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You can find below a number of publications that use the Meaning Extraction Method or the Meaning Extraction Helper software in some form or another.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking for a “quick start” paper: Dave Markowitz<\/a> has written a wonderful one stop paper to help you get up and running. His paper can be found here:<\/p>\n

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Markowitz, D. M. (2021). The meaning extraction method: An approach to evaluate content patterns from large-scale language data. Frontiers in Communication<\/i>, 6<\/i>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fcomm.2021.588823<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Recommended for Beginners<\/td>2020<\/td>Markowitz, D. M. (2021). The meaning extraction method: An approach to evaluate content patterns from large-scale language data. Frontiers in Communication, 6. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fcomm.2021.588823<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Recommended for Beginners<\/td>2017<\/td>Boyd, R. L. (2017). Psychological text analysis in the digital humanities. In S. Hai-Jew (Ed.), Data analytics in the digital humanities (pp. 161\u2013189). New York: Springer International Publishing.<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Recommended for Beginners<\/td>2015<\/td>Boyd, R. L., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2015). A way with words: Using language for psychological science in the modern era. In C. Dimofte, C. Haugtvedt, & R. Yalch (Eds.), Consumer psychology in a social media world (pp. 222\u2013236). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781315714790
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Recommended for Beginners<\/td>2008<\/td>Chung, C. K., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2008). Revealing Dimensions of Thinking in Open-Ended Self-Descriptions: An Automated Meaning Extraction Method for Natural Language. Journal of Research in Personality, 42(1), 96\u2013132. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jrp.2007.04.006
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Values<\/td>2015<\/td>Boyd, R. L., Wilson, S. R., Pennebaker, J. W., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D. J., & Mihalcea, R. (2015). Values in Words: Using Language to Evaluate and Understand Personal Values. Proceedings of the Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 31\u201340. Retrieved from http:\/\/www.aaai.org\/ocs\/index.php\/ICWSM\/ICWSM15\/paper\/view\/10482<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Values<\/td>2016<\/td>Wilson, S., Mihalcea, R., Boyd, R. L., & Pennebaker, J. (2016). Cultural Influences on the Measurement of Personal Values through Words. Proceedings of the 2016 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, 314\u2013317.
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Values<\/td>2016<\/td>Wilson, S., Mihalcea, R., Boyd, R. L., & Pennebaker, J. (2016). Disentangling Topic Models: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Personal Values through Words. Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science, 143\u2013152. Retrieved from http:\/\/aclweb.org\/anthology\/W16-5619
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Forensics<\/td>2018<\/td>Boyd, R. L., Spangher, A., Fourney, A., Nushi, B., Ranade, G., Pennebaker, J., & Horvitz, E. (2018). Characterizing the Internet Research Agency\u2019s Social Media Operations During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election using Linguistic Analyses. PsyArXiv. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.31234\/osf.io\/ajh2q
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Forensics<\/td>2017<\/td>Drouin, M., Boyd, R. L., Hancock, J. T., & James, A. (2017). Linguistic analysis of chat transcripts from child predator undercover sex stings. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 28(4), 437\u2013457. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14789949.2017.1291707
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Forensics \/ Mental Health<\/td>2020<\/td>Miner, A. S., Markowitz, D. M., Peterson, B. L., & Weston, B. W. (2020). Examining the examiners: How medical death investigators describe suicidal, homicidal, and accidental death. Health Communication. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10410236.2020.1851862
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Health \/ Health Behaviors<\/td>2023<\/td>Juel, E., Futch, W., & Eiler, B. (2023). Connecting the pro-recovery eating disorder community: An analysis of the language on science, Twitter, and Reddit. Psychology of Popular Media. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1037\/ppm0000461<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Health \/ Health Behaviors<\/td>2018<\/td>Barrett, A., Murphy, M., & Blackburn, K. (2018). \u201cPlaying Hooky\u201d Health Messages: Apprehension, Impression Management, and Deception. Health Communication, 33(3), 326\u2013337. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10410236.2016.1266578
