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Unlocking the Power of Therapeutic Alliance: How Language Style Matching Can Revolutionize Therapy

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Leveraging artificial intelligence for resident recruitment

LIWC Research Series: Candidates for competitive medical residencies are largely assessed on their academic performance scores, which...

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Depression, negative emotionality, and self-referential language

LIWC Research Series: Studies have typically shown that those experiencing higher levels of depression tend to use more first-person...

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Language-based personality: A new approach to personality in a digital world

LIWC Research Series: Personality traits have been traditionally assessed using self-report surveys and questionnaires. However,...

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Natural language use as a marker of personality

LIWC Research Series: Research demonstrates how personality traits are reflected in the everyday natural language people use. This book...

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Language-action cues in spontaneous computer-mediated deception

LIWC Research Series: Context always matters in online deception. This study conceptualizes language-action cues as a dynamic and...

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Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination

LIWC Research Series: Consumers increasingly rate, review and re- search products online (Jansen, 2010; Litvin et al., 2008)....

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Using Facial Features to Contextualize Linguistic Analysis in Multimodal Communcation

LIWC Research Series: This paper demonstrates that analyzing language patterns in light of their associated facial expressions elicits...

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Identifying Linguistic Markers of More and Less Supportive Conversations

LIWC Research Series: Although the functions of messages varying in verbal person centeredness (PC) are well-established, we know less...

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Head versus heart: social media reveals differential language of loneliness from depression

LIWC Research Series: We study the language differentially associated with loneliness and depression using 3.4-million Facebook posts...

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Language Style Matching (LSM) and Marital Satisfaction In Older Adults

LIWC Research Series: Research on marital communication has focused on nonverbal behaviors (e.g., affect), leaving specific word use...

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Linguistic Synchrony: Indicator or Facilitator of Therapeutic Bond

LIWC Research Series: Interpersonal synchrony is an adaptive and pro-social process that has been associated with social bonding,...

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A Textual Analysis of US Corporate Social Responsibility Reports

LIWC Research Series: We employ computer-based textual analysis to examine disclosure patterns for a sample of US corporate social...

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Authentic First Impressions Relate to Interpersonal, Social, and Entrepreneurial Success

LIWC Research Series: People make impressions of others using the limited information available such verbal cues or communication...

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Predicting Early Indicators of Dropout in Online Therapy for Problem Drinkers

LIWC Research Series: Mental disorders such as Alcohol Use Disorders (AUD), including alcohol abuse and dependence, are highly prevalent...

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Tracking group identity through natural language within groups

LIWC Research Series: To what degree can we determine people's connections with groups through the language they use? In recent years,...

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Text Classification Approach to Detect Psychological Stress

LIWC Research Series: Nowadays, stress has become a growing problem for society due to its high impact on individuals but also on health...

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Lumen: A machine learning framework to expose influence cues in texts

LIWC Research Series: Phishing and disinformation are popular social engineering attacks with attackers invariably applying influence...

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Toward Causal Understanding of Therapist-Client Relationships: Language Modality+Social Entrainment

LIWC Research Series: The relationship between a therapist and their client is one of the most critical determinants of successful...

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Language style matching and treatment outcome in anorexia nervosa

LIWC Research Series: Psychotherapy is the treatment of choice for anorexia nervosa (AN) but mechanisms of action are still largely...

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Tracking Mental Health Risks and Coping Strategies in Healthcare Workers’ Online Conversations

LIWC Research Series: The mental health risks of the COVID-19 pandemic are magnified for medical professionals, such as doctors and...

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The narrative arc: Revealing core narrative structures through text analysis

LIWC Research Series: Scholars across disciplines have long debated the existence of a common structure that underlies narratives. Using...

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Linguistic measures of psychological distance track symptoms + outcomes in psychotherapy transcripts

LIWC Research Series: Using language to “distance” ourselves from distressing situations (i.e., by talking less about ourselves and the...

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Linguistic Synchrony Predicts the Immediate and Lasting Impact of Text-Based Emotional Support

LIWC Research Series: Emotional support is critical to well-being, but the factors that determine whether support attempts succeed or...

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Tracking group identity through natural language within groups

LIWC Research Series: Millions of people participate in identity-based social media communities (e.g., Reddit’s political communities)....

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Predicting Mental Health Status in Remote and Rural Farming Communities

LIWC Research Series: Australians living in rural and remote areas are at elevated risk of mental health problems and must overcome...

