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Cindy K. Chung |
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Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Psychology The cindyk.chung@mail.utexas.edu |
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Research |
How do the words you use reflect your personality, psychological
states, and social groups? I have studied, for example, how word use differs
between winning and losing presidential candidates, between successful and
failed dieters, and between collectivists and individualists.
One line of my research focuses on the use of words that people
can't readily manipulate. Function words (e.g. articles, prepositions,
pronouns, etc.) are markers of linguistic style. They tend to be more reliable
markers in detecting personality traits and psychological states than are
regular content words (e.g. nouns, regular verbs, etc). My second line of
research focuses on extracting statistical patterns of word use in order to
track topics over time, across cultures, and in multiple languages. All of my
work involves the development and application of computerized text analysis
tools.
Most experimental and clinical psychologists, market researchers,
or forensic investigators have verbal, open-ended data recorded from past
studies, or now have access to natural language samples online. My research
seeks to enhance work in these areas by offering a fast, reliable, and ecologically
valid way of assessing individuals and their social worlds.
Chung,
C. K., & Pennebaker, J. W. (in press).
Language. In D. S. Dunn (Ed.),
Chung,
C. K., & Pennebaker, J. W. (in press).
Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC): pronounced “Luke”,… and other useful
facts. In P. McCarthy and C. Boonthum, Applied natural language processing and content analysis:
Identification, investigation, and resolution.
Chung,
C.K., & Pennebaker, J.W. (2007).
The psychological functions of function words. In K. Fiedler (Ed.), Social communication (pp. 343-359).
Pennebaker, J. W., Chung, C.
K.,
Ramirez-Esparza,
N., Chung, C. K., Sierra-Otero, G., & Pennebaker, J. W. (in press). Cross-cultural constructions of self-schemas:
American and Mexican college students. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Kramer,
A. D. I., & Chung, C. K. (2011).
Dimensions of self-expression in Facebook status updates. Proceedings of the 2011 International
Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), pp.169-176.
Chung, C. K., &
Pennebaker, J. W. (2008). Revealing dimensions of thinking in open-ended
self-descriptions: An automated meaning extraction method for natural language.
Journal of Research in Personality, 42,
96-132. [pdf]
Lee, C. H., Kim, K., Seo,
Y. S., & Chung, C. K. (2007). The
relationship between personality and language use. Journal of General
Psychology, 134, 405-413. [pdf]
Slatcher, R. B., Chung,
C. K., Pennebaker, J. W., & Stone, L. D. (2007). Winning words: Individual
differences in linguistic style among
Pennebaker, J. W.,
Slatcher, R. B., & Chung, C. K. (2005).
Linguistic markers of psychological state through media interviews: John Kerry
and John Edwards in 2004, Al Gore in 2000. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Special Issue:
The Social Psychology of the 2004
Chung,
C. K., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2011).
Using computerized text analysis to assess threatening communications and
actual behavior. In C. Chauvin (Ed.), Threatening communications and behavior: Perspectives in the
pursuit of public figures (pp.3-32).
Hancock, J. T., Beaver, D. I., Chung, C. K., Frazee, J.,
Pennebaker, J. W., Graesser, A. C., & Cai, Z. (2010). Social language
processing: A framework for analyzing the communication of terrorists and
authoritarian regimes. Behavioral Sciences in Terrorism and Political Aggression, Special
Issue: Memory and Terrorism, 2, 108-132.
Pennebaker,
J. W., & Chung, C. K. (2008). Computerized text analysis of al-Qaeda
statements. In K. Krippendorff and M. Bock (Eds.), A content analysis reader (pp. 453-466).
Pennebaker, J. W., & Chung, C. K. (2005). Tracking the social dynamics of responses to
terrorism: Language, behavior, and the Internet. In, S. Wessely and V. N. Krasnov
(Eds.), Psychological responses to the new
terrorism: A NATO
Seih,
Y. T., Chung, C. K., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2011). Experimental manipulations
of perspective taking and perspective switching in expressive writing. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 926-937.