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Health \/ Health Behaviors<\/td>2020<\/td>Blackburn, K. G., Hontanosas, J., Nahas, K., Bajaj, K., Thompson, R., Monaco, A., Campos, Y., Tran, T., Obregon, S., & Wetchler, E. (2020). Food foraging online: Exploring how we choose which recipes to search and share. First Monday. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5210\/fm.v25i12.10863<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Health \/ Health Behaviors<\/td>2018<\/td>Blackburn, K. G., Yilmaz, G., & Boyd, R. L. (2018). Food for thought: Exploring how people think and talk about food online. Appetite, 123. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.appet.2018.01.022<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Health \/ Health Behaviors<\/td>2022<\/td>Gregson, R., Piazza, J., & Boyd, R. L. (2022). \u2018Against the cult of veganism\u2019: Unpacking the social psychology and ideology of anti-vegans. Appetite, 178, 106143. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.appet.2022.106143<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Health \/ Health Behaviors<\/td>2019<\/td>Jordan, K. N., Pennebaker, J. W., Petrie, K. J., & Dalbeth, N. (2019). Googling Gout: Exploring Perceptions About Gout Through a Linguistic Analysis of Online Search Activities. Arthritis Care & Research, 71(3), 419\u2013426. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/acr.23598
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Health \/ Health Behaviors<\/td>2016<\/td>Mitra, T., Counts, S., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2016). Understanding anti-vaccination attitudes in social media. Proceedings of the Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Presented at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.aaai.org\/ocs\/index.php\/ICWSM\/ICWSM16\/paper\/view\/13073
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Health \/ Health Behaviors<\/td>2021<\/td>Markowitz, D. M. (2021). How experts react: The World Health Organization\u2019s appraisal of COVID-19 via communication patterns. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 0261927X211026346. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0261927X211026346<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Health \/ Health Behaviors<\/td>2021<\/td>Moore, R. C., Lee, A. Y., Hancock, J. T., Halley, M. C., & Linos, E. (2021). Age-related differences in experiences with social distancing at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: A computational and content analytic investigation of natural language from a social media survey. JMIR Human Factors, 8(2), e26043. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2196\/26043<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Health \/ Health Behaviors<\/td>2020<\/td>Osadchiy, V., Jiang, T., Mills, J. N., & Eleswarapu, S. V. (2020). Low testosterone on social media: Application of natural language processing to understand patients\u2019 perceptions of hypogonadism and its treatment. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(10), e21383. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2196\/21383<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Health \/ Health Behaviors<\/td>2021<\/td>Thompson, C. M., Rhidenour, K. B., Blackburn, K. G., Barrett, A. K., & Babu, S. (2021). Using crowdsourced medicine to manage uncertainty on Reddit: The case of COVID-19 long-haulers. Patient Education and Counseling. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.pec.2021.07.011<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Health \/ Health Behaviors<\/td>2018<\/td>Pasca, P., Ciavolino, E., & Boyd, R. L. (2018). A data-mining approach to the Parkour discipline. 49th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society. Presented at the 49th Scientific meeting of the Italian Statistical Society. Retrieved from http:\/\/meetings3.sis-statistica.org\/index.php\/sis2018\/49th\/paper\/view\/1583
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Health \/ Health Behaviors<\/td>2024
\n<\/td>		Davidson, C. A., Booth, R., Jackson, K. T., & Mantler, T. (2024). Toxic relationships described by people with breast cancer on Reddit: Topic modeling study. JMIR Cancer, 10(1), e48860. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2196\/48860<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Health \/ Health Behaviors<\/td>2024
\n<\/td>		Larsen, M., Holde, G. E., & Johnsen, J.-A. K. (2024). Investigating patient satisfaction through web-based reviews of Norwegian dentists: Quantitative study using the Meaning Extraction Method. Journal of Participatory Medicine, 16(1), e49262. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2196\/49262<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Personality \/ Individual Differences<\/td>2023<\/td>Hoemann, K., Lee, Y., Kuppens, P., Gendron, M., & Boyd, R. L. (2023). Emotional granularity is associated with daily experiential diversity. Affective Science. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s42761-023-00185-2<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Personality \/ Individual Differences<\/td>2007<\/td>Argamon, S., Koppel, M., Pennebaker, J. W., & Schler, J. (2007). Mining the Blogosphere: Age, gender and the varieties of self-expression. First Monday, 12(9). Retrieved from http:\/\/uncommonculture.org\/ojs\/index.php\/fm\/article\/view\/2003
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Personality \/ Individual Differences<\/td>2018<\/td>Chung, C. K., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2018). Textual Analysis. In Measurement in Social Psychology (pp. 153\u2013173). Routledge.
