The Secret Life of Pronouns

By R. Campbell, James W. Pennebaker. Psychology Science, 2003

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Subfields: Education, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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Changes in Pronoun Use in American Books and the Rise of Individualism, 1960-2008 (2013, background): “However, new technologies such as word coding computer programs (for a review, see Pennebaker, 2011) have made it possible to analyze language use in cultural products such as song lyrics (DeWall, Pond, Campbell, & Twenge, 2011).”
Word Use in Emotional Narratives about Failed Romantic Relationships and Subsequent Mental Health (2005, methodology): “In addition to the examination of words related to sensory and cognitive schemes in narratives of stressful experiences, examinations of pronoun use have recently been employed to divulge psychological states (Campbell & Pennebaker, 2003; Pennebaker, Mehl, & Niederhoffer, 2003).”
Psychological aspects of natural language. use: our words, our selves. (2003, background): “An exception to this is a study by Cegala (1989), who sought to identify linguistic correlates of conversational engagement and detachment.”
Human heuristics for AI-generated language are flawed (2022, background): “While participants may not always know why they did something (25), a multiparadigm approach (26) based on a statistical analysis of their judgments combined with a computational analysis of language features present in the self-descriptions allows us to independently reconstruct heuristics they…”
Unsupervised Learning for Expressive Speech Synthesis (2017, background): “Studies conducted by Pennebaker (2011) report that especially stop words contain a lot of expressive information.”
Predictive Biases in Natural Language Processing Models: A Conceptual Framework and Overview (2019, background): “While these differences are often subtle, they are distinct and cumulative (Trudgill, 2000; Kern et al., 2016; Pennebaker, 2011).”
(I'm) Happy to Help (You): The Impact of Personal Pronoun Use in Customer–Firm Interactions (2018, background): “Although “I” pronouns have been linked to a speaker’s egotistical self-focus (Pennebaker 2011) or selfinterest (e.g., Ickes, Reidhead, and Patterson 1986), the participation framework of a firm agent serving a customer renders such negative perceptions of “I” pronoun use unlikely.”
Knowledge-aware Assessment of Severity of Suicide Risk for Early Intervention (2019, background): “a direct experience or second hand experience [42].”
The Effect of Different Writing Tasks on Linguistic Style: A Case Study of the ROC Story Cloze Task (2017, background): “Campbell and Pennebaker (2003) also showed that the health benefits of writing emotional text are accompanied by changes in writing style, mostly in the use of pronouns.”
Finding and Characterizing Information Warfare Campaigns (2020, background): “1st person pronouns have been shown to reveal personality, maturity, emotional stability as well as other signals [191].”
Natural language processing in mental health applications using non-clinical texts† (2017, background): “The assumption, which is supported by research evidence (Strapparava and Mihalcea 2014; Pennebaker 2011), is that emotion terms reﬂect emotion feelings (i.e. if you use more positive words, it is because you feel more positive).”