From "sooo excited!!! "to "so proud": Using language to study development

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 178-188

  Kern, Margaret L ^a   Eichstaedt, Johannes C ^a   Schwartz, H Andrew ^b   Park, Gregory ^a   Ungar, Lyle H ^b   Stillwell, David J ^c   Kosinski, Michal ^c   Dziurzynski, Lukasz ^a   Seligman, Martin E P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adult development; Emotion; Language use; Measurement; Online social media

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891831382     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035048     Document Type: Article

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