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Goal language is associated with attrition and weight loss on a digital program: Observational study

LIWC Research Series: Exploring associations between written language and behavioral weight loss program outcomes could potentially...

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Decoding bias: Gendered language in finance internship job postings

LIWC Research Series: Researchers evaluated the language content of job postings as a potential explanation for the gender imbalance in...

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‘Rapport myopia’ in investigative interviews

LIWC Research Series: Rapport-building has been shown to foster cooperation with both cooperative and uncooperative interviewees in...

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Linguistic Coordination as an Unobtrusive, Dynamic Indicator of Rapport...and Team Performance

LIWC Research Series: Language style matching (LSM; the extent to which individuals match others’ function or “filler” words in...

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Reciprocal language style matching in psychotherapy research

LIWC Research Series: Successful coordination of language, that is language style matching (LSM; Gonzales, Hancock, & Pennebaker, 2010)...

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Authentic First Impressions Relate to Interpersonal, Social, and Entrepreneurial Success

LIWC Research Series: This article examines how verbal authenticity influences person perception. Our work combines human judgments and...

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Within and Between-Person Differences in Language Used Across Anxiety Support Reddit Communities

LIWC Research Series: Although many studies have distinguished between the social media language use of people who do and do not have a...

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Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Is a Marker Specific to Anxiety, Depression, and Suicidal Ideation

LIWC Research Series: Absolutist thinking is considered a cognitive distortion by most cognitive therapies for anxiety and depression....

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Using LIWC to Analyze Participants’ Psychological Processing in Accounting JDM Research

LIWC Research Series: This paper provides methodological guidance for judgment and decision-making (JDM) researchers in accounting who...

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Language Style Matching as a Predictor of Social Dynamics in Small Groups

LIWC Research Series: Synchronized verbal behavior can reveal important information about social dynamics. This study introduces the...

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The impact of psycholinguistics in discriminating between fake news spreaders and fact checkers

Fake news is a threat to society. A huge amount of fake news is posted every day on social networks which is read, believed and sometimes...

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Novel Screening Tool System for Depressive Disorders using Social Media & Artificial Neural Networks

Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders with over 264 million people suffering from it. Improvement in screening...

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Exploring Language Markers of Mental Health in Psychiatric Stories

Research from Leiden University and Utrecht University finds Receptiviti’s science outperforms BERT and neural network based approaches...

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Natural emotion vocabularies as windows on distress and well-being

In the Receptiviti LIWC Research Series, we highlight important research conducted using our platform and science that has implications...

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Anchoring in the past, tweeting from the present: Cognitive bias in journalists’ word choices

This study examines journalists’ language in their reporting and what their word choices reveal about their cognitive mindsets. Reporters...

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Using women's language makes public speakers more influential

Today, on International Women's Day, we celebrate Receptiviti’s talented women; they are domain experts in linguistics, psychology,...

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A meta-analysis of correlations between depression and first person singular pronoun use

In the Receptiviti LIWC Research Series, we highlight important research conducted using our platform and science that has implications...

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A Twitter- based personality analysis of superstar entrepreneurs and managers

In the Receptiviti LIWC Research Series, we highlight important research conducted using our platform and science that has implications...

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Lying Words: Predicting Deception From Linguistic Styles

In the Receptiviti LIWC Research Series, we highlight important research conducted using our platform and science that has implications...

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Self-serving attribution bias and CEO turnover: Evidence from CEO interviews on CNBC

In the Receptiviti LIWC Research Series, we highlight important research conducted using our platform and science that has implications...

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Extracting signs of depression and suicidal ideation from college students’ writing

In the Receptiviti LIWC Research Series, we highlight important research conducted using our platform and science that has implications...

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It Takes Just 120 Seconds: Predicting Satisfaction in Technical Support Calls

In the Receptiviti LIWC Research Series, we highlight important research conducted using our platform and science that has implications...

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Psycholinguistic Markers of Therapeutic Rupture Types

In the Receptiviti LIWC Research Series, we highlight important research conducted using our platform and science that has implications...

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Language Style Matching in Psychotherapy: An Implicit Aspect of Alliance

In the Receptiviti LIWC Research Series, we highlight important research conducted using our platform and science that has implications...

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Impact of the length of stay at hotels on online reviews

LIWC Research Series: This study analyzes online review data collected from Booking.com by using LIWC to operationalize review depth,...