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Personality \/ Individual Differences<\/td>2015<\/td>Boyd, R. L., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2015). Did Shakespeare write Double Falsehood? Identifying individuals by creating psychological signatures with text analysis. Psychological Science, 26(5), 570\u2013582. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0956797614566658
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Personality \/ Individual Differences<\/td>2011<\/td>Kramer, A., & Chung, C. (2011). Dimensions of Self-Expression in Facebook Status Updates. Proceedings of the Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 169\u2013176. Retrieved from http:\/\/www.aaai.org\/ocs\/index.php\/ICWSM\/ICWSM11\/paper\/view\/2888
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Personality \/ Individual Differences<\/td>2017<\/td>Rodr\u00edguez-Arauz, G., Ram\u00edrez-Esparza, N., P\u00e9rez-Brena, N., & Boyd, R. L. (2017). Hablo Ingl\u00e9s y Espa\u00f1ol: Cultural Self-Schemas as a Function of Language. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1\u201315. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2017.00885
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Personality \/ Individual Differences<\/td>2020<\/td>Khan, E. M., Mukta, Md. S. H., Ali, M. E., & Mahmud, J. (2020). Predicting users\u2019 movie preference and rating behavior from personality and values. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 10(3), 22:1-22:25. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3338244<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Personality \/ Individual Differences<\/td>2016<\/td>Mukta, Md. S. H., Ali, M. E., & Mahmud, J. (2016). Identifying and validating personality traits-based homophilies for an egocentric network. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 6(1), 74. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13278-016-0383-4
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Personality \/ Individual Differences<\/td>2023<\/td>Abe, J. A. A. (2023). Developmental themes in the narrative of adults with early international experiences. Journal of Adult Development. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10804-023-09464-5<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Personality \/ Individual Differences<\/td>2024
\n<\/td>		Fetterman, A. K., Evans, N. D., Ravey, E. P., Henderson, P. R., Tran, B. H. L., & Boyd, R. L. (2024). The topics of nostalgic recall: The benefits of nostalgia depend on the topics that one recalls. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 19485506241229305. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/19485506241229305<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Personality \/ Individual Differences<\/td>2025<\/td>Curtis, S., Evans, N. D., & Fetterman, A. K. (2025). On the Dark Triad and wrongness admission: An exploration of associations in scenarios, hypotheticals, and daily life. European Journal of Personality, 08902070251405521. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/08902070251405521<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Personality \/ Individual Differences<\/td>2024<\/td>Lin, M., & Ram\u00edrez-Esparza, N. (2024). Checking multiple boxes: Themes associated with bicultural identities. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 00220221241249999. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00220221241249999<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mental Health<\/td>2010<\/td>Wolf, M., Chung, C. K., & Kordy, H. (2010). Inpatient treatment to online aftercare: E-mailing themes as a function of therapeutic outcomes. Psychotherapy Research, 20(1), 71\u201385. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10503300903179799
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Mental Health<\/td>2010<\/td>Fitzpatrick, M. R., & Armstrong, C. R. (2010). Beyond the tip of the iceberg: Exploring the potential of the meaning extraction method and aftercare e-mail themes. Psychotherapy Research, 20(1), 86\u201389. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10503300903352719
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Mental Health<\/td>2014<\/td>Freyberg, R., Chung, C. K., Freyberg, Z., Barnhill, J., Ferrando, S., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2014). The write stuff: Relationships between narrative content and psychiatric illness. Narrative Inquiry, 24(1), 28\u201339. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1075\/ni.24.1.02fre
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Mental Health<\/td>2013<\/td>Lowe, R. D., Heim, D., Chung, C. K., Duffy, J. C., Davies, J. B., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2013). In verbis, vinum? Relating themes in an open-ended writing task to alcohol behaviors. Appetite, 68, 8\u201313. http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.appet.2013.04.008
