Gupta, Tina Horton, William S Haase, Claudia M Carol, Emily E Mittal, Vijay A
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Schizophrenia research
Familial emotional word usage has long been implicated in symptom progression in schizophrenia. However, few studies have examined caregiver emotional word usage prior to the onset of psychosis, among those with a clinical high-risk (CHR) syndrome. The current study examined emotional word usage in a sample of caregivers of CHR individuals (N = 37)...
Tache, Irina Warmelink, Lara Taylor, Paul Hope, Lorraine
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Frontiers in Psychology
Asking unexpected questions, asking the interviewee to sketch the room, and asking the interviewee to make a timeline are techniques that have been shown to help an interviewer detect deceit. However, evidence of the efficacy of these techniques comes from studies of North American and North-West European participants, who are on average more indiv...
Belz, Franz F. Adair, Kathryn C. Proulx, Joshua Frankel, Allan S. Sexton, J. Bryan
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Frontiers in Psychiatry
Geisler, James Dykeman, Cass
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Omega
While there is extensive research on the adaptive grief styles developed by Doka and Martin, this study is the first of its kind to explore the language used among each style of grief. This study used clinical vignettes from a variety of sources on instrumental and intuitive grieving in an attempt to decipher the language use across various linguis...
Cheng, Wen Ickes, William Park, Anna Wu, Hui-Ju Riani, Yuyun Agus
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Frontiers in Communication
An online survey was used to collect participants' retrospective accounts of an encounter with an “instant enemy” and an encounter with an “instant ally” in samples of 262 American and 250 Taiwanese respondents. Using software that measured the relative use of various word categories, we examined ingroup/outgroup differences and cultural difference...
Weintraub, Marc J Posta, Filippo Ichinose, Megan C Arevian, Armen C Miklowitz, David J
BackgroundWe examined whether digital phenotyping of spontaneous speech, such as the use of specific word categories during speech samples, was associated with depressive symptoms in youth who were at familial and clinical risk for mood disorders.MethodsParticipants (ages 13-19) had active mood symptoms, mood instability, and at least one parent wi...
Li, Ang Jiao, Dongdong
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Frontiers in Public Health
Introduction The highly public nature of cybersuicide contradicts long-held beliefs of offline suicide, which may cause differences in the way people perceive and respond to both of them. However, knowledge of whether and how suicide literacy differs between cybersuicide and offline suicide is limited. Methods By analyzing social media data, this p...
Ferreira, Caitlin Robertson, Jeandri Chohan, Raeesah Pitt, Leyland Foster, Tim
Purpose - This methodological paper demonstrates how service firms can use digital technologies to quantify and predict customer evaluations of their interactions with the firm using unstructured, qualitative data. To harness the power of unstructured data and enhance the customer-firm relationship, the use of computerized text analysis is proposed...
Belz, Franz F. Adair, Kathryn C. Proulx, Joshua Frankel, Allan S. Sexton, J. Bryan
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Frontiers in Psychiatry
Importance Emotional exhaustion (EE) rates in healthcare workers (HCWs) have reached alarming levels and been linked to worse quality of care. Prior research has shown linguistic characteristics of writing samples can predict mental health disorders. Understanding whether linguistic characteristics are associated with EE could help identify and pre...
Mayor, Eric Miché, Marcel Lieb, Roselind
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Heliyon
We report on the first investigation of large-scale temporal associations between emotions expressed in online news media and those expressed on social media (Twitter). This issue has received little attention in previous research, although the study of emotions expressed on social media has bloomed owing to its importance in the study of mental he...
