Predicting Final Course Performance From Students' Written Self-Introductions: A LIWC Analysis

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 469-479

  Robinson, Rebecca L ^a   Navea, Reanelle ^a   Ickes, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; language choice; lexical diversity; LIWC; personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887335535     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: 15526526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X13476869     Document Type: Article

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