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Mental Health<\/td>2017<\/td>Jose, R. (2017). Community Organizations and Individual Mental Health in the Wake of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings.<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mental Health<\/td>2019<\/td>P\u00e9rez-Rosas, V., Mihalcea, R., Resnicow, K., Singh, S., & An, L. (2017). Understanding and predicting empathic behavior in counseling therapy. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 1426\u20131435. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18653\/v1\/P17-1131<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mental Health<\/td>2019<\/td>Rhidenour, K. B., Barrett, A. K., & Blackburn, K. G. (2019). Heroes or Health Victims?: Exploring How the Elite Media Frames Veterans on Veterans Day. Health Communication, 34(4), 371\u2013382. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10410236.2017.1405481
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Mental Health<\/td>2020<\/td>Currin-McCulloch, J., Stanton, A., Boyd, R., Neaves, M., & Jones, B. (2020). Understanding breast cancer survivors\u2019 information-seeking behaviours and overall experiences: A comparison of themes derived from social media posts and focus groups. Psychology & Health, 1\u201318. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/08870446.2020.1792903
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Mental Health<\/td>2008<\/td>Ramirez-esparza, N., Chung, C. K., Kacewicz, E., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2008). The psychology of word use in depression forums in English and in Spanish: Testing two text analytic approaches. In Proc. ICWSM 2008.
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Human Sexuality<\/td>2017<\/td>Griffin, E. M., & Fingerman, K. L. (2017). Online Dating Profile Content of Older Adults Seeking Same- and Cross-Sex Relationships. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 0(0), 1\u201321. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1550428X.2017.1393362
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Human Sexuality<\/td>2019<\/td>Gouvernet, B., Wunsch, S., & Brenot, P. (2019). Is male orgasm complex? Exploratory study of discourse about the orgasm of 923 men in heterosexual couple. Sexologies, 28(2), 73\u201382. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.sexol.2018.02.014
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Human Sexuality<\/td>2020<\/td>Jiang, T., Osadchiy, V., Mills, J. N., & Eleswarapu, S. V. (2020). Is it all in my head? Self-reported psychogenic erectile dysfunction and depression are common among young men seeking advice on social media. Urology. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.urology.2020.04.100<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Human Sexuality<\/td>2019<\/td>Handy, A. B., Stanton, A. M., & Meston, C. M. (2019). What Does Sexual Arousal Mean to You? Women With and Without Sexual Arousal Concerns Describe Their Experiences. The Journal of Sex Research, 56(3), 345\u2013355. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00224499.2018.1468867
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Human Sexuality<\/td>2018<\/td>Kilimnik, C. D., Boyd, R. L., Stanton, A. M., & Meston, C. M. (2018). Identification of Nonconsensual Sexual Experiences and the Sexual Self-Schemas of Women: Implications for Sexual Functioning. Archives of Sexual Behavior. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10508-018-1229-0
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Human Sexuality<\/td>2017<\/td>Pulverman, C. S., Boyd, R. L., Stanton, A. M., & Meston, C. M. (2017). Changes in the sexual self-schema of women with a history of childhood sexual abuse following expressive writing treatment. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 9(2), 181\u2013188. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1037\/tra0000163
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Human Sexuality<\/td>2020<\/td>Seehuus, M., Handy, A. B., & Stanton, A. M. (2020). Change in the popularity of transgressive content in written erotica between 2000 and 2016. The Journal of Sex Research, 0(0), 1\u20138. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00224499.2020.1716206<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Human Sexuality<\/td>2019<\/td>Seehuus, M., Stanton, A. M., & Handy, A. B. (2019). On the Content of \u201cReal-World\u201d Sexual Fantasy: Results From an Analysis of 250,000+ Anonymous Text-Based Erotic Fantasies. Archives of Sexual Behavior. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10508-018-1334-0
