Am “I” more important than “we”? Couples’ word use in instant messages

By Richard B. Slatcher, Simine Vazire, James W. Pennebaker. 2008

109 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction

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Citations in the corpus

• The Psychological Meaning of Words: LIWC and Computerized Text Analysis Methods (2010, unknown): “In a study of archived instant message conversation between heterosexual romantic partners shows a marginal trend that increased use of second person by the male participant predicted lower ratings of relationship satisfaction (Slatcher, Vazire, & Pennebaker, 2008).”
• Couples as socially distributed cognitive systems: Remembering in everyday social and material contexts (2014, background): “This simple measure can yield quite powerful insights into the nature and quality of intimate relationships (e.g. Acitelli et al., 1999; Reid et al., 2006; Slatcher et al., 2008).”