Winning words: Individual differences in linguistic style among U.S. presidential and vice presidential candidates

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Impression Management and Retrospective Sense-Making in Corporate Narratives: A Social Psychology Perspective (2011, methodology): “This program has been used in numerous studies to examine linguistic manifestations of psychological processes and behaviour, such as personality characteristics of US presidential candidates ( Slatcher et al. , 2007”
Effects of an Advancing Tenure on CEO Cognitive Complexity (2020, methodology): “And others have used inductively-derived dictionaries (Pennebaker and King 1999, Slatcher et al. 2007), as opposed to the deductive approach we employ. absolutist or black-and-white thinking.”
Am “I” more important than “we”? Couples’ word use in instant messages (2008, background): “Over the past decade, researchers have shown that specific words used in spoken and written communication are linked with, for example, cognitive functioning (Lee, Park, & Seo, 2006), social connectedness (Burke & Dollinger, 2005), team performance (Fischer, McDonnell, & Orasanu, 2007), perceptions ”
Algorithmic stemmers or morphological analysisq An evaluation (2009, background): “Perhaps the best known example is the analysis of function words to determine the authorship of a group of essays in The Federalist (Mosteller and Wallace, 1964), and more recently social scientists have developed large categorized lexicons in order to connect language use with multiple kinds of ind”