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Cindy K.
Chung |
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Postdoctoral
Fellow Department of
Psychology The chung@austin.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.
General Text Analysis References
Pennebaker, J. W., & Chung, C. K. (in press). Counting little words in big data: The psychology of communities,
culture, and history. In J. László,
J. Forgas, & O. Vincze
(Eds.), Social Cognition and
Communication. New York: Psychology Press.
Chung, C. K., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2012). Language. In D. S. Dunn (Ed.),
Chung, C. K., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2012).
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 (pp. 206-209).
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., Ireland, M., Gonzales, A. L.,
& Booth, R. J. (2007). The development and psychometric properties
of LIWC2007.
Personality Psychology
Ramirez-Esparza, N.,
Chung, C. K., Sierra-Otero, G., & Pennebaker, J.
W. (2012). Cross-cultural constructions of
self-schemas: American and Mexican college students. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 43, 233-250.
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
Forensic Psychology
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
Health and Clinical Psychology
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.), Oxford handbook of health
psychology (pp. 417-437).
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).
Foreign Language Text Analysis
Resources
Huang, C.-L., Chung, C. K., Hui, N. H. H., Lin, Y.-C., Seih,
Y., Lam, B. C. P., Chen, W.-C., Bond, M. H., & Pennebaker,
J. W. (in press). [The development of the Chinese Linguistic
Inquiry and Word Count dictionary]. Chinese Journal of Psychology.
Ramirez-Esparza, N., Chung,
C. K., Sierra-Otero, G., & Pennebaker, J. W.
(2012). Cross-cultural constructions of self-schemas: American
and Mexican college students. Journal of
Cross-Cultural Psychology, 43,
233-250.
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]