We applied LIWC to the horoscopes and found that tentative language tends to be way more frequent than certain language, as we expected. Being vague is certainly the best prediction.

And finally, we had to ask #ChatGPT to make up a new Zodiac and the results didn't disappoint. Do you feel more like a penguin, a potato, or a llama?

This is one of the first projects to specifically look at what people say in VR. Analyzing language in social VR is essential, and we have more projects tackling this puzzle directly.

Work that builds on tools and techniques from Ryan Boyd James W Pennebaker @liwc_software and others!

What does verbal analytic thinking really measure? New work finds that the most reliable link to verbal analytic thinking is need for cognition, and less so cognitive ability. Content effects also matter! See here, in Applied Cognitive Psychology. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ac…

Want to analyze text? Check liwc.app and receptiviti.com @liwc_software Nazar Akrami #BehAnalysis2023 #ARCOMSwisslive

New paper out! We used LIWC text analysis to compare the two Adam Smith's books "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" and "The Wealth of Nations" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

Exciting news! Our Co-Founder, Dr. Brittain Hale, will be presenting her research on Zelenskyy at the 27th World Conference hosted by IPSA in July. Her research leverages the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) with the help of LIWC: Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count.

Charlotte Entwistle discussing key findings from her #PhD study with Ryan Boyd on social dysfunction in #BPD, using language analysis of free-writing prompts via LIWC: Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count #BABCP2023

I am developing an ecocritical dictionary LIWC-22 (1992 origin, streamlined 2007) has been an absolute blast, but it reminds me that AI is not new - it’s actually ancient Like the dot-com bubble when the internet wasnt new, please be careful with your investments

New paper on disciplinary bias in Educational Researcher - Editors. Using NLP on 3.5M comments, teachers sending students to the office were more negative toward Black vs. White students, and more impersonal toward Asian vs. White students. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/6SNGIMV…

‼️ RESCHEDULED Are you looking for a way to make content analysis easier and more efficient? Look no further than our LIWC Video Workshop! 🚂 Featuring Purdue Associate Professor, Jennifer Hoewe. 🗓️ Please join us Friday, Sept 29th at 12PM. @jenniferhoewe Purdue Liberal Arts

Extremely happy to announce that another of my PhD papers (2/3!!) has recently been published online: doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2… In this study, Ryan Boyd and I utilised computational linguistic methods to better understand & characterise the nature of social dysfunction in #BPD

Why yes, we're also on *that other app*: bsky.app/profile/liwc.a…

Today is a big day — we've just released a *big* update to LIWC-22, with lots of neat little additions and a couple of big additions to v1.8.0. Now, you can compare word frequencies, easily analyze Japanese-language texts with J-LIWC2015, and more! See: liwc.app/help/release-n…

In a new The Conversation U.S. piece with Hillary Shulman and Todd Rogers, we describe our Science Advances piece on the benefits of simple writing for #journalism and #news. Check it out! theconversation.com/readers-prefer…

Major LIWC-22 update released today! Boatloads of updates and new features. Key changes include several new ways for LIWC-22 to run on HPC/cluster computing environments, multilingual CLI support, and new dictionary evaluation features. Hooray!