Changes in Pronoun Use in American Books and the Rise of Individualism, 1960-2008

By Jean M. Twenge, W. Keith Campbell, Brittany Gentile. 2013

138 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett

In Social Psychology

1. Yi Xu
2. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
3. T. Hamamura
4. Larry J. Nelson
5. Phillip L. Hammack
6. Carolyn McNamara Barry
7. S. Berzin
8. M. Lamb

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Yi Xu
2. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
3. T. Hamamura
4. Seth J. Schwartz
5. Larry J. Nelson
6. Carolyn McNamara Barry
7. Phillip L. Hammack
8. J. Côté

Citations in the corpus

• The Evidence for Generation We and Against Generation Me (2013, result): “Notably, there is a gender difference in patterns of scores on the NPI over recent decades, with studies that compare males and females showing an increase only for females (Trzesniewski, Donnellan, & Robins, 2008b; Twenge et al., 2008).”
• Changes in Chinese Culture as Examined Through Changes in Personal Pronoun Usage (2015, background): “Based on this rationale, and following the methodology used in the cross-temporal analyses of pronoun usage in American English (Twenge et al., 2013), the current research examined the changes in pronoun usage to infer changes in Chinese culture.”