorer in Australia in the early 1800s whose apparent suicide at the age of 42 has puzzled historians for generations. He left behind several written works, including letters, journals, and reports. Aims: The current study assessed changes in the ways Hellyer used words in his various written documents during the last 7 years of his life. Methods: Hellyer’s writings were analyzed using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count program. Results: Hellyer showed increases in first-person singular pronoun use, decreases in first-person plural pronoun use, and increases in negative emotion word use. As this is a single, uncontrolled case study, caution is recommended in generalizing from the current results. Conclusions: Results suggest Hellyer’s increasing self-focused attention, social isolation, and negative emotion. Findings are consistent with increasing depression and suicidal ideation. Implications for using computerized text analysis to decode people’s psychological states from their written records are discussed.

scholarly journals Natural emotion vocabularies as windows on distress and well-being

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Vine ◽  
Ryan L. Boyd ◽  
James W. Pennebaker
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
Emotion Word ◽  
Vocabulary Richness ◽  
Natural Emotion

Abstract To date we know little about natural emotion word repertoires, and whether or how they are associated with emotional functioning. Principles from linguistics suggest that the richness or diversity of individuals’ actively used emotion vocabularies may correspond with their typical emotion experiences. The current investigation measures active emotion vocabularies in participant-generated natural speech and examined their relationships to individual differences in mood, personality, and physical and emotional well-being. Study 1 analyzes stream-of-consciousness essays by 1,567 college students. Study 2 analyzes public blogs written by over 35,000 individuals. The studies yield consistent findings that emotion vocabulary richness corresponds broadly with experience. Larger negative emotion vocabularies correlate with more psychological distress and poorer physical health. Larger positive emotion vocabularies correlate with higher well-being and better physical health. Findings support theories linking language use and development with lived experience and may have future clinical implications pending further research.

Coordination of Emotion Word Use in Therapist-Client Psychotherapy Dyads

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zac E. Imel ◽  
Tyler Hunt ◽  
Jackie Barco ◽  
Halley J. Brown ◽  
Alexandra R. Kelly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Word Use ◽  
Emotion Word

scholarly journals Priming Feminine Typical Traits Does Not Change Autobiographical Memory Narrative Content

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Azriel Grysman ◽  
Qi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Order Effects ◽  
High Point ◽  
Word Use ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Emotion Word ◽  
And Control

Gender differences in autobiographical memory have been reported in many studies using narrative coding of features including emotion word use, connectedness to others, and event specific details, with women using more of these narrative features than men. The current pair of studies explored if these narrative tendencies are linked to a sense of self being feminine, by priming female participants to rate themselves on stereotypically feminine trait terms related to emotionality and relationships. In study 1, an online study, participants provided one high point and one low point memory narrative, either in a priming or control group. Narrative coding only differed between the prime and control groups on one of five narrative coded variables, and order effects suggested that the prime may not have been strong enough to influence the second narrative or low point narratives. Study 2 remedied methodological concerns by conducting in-person data collection, strengthening the prime, and eliciting only high point narratives. In study 2, no effects of the prime were found on narrative coded variables. Findings suggest these narrative variables are not influenced by priming femininity and contribute to a growing literature that is deepening an understanding of the source of gender differences in autobiographical memory.

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