Linguistic styles: Language use as an individual difference

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1296-1312

  Pennebaker, James W ^a   King, Laura A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0033252854     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.77.6.1296     Document Type: Article

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