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Human Sexuality<\/td>2015<\/td>Stanton, A. M., Boyd, R. L., Pulverman, C. S., & Meston, C. M. (2015). Determining women\u2019s sexual self-schemas through advanced computerized text analysis. Child Abuse and Neglect, 46. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.chiabu.2015.06.003
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Human Sexuality<\/td>2018<\/td>Olivarez, O., Hardie, R., & Blackburn, K. G. (2018). The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 0261927X18793976. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0261927X18793976
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Human Sexuality<\/td>2017<\/td>Stanton, A. M., Meston, C. M., & Boyd, R. L. (2017). Sexual Self-Schemas in the Real World: Investigating the Ecological Validity of Language-Based Markers of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 20(6). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1089\/cyber.2016.0657
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Human Sexuality<\/td>2024<\/td>Kilimnik, C. D., McMahon, L. N., & Meston, C. M. (2024). Undergraduate students\u2019 definitions of sexual violence labels across the rise of the #metoo movement. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 48(3), 430\u2013442. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/03616843241239634<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2017<\/td>Davis, E. M. (2017). Digital dating: Online dating profiles of older and younger gay, lesbian, and heterosexual adults (Thesis). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15781\/T2QJ78F4T
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Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2025<\/td>Veitch, P., & Gregson, R. (2025). The vegan dystopia: Understanding the psychosocial experience of vystopia. Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, 4, 1\u201322. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5964\/phair.17679<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2018<\/td>Ikizer, E. G., Ram\u00edrez-Esparza, N., & Boyd, R. L. (2018). #sendeanlat (#tellyourstory): Text Analyses of Tweets About Sexual Assault Experiences. Sexuality Research and Social Policy. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13178-018-0358-5
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Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2017<\/td>Ford, B. R. (2017). An Empirical Test of the Effects of Political Correctness: Implications for Censorship, Self-Censorship, and Public Deliberation (UC Santa Barbara). Retrieved from https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/12f562b0<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2017<\/td>Jones, N. M., Thompson, R. R., Dunkel Schetter, C., & Silver, R. C. (2017). Distress and rumor exposure on social media during a campus lockdown. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(44), 11663\u201311668. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.1708518114
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Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2019<\/td>Markowitz, D. M., & Griffin, D. J. (2019). When context matters: How false, truthful, and genre-related communication styles are revealed in language. Psychology, Crime & Law, 0(0), 1\u201324. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1068316X.2019.1652751<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2015<\/td>Millar, N., & Hunston, S. (2015). Adjectives, communities, and taxonomies of evaluative meaning. Functions of Language, 22(3), 297\u2013331. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1075\/fol.22.3.01mil
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Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2019<\/td>Gonz\u00e1lez, F., Yu, Y., Figueroa, A., L\u00f3pez, C., & Aragon, C. (2019). Global Reactions to the Cambridge Analytica Scandal: A Cross-Language Social Media Study. Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference, 799\u2013806. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3308560.3316456
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Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2019<\/td>Moncayo, K. (2019). How couple members view romantic conflict events: Extracting themes using computerized text analysis. TCNJ Journal of Student Scholarship, 21, 1\u201314.<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2019<\/td>Tong, S. T., Corriero, E. F., Wibowo, K. A., Makki, T. W., & Slatcher, R. B. (2019). Self-presentation and impressions of personality through text-based online dating profiles: A lens model analysis. New Media & Society. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1461444819872678
