Highlights•Psychologists have known for years that self-reports suffer from serious
limitations.•Linguistic measures of personality have proven to be extremely …

Abstract The Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) is a popular closed-vocabulary text
analysis software program that is used to understand whether individuals' use of linguistic …

Throughout history, scholars and laypeople alike have believed that our words contain
subtle clues about what we are like as people, psychologically speaking. However, the ways …

The ubiquity of social media provides a rich opportunity to enhance the data available to
mental health clinicians and researchers, enabling a better-informed and better-equipped …

This study presents a literature review of 22 studies published since 2004 that use linguistic
procedures to evaluate narratives by persons who had suffered any traumatic event. The …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic is a traumatic individual and collective chronic
experience, with tremendous consequences on mental and psychological health that can …

Identifying early predictors for psychiatric disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD), is crucial for effective treatment and prevention efforts. Obtaining such predictors is …

Most previous research on self-disclosure (SD) focused on its perceived retrospective
aspects using self-report questionnaires. Few studies investigated actual SD as reflected in …

This paper uses SIDE theory and an information seeking lens to examine the types of
information and support messages (N= 126,977 posts) veterans seek on the social …

COVID-19 broke out in China in December 2019 and rapidly became a worldwide pandemic
that demanded an extraordinary response from healthcare workers (HCWs). Studies …