Search Results - "Boyd, Ryan L."

Natural emotion vocabularies as windows on distress and well-being by Vine, Vera, Boyd, Ryan L., Pennebaker, James W.

“…To date we know little about natural emotion word repertoires, and whether or how they are associated with emotional functioning. Principles from linguistics…”
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Language-based personality: a new approach to personality in a digital world by Boyd, Ryan L, Pennebaker, James W

“…•Psychologists have known for years that self-reports suffer from serious limitations.•Linguistic measures of personality have proven to be extremely…”
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Mental profile mapping: A psychological single-candidate authorship attribution method by Boyd, Ryan L

“…Modern authorship attribution methods are often comprised of powerful yet opaque machine learning algorithms. While much of this work lends itself to concrete…”
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Social Media Discussions Predict Mental Health Consultations on College Campuses by Saha, Koustuv, Yousuf, Asra, Boyd, Ryan L., Pennebaker, James W., De Choudhury, Munmun

“…The mental health of college students is a growing concern, and gauging the mental health needs of college students is difficult to assess in real-time and in…”
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Posting patterns in peer online support forums and their associations with emotions and mood in bipolar disorder: Exploratory analysis by Jagfeld, Glorianna, Lobban, Fiona, Davies, Robert, Boyd, Ryan L, Rayson, Paul, Jones, Steven

“…Mental health (MH) peer online forums offer robust support where internet access is common, but healthcare is not, e.g., in countries with under-resourced MH…”
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Stereotyping in the digital age: Male language is "ingenious", female language is "beautiful" - and popular by Meier, Tabea, Boyd, Ryan L, Mehl, Matthias R, Milek, Anne, Pennebaker, James W, Martin, Mike, Wolf, Markus, Horn, Andrea B

“…The huge power for social influence of digital media may come with the risk of intensifying common societal biases, such as gender and age stereotypes…”
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How do online learners study? The psychometrics of students' clicking patterns in online courses by Tellakat, Mohini, Boyd, Ryan L, Pennebaker, James W

“…College students' study strategies were explored by tracking the ways they navigated the websites of two large (Ns of 1384 and 671) online introductory…”
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Comparing the language style of heads of state in the US, UK, Germany and Switzerland during COVID-19 by Dworakowski, Olenka, Meier, Tabea, Mehl, Matthias R., Pennebaker, James W., Boyd, Ryan L., Horn, Andrea B.

“…The COVID-19 pandemic posed a global threat to nearly every society around the world. Individuals turned to their political leaders to safely guide them…”
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HIV, multimorbidity, and health-related quality of life in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A population-based study by Stanton, Amelia M, Boyd, Ryan L, O'Cleirigh, Conall, Olivier, Stephen, Dolotina, Brett, Gunda, Resign, Koole, Olivier, Gareta, Dickman, Modise, Tshwaraganang H, Reynolds, Zahra, Khoza, Thandeka, Herbst, Kobus, Ndung'u, Thumbi, Hanekom, Willem A, Wong, Emily B, Pillay, Deenan, Siedner, Mark J

“…Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) assesses the perceived impact of health status across life domains. Although research has explored the relationship…”
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Applied Behavior Analysis as Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorders: Topic Modeling and Linguistic Analysis of Reddit Posts by Bellon-Harn, Monica L., Boyd, Ryan L., Manchaiah, Vinaya

“…Background: It is critical for professionals to understand the discourse landscape within various online and social media outlets in order to support families…”
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Hablo Inglés y Español: Cultural Self-Schemas as a Function of Language by Rodríguez-Arauz, Gloriana, Ramírez-Esparza, Nairán, Pérez-Brena, Norma, Boyd, Ryan L

“…Research has demonstrated that bilingual individuals experience a "double personality," which allows them to shift their self-schemas when they are primed with…”
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Natural Language Analysis and the Psychology of Verbal Behavior: The Past, Present, and Future States of the Field by Boyd, Ryan L., Schwartz, H. Andrew

“…Throughout history, scholars and laypeople alike have believed that our words contain subtle clues about what we are like as people, psychologically speaking…”
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Twitter language samples reflect collective emotional responses following political leaders’ rhetoric during the pandemic across four countries by Dworakowski, Olenka, Boyd, Ryan L., Meier, Tabea, Kuppens, Peter, Mehl, Matthias R., Nussbeck, Fridtjof W., Horn, Andrea B.

“…During the Covid-19 pandemic, the global public has relied on their political leaders to guide them through the crisis. The current study investigated if and…”
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‘Against the cult of veganism’: Unpacking the social psychology and ideology of anti-vegans by Gregson, Rebecca, Piazza, Jared, Boyd, Ryan L.

“…Despite the established health and ecological benefits of a plant-based diet, the decision to eschew meat and other animal-derived food products remains…”
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Examining long-term trends in politics and culture through language of political leaders and cultural institutions by Jordan, Kayla N., Sterling, Joanna, Pennebaker, James W., Boyd, Ryan L.

“…From many perspectives, the election of Donald Trump was seen as a departure from long-standing political norms. An analysis of Trump’s word use in the…”
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Verbal behavior and the future of social science by Boyd, Ryan L, Markowitz, David M

“…Natural language processing (NLP)-previously the domain of a select few language and computer scientists-is undergoing an unprecedented surge in popularity…”
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Food for thought: Exploring how people think and talk about food online by Blackburn, Kate G., Yilmaz, Gamze, Boyd, Ryan L.

“…This exploratory study examined the ways in which people communicate about food online by analyzing food-related conversations on Reddit, a social news…”
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Did Shakespeare Write Double Falsehood? Identifying Individuals by Creating Psychological Signatures With Text Analysis by Boyd, Ryan L., Pennebaker, James W.

“…More than 100 years after Shakespeare's death, Lewis Theobald published Double Falsehood, a play supposedly sourced from a lost play by Shakespeare and John…”
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The narrative arc: Revealing core narrative structures through text analysis by Boyd, Ryan L., Blackburn, Kate G., Pennebaker, James W.

“…We find a consistent, unified narrative structure that can be reliably quantified using modern text analysis methods. Scholars across disciplines have long…”
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The big two dictionaries: Capturing agency and communion in natural language by Pietraszkiewicz, Agnieszka, Formanowicz, Magdalena, Gustafsson Sendén, Marie, Boyd, Ryan L., Sikström, Sverker, Sczesny, Sabine

“…Four studies developed and validated two dictionaries to capture agentic and communal expressions in natural language. Their development followed the…”
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