The Sounds of Social Life: A Psychometric Analysis of Students' Daily Social Environments and Natural Conversations

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 857-870

  Mehl, Matthias R ^a   Pennebaker, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS; STUDENT;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENTS;

EID: 0037997355     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.84.4.857     Document Type: Review

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