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Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2018<\/td>Samory, M., & Mitra, T. (2018). \u201cThe Government Spies Using Our Webcams\u201d: The Language of Conspiracy Theories in Online Discussions. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., 2(CSCW), 152:1\u2013152:24. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3274421<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2020<\/td>Markowitz, D. M., & Slovic, P. (2020). Social, psychological, and demographic characteristics of dehumanization toward immigrants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.1921790117
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Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2021<\/td>Sava\u015f, \u00d6., Greenwood, R. M., Blankenship, B. T., Stewart, A. J., & Deaux, K. (2021). All immigrants are not alike: Intersectionality matters in views of immigrant groups. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 9(1), 86\u2013104. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5964\/jspp.5575
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Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2021<\/td>Markowitz, D. M., & Slovic, P. (2021). Why we dehumanize illegal immigrants: A US mixed-methods study. PLOS ONE, 16(10), e0257912. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0257912<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2021<\/td>Shah, M., Seraj, S., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2021). Climate denial fuels climate change discussions more than local climate-related disasters. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 3741. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2021.682057<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2021<\/td>Fetterman, A. K., Evans, N. D., Exline, J. J., & Meier, B. P. (2021). What shall we call God? An exploration of metaphors coded from descriptions of God from a large U.S. undergraduate sample. PLOS ONE, 16(7), e0254626. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0254626<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2019<\/td>Pietraszkiewicz, A., Formanowicz, M., Send\u00e9n, M. G., Boyd, R. L., Sikstr\u00f6m, S., & Sczesny, S. (in press). The big two dictionaries: Capturing agency and communion in natural language. European Journal of Social Psychologyhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ejsp.2561<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2021<\/td>Foxman, M., Markowitz, D. M., & Davis, D. Z. (2021). Defining empathy: Interconnected discourses of virtual reality\u2019s prosocial impact. New Media & Society, 23(8), 2167\u20132188. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1461444821993120<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2023<\/td>Pham, M. D., Chaney, K. E., & Ram\u00edrez-Esparza, N. (2023). What are we fighting for? Lay theories about the goals and motivations of anti-racism activism. Race and Social Problems. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s12552-023-09393-8<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2023<\/td>Hansen, K., & \u015awiderska, A. (2023). Integrating open- and closed-ended questions on attitudes towards outgroups with different methods of text analysis. Behavior Research Methods. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3758\/s13428-023-02218-x<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Social Processes \/ Social Cognition<\/td>2022<\/td>Johnson, K. A., Weinberger, A. B., Dyke, E., Porter, G. F., Kraemer, D. J. M., Grafman, J., Cohen, A. B., & Green, A. E. (2023). Differentiating personified, supernatural, and abstract views of God across three cognitive domains. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 15(1), 128\u2013142. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1037\/rel0000460<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Education<\/td>2020<\/td>Eiler, B. A., Doyle, P. C., Al-Kire, R. L., & Wayment, H. A. (2020). Teaching computational social science skills to psychology students: An undergraduate research lab case study. Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 4(1), 5\u201314. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18833\/spur\/4\/1\/5
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Education<\/td>2020<\/td>Eiler, B. A., Doyle, P. C., Al-Kire, R. L., & Wayment, H. A. (2020). Teaching computational social science skills to psychology students: An undergraduate research lab case study. Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 4(1), 5\u201314. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18833\/spur\/4\/1\/5
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Education<\/td>2020<\/td>Lawner, E. K., & Ikizer, E. G. (2020). Effective teaching across disciplines: Text analysis of themes in faculty reflections (pp. 1\u201324). Association of College and University Educators.
