Popular Press
Over the years, I’ve been part of some exciting projects and ideas that have caught the attention of the media. Below is a mix of articles—some featuring my work and ideas, and others that I’ve collaborated on or contributed to, along with a few pieces I’ve written for popular outlets.
| Story Title | Source/URL |
|---|---|
| Using Generative AI To Figure Out What People Mean Versus What They Say | Forbes |
| How language nerds solve crimes | PBS |
| Computers as Creative Collaborators for Businesses? | California Management Review |
| Verbal cues of authenticity are linked to positive social and business outcomes, according to new research | PsyPost |
| Putin, Bush, and Pronouns: Presaging War? | Planet Word |
| Study Compares FOX News and MSNBC Using 52,000 Transcripts, 283 Million Words | NewsWise |
| What can vegans learn from anti-vegans? | The Vegan Society |
| Breakups are more painful for MEN because they’re more ’emotionally invested’ in relationships than women, study finds | The Daily Mail |
| Men Are Just As Emotional As Women, Study Suggests | Forbes |
| Men suffer ‘more emotional pain than women’ in break-ups, finds study | Yahoo! |
| Men experience more heartbreak than women after a breakup, finds study | Metro |
| Divorce papers damp with tears? You must be a bloke | The Times |
| How Men Try to Cope with Heartache | Psychology Today |
| Diagnosing the Long Dead | Proto Magazine |
| Edgar Allan Poe probably didn’t commit suicide, says computer textual analysis | Fast Company |
| Computer analysis of Edgar Allen Poe’s work concludes he did NOT commit suicide | The Daily Mail |
| Depression and language: analysing Edgar Allan Poe’s writings to solve the mystery of his death | The Conversation |
| Analyse von TED-Talks: Emotionale Vorträge kommen besser an | Deutschlandfunk Nova |
| Using women’s language makes public speakers more influential | The Telegraph |
| New research finds our vocabularies can act as a window into psychological and physical well-being | PsyPost |
| Emotional Vocabulary Is Indicator of Wellbeing, Suggests New Study | Technology Networks |
| Psychological Profiling and Event Forecasting Using Computational Language Analysis | CREST Security Review |
| What Can Science Tell Us About Story Structure? | Science Friday |
| The Narrative Arc: What Big Data Tells Us About Storytelling | Psychology Today |
| Revealed: The building blocks of a good story | The Telegraph |
| How Many Characters Should a Tweet Be? We Ask the Experts | Wired |
| Why American voters were primed for a president who talks like Trump | Los Angeles Times |
| All the American presidents’ pronouns | The Japan Times |
| Trump’s speech: Less analytical, more sure than predecessors | Associated Press |
| Why American voters were primed for a president who talks like Trump | Chicago Tribune |
| Trolling the U.S.: Q&A on Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election | UT News |
| UT study: Where you live shapes how you talk about food | Spectrum News |
| Where People Live Shapes How They Talk About Food, Study Shows | UT News |
| Writing about trauma can improve health | The Daily Texan |
| What Does Your Social Media Style Say About You? | Psychology Today |
| Ryan Boyd’s Software Minimizes the Tedium of Language Analysis | Society for Personality and Social Psychology News |
| Toil and trouble: Researchers link Shakespeare to disputed play | Reuters |
| The Shakespeare Algorithm | The New Yorker |
| Research suggests Shakespeare wrote ‘lost’ play | CNN |
| A Shakespeare Play You’ve Never Heard Of | Pacific Standard |
| Shakespeare WASN’T a fraud: New research reveals he was ‘true author’ of disputed play | The Mirror |
| Study finds a disputed Shakespeare play bears the master’s mark | Los Angeles Times |
| Shakespeare’s Double Falsehood? Alas, that’s neither true nor false | The Conversation |
| Finding Shakespeare’s mark | The Boston Globe |