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James W. Pennebaker
University of Texas at Austin
www.psy.utexas.edu/pennebaker
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Jenna Baddeley David Beaver Roger Booth
Cindy Chung Jason Ferrell Art Graesser
Jeff Hancock Molly Ireland Jenny Malin
YiTai Seih Yla Tausczik
Funding provided by:
National Science Foundation, Army Research Institute, DOD (CIFA), DHS (START), DIA
Disclosure: Pennebaker is co-owner of LIWC, a commercial text analysis software product.
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Talking Blogs Science
Personal pronouns 13.1 10.6 0.81
Impersonal pronouns 7.39 5.41 2.36
Articles 4.31 5.95 7.57
Prepositions 9.35 12.3 13.0
Conjunctions 5.60 6.34 4.28
Auxiliary verbs 12.4 9.00 3.92
Negations 2.92 1.78 0.40
Quantifiers 2.23 2.79 1.93
Common adverbs 6.22 5.46 1.35
Total function words 57.9 55.5 34.8
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picture elderly woman speak middle aged woman looks condescending calculating
see old woman looking years remembering beautiful young
old woman witch looks coaxing young
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Emotional state and reactions
Thinking style: Categorical vs. narrative
• Human relationships: Language style matching Status
Liking and loving
Group cohesiveness and productivity
• Community, culture, and history
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Demographics and personality
Thinking style: Categorical vs. narrative
• Human relationships: Language style matching Status
Liking and loving
Group cohesiveness and productivity
• Community, culture, and history
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Demographics and personality
Emotional state and reactions
• Human relationships: Language style matching Status
Liking and loving
Group cohesiveness and productivity
• Community, culture, and history
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• The individual Demographics and personality
Emotional state and reactions
Thinking style: Categorical vs. narrative
Liking and loving
Group cohesiveness and productivity
• Community, culture, and history
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• The individual Demographics and personality
Emotional state and reactions
Thinking style: Categorical vs. narrative
Status
Group cohesiveness and productivity
• Community, culture, and history
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• The individual Demographics and personality
Emotional state and reactions
Thinking style: Categorical vs. narrative
Status
Liking and loving
• Community, culture, and history
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• The individual Demographics and personality
Emotional state and reactions
Thinking style: Categorical vs. narrative
• Human relationships: Language style matching Status
Liking and loving
Group cohesiveness and productivity
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Language Style Matching (LSM)
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• The individual Demographics and personality
Emotional state and reactions
Thinking style: Categorical vs. narrative
Status
Liking and loving
Group cohesiveness and productivity
• Community, culture, and history
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Original Words
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• In the aforementioned an is about to to a who
and
• I an back on her how it was to be and
• The is a or something. She kinda like she is the young one to do something
Content Words
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picture elderly womanspeak middle aged woman looks
condescending calculating
old woman looking years remembering beautiful young
old woman witch looks coaxing young
Function Words