Pennebaker, J. W., & Chung, C. K. (2011). Expressive writing and its links to mental and
physical health. In H. S. Friedman (Ed.),
Pennebaker, J. W. &
Chung, C. K. (2010). Expressive writing, emotional upheavals, and health. In J.
F. Evans (Ed.), Wellness & writing connections:
Writing for better physical, mental, and spiritual health (pp.33-112).
Wolf,
M., Chung, C. K., & Kordy, H. (2010).
Inpatient treatment to online aftercare: E-mailing themes as a function of
therapeutic outcomes. Psychotherapy Research, 20, 71-85.
Wolf,
M., Chung, C. K., & Kordy, H. (2010).
MEM’s search for meaning: A rejoinder. Psychotherapy Research, 20, 93-99.
Ramirez-Esparza,
N., Chung, C. K., Sierra-Otero, G., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2009). El lenguaje de la depresión: Categorías
lingüísticas y temas usados en foros de discusión en el internet en Inglés y en
Español . [The language of depression: Linguistic categories and themes used in
discussion forums on the internet in English and Spanish]. Revista de la Asociación de
Psicoterapia de la República
Chung, C. K., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2008). Variations in the spacing
of expressive writing sessions. British Journal of
Health Psychology, 13, 15-21. [pdf]
Chung, C. K., Jones, C.,
Liu, A., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2008). Predicting success and failure in weight
loss blogs through natural language use. Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference
on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 180-181. [pdf]
Ramirez-Esparza, N., Chung, C. K., Kacewicz, E., & Pennebaker,
J. W. (2008). The psychology of word
use in depression forums in English and in Spanish: Testing two text analytic
approaches. Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Weblogs
and Social Media (ICWSM), 102-108. [pdf]
Pennebaker, J. W., & Chung, C. K. (2007). Expressive
writing, emotional upheavals, and health. In H. S. Friedman and R. C. Silver
(Eds.), Foundations of health psychology (pp. 263-284).
Chung,
C. K., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2005).
Assessing quality of life through natural language use: Implications of
computerized text analysis. In W. Lenderking and D. Revicki (Eds.), Advancing health outcomes, research methods, and clinical
applications (pp.79-94).
Ramirez-Esparza,
N., Chung, C. K., Sierra-Otero, G., & Pennebaker, J. W. (in press). Cross-cultural constructions of self-schemas:
American and Mexican college students. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Kailer, A., & Chung, C.K. (2011).
The Russian LIWC2007 dictionary.
Piolat, A., Booth,
R. J., Chung, C. K., Davids, M., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2011). The French LIWC2007 dictionary.
Piolat, A., Booth, R. J.,
Chung, C. K., Davids, M., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2011). La version Française
du LIWC : Modalités de construction et exemples d’application [The French
version of LIWC: Modalities of construction and examples of use.] Psychologie Française, 56, 145-159.
Hayeri, N., Chung, C. K., Booth, R. J., &
Pennebaker, J. W. (2010). LIWC for
Arabic texts.
Wolf, M., Chung, C. K., & Kordy, H. (2010). Inpatient treatment to online aftercare:
E-mailing themes as a function of therapeutic outcomes. Psychotherapy Research, 20, 71-85.
Wolf,
M., Chung, C. K., & Kordy, H. (2010).
MEM’s search for meaning: A rejoinder. Psychotherapy Research, 20, 93-99.
Ramirez-Esparza,
N., Chung, C. K., Sierra-Otero, G., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2009). El lenguaje de la depresión: Categorías
lingüísticas y temas usados en foros de discusión en el internet en Inglés y en
Español . [The language of depression: Linguistic categories and themes used in
discussion forums on the internet in English and Spanish]. Revista de la Asociación de
Psicoterapia de la República
Ramirez-Esparza, N., Chung, C. K., Kacewicz, E.,
& Pennebaker, J. W. (2008). The psychology of word use in depression forums
in English and in Spanish: Testing two text analytic approaches. Proceedings
of the 2008 International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM),
102-108. [pdf]
Lee, C. H., Kim, K., Seo, Y. S., & Chung, C. K. (2007). The
relationship between personality and language use. Journal of General Psychology, 134,
405-413. [pdf]