Sharing One's Story: On the Benefits of Writing or Talking About Emotional Experience

By Kate Niederhoffer, James W. Pennebaker. 2009

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Temporal Contiguity and Negativity Bias in the Impact of Online Word of Mouth (2013, unknown): “Although automatic coding is common in computer science and increasing in the fields of psychology (e.g., Niederhoffer and Pennebaker 2009) and marketing (e.g., Tirunillai and Tellis 2012), there have been few attempts to manually develop context-specific dictionaries and apply automatic processes…”
The relationship of core belief challenge, rumination, disclosure, and sociocultural elements to posttraumatic growth. (2013, background): “The general psychological benefits of disclosure are well-documented (Lepore & Smyth, 2002; Niederhoffer & Pennebaker, 2009; Pennebaker, 2003).”
Authentic happiness theory supported by impact of religion on life satisfaction: A longitudinal analysis with data for Germany (2010, background): “Further, religious people appear to cope better with stressful life events (Clark & Lelkes, 2008; Myers, 2008), and achieve this partly by finding greater meaning in the events and in lessons to be learned from them (Lyubomirsky et al., 2005; Niederhoffer & Pennebaker, 2002).”
The relationship between multidimensional competitive anxiety, cognitive threat appraisal, and coping strategies: A multi-sport study (2012, background): “…of emotions, a coping strategy that Carver et al. (1989) considered dysfunctional in most circumstances, other authors state that, when used for a short period of time, “releasing emotions” can be an adjusted and adaptive response in some contexts (Lazarus, 2000; Niederhoffer & Pennebaker, 2002).”
Rethinking Rumination (2008, background): “In a long line of impressive research, Pennebaker and colleagues (see reviews by Frattaroli, 2006; Niederhoffer & Pennebaker, 2002) have shown that people prompted to express distressing emotions about difﬁcult or traumatic events through writing about them or talking to others experience more…”
Being grateful is beyond good manners: Gratitude and motivation to contribute to society among early adolescents (2010, background): “This purposeful state of being may help the young teen embark on the tasks of articulating, sharing, and building the selfnarrative (Gergen and Gergen 1988; McAdams 2001) upon which a robust personal identity is based (Niederhoffer and Pennebaker 2002).”