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Education<\/td>2015<\/td>LeFebvre, L., LeFebvre, L., Blackburn, K., & Boyd, R. L. (2015). Student Estimates of Public Speaking Competency: The Meaning Extraction Helper and Video Self-evaluation. Communication Education, 64(3), 261\u2013279. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/03634523.2015.1014384
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Education<\/td>2018<\/td>Taraban, R., Marcy, W. M., LaCour, M. S., Pashley, D., & Keim, K. (2018). Do engineering students learn ethics from an ethics course. Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference.
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Education<\/td>2018<\/td>Taraban, R., Pe, W. M. M., & Koduru, L. (2018). Board 90: Tools to Assist with Collection and Analysis of Ethical Reflections of Engineering Students. 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.
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Education<\/td>2018<\/td>Taraban, R., Koduru, L., LaCour, M., & Marshall, P. (2018). Finding a Common Ground in Human and Machine-Based Text Processing. East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 5(1), 83\u201391. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.1436358
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Education<\/td>2020<\/td>Taraban, R., Robledo, D., Donato, F. V., Campbell, R. C., Kim, J.-H., Reible, D. D., & Na, C. (2020). Machine-assisted analysis of communication in environmental engineering. Proceedings of the 2020 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, 1\u201313. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18260\/1-2--34934<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Education<\/td>2025<\/td>Abeyta, A. A., & Du, X. (2025). What makes college meaningful for first-generation students? A quantitative content analysis of first-generation and continuing-generation student writings on why college is purposeful and important. Journal of First-Generation Student Success. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/26906015.2025.2546412<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Business, Politics, and Society<\/td>2021<\/td>Epifani, F., Pollice, F., & Urso, G. (2021). Il paesaggio come vocazione: Una disamina nella strategia nazionale per le aree interne in Italia. Documenti Geografici, 2, 81\u2013103. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.19246\/DOCUGEO2281-7549\/202002_04
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Business, Politics, and Society<\/td>2020<\/td>Jabr, W., & Zheng, Z. (Eric). (2020). Exploring firm strategy using financial reports: Performance impact of inward and outward relatedness with digitisation. European Journal of Information Systems, 1\u201321. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/0960085X.2020.1829511
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Humanities<\/td>2022<\/td>McCloskey, K., Ram\u00edrez-Esparza, N., & Johnson, B. T. (in press). Strange new worlds: Social content in popular Star Trek fanfiction versus commercial novels. Psychology of Popular Media. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1037\/ppm0000395<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Humanities<\/td>2021<\/td>Bourne, J. (2021). Hearing film music topics outside the movie theatre: Listening cinematically to pastorals. In C. Cenciarelli (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of cinematic listening (pp. 549\u2013574). Oxford University Press. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/oxfordhb\/9780190853617.001.0001<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other<\/td>2015<\/td>Pennebaker, J. W., Boyd, R. L., Jordan, K., & Blackburn, K. (2015). The development and psychometric properties of LIWC2015. Austin, TX.<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other<\/td>2023<\/td>Rice, R. E., & Bucy, E. P. (2023). Mapping media developments and issues: Topics, clusters, and content of JMCQ articles on communication technology\/media channels, 1935\u20132017. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 100(4), 901\u2013932. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/10776990231196895<\/td>link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other<\/td>2018<\/td>Meier, T., Boyd, R. L., Pennebaker, J. W., Mehl, M. R., Martin, M., Wolf, M., & Horn, A. B. (2018). \u201cLIWC auf Deutsch\u201d: The Development, Psychometrics, and Introduction of DE-LIWC2015 (pp. 1\u201342). Retrieved from University of Zurich website: https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.17605\/OSF.IO\/TFQZC
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Other<\/td>2024<\/td>Boyd, R. L., Morrison, N. R., Horwitz, S. D., Maciag, R., Travers-Hill, E., & Kim, Y. (2024). Are we listening to every word? Using multiple analytic methods to examine qualitative data. Cogent Mental Health, 3(1), 1\u201324. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/28324765.2024.2433791
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