We are in the midst of a technological revolution whereby, for the first time, researchers can
link daily word use to a broad array of real-world behaviors. This article reviews several …

An increasing number of studies in political communication focus on the “sentiment” or
“tone” of news content, political speeches, or advertisements. This growing interest in …

Legal clarity is important to understand and measure because of its connection to the rule of
law. We provide the first systematic examination of the clarity of Supreme Court opinions and …

Abstract Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC; Pennebaker, Booth, & Francis, 2007) is a
word counting software program that references a dictionary of grammatical, psychological …

This book is the first study specifically to investigate the extent to which US Supreme Court
justices alter the clarity of their opinions based on expected reactions from their audiences …

From Reagan's regular invocation of America as" a city on a hill" to Obama's use of spiritual
language in describing social policy, religious rhetoric is a regular part of how candidates …

This research examined the coordination of interrogator and suspects' verbal behavior in
interrogations. Sixty-four police interrogations were examined at the aggregate and …

Lone‐actor terrorists are very often presented as emotionally and/or cognitively impaired—
yet is it really the case? The present article provides the first rigorous assessment of the …

In 3 experiments we show that, relative to reading literal sentences, reading metaphor
enhances performance on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET), an instrument …

The Occupy movement made a series of local 'sit‐ins' in cities across the world in response
to financial and political injustices. Prior to the movement's emergence, the Internet provided …