We're finding large social and psychological shifts since the start of #COVID19. Reddit and survey analyses show big jumps in anxiety and drops in anger. Nice findings on attentional and cognitive processing too. trackingsocial.life/2020/04/28/the… Ashwini Ashokkumar

People predict their futures: in 2yrs, less eating out and bars, more working from home, saving money, and time with family/friends. The new caution. trackingsociallife.wordpress.com/2020/05/16/wha… Ashwini Ashokkumar #COVID

Great post by Michigan researcher who is studying the juggling acts of working parents during #COVID, while she juggles. By Rada Mihalcea trackingsociallife.wordpress.com/2020/05/23/lif… #parenthood

A classic in the making. I’m very proud of this paper.

Really cool new research from Kate Blackburn and colleagues that used linguistic analysis to analyze 60k+ stories to identify an underlying narrative arc. advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/32/e…

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This is a stark analysis of the differences in the convention acceptance speeches by Biden and Trump.

Alex Kellogg points to a long tradition of conspiracy beliefs emerging when a plague, pandemic, or other cultural upheaval visits. There are some interesting ideas and data here.

Fascinating paper. By analyzing millions of Reddit posts over 10 years, we could track how people in cities changed in their social, thinking, and emotional behaviors on a weekly basis from before to after the onset of the covid pandemic.

LIWC-22 just released today! Language analysis on steroids. New dictionaries, topic modeling, word clouds, run with R or python, and more. #SPSP2022 #LIWC22 bit.ly/3LLCqD7

Putin's use of I-words (I, me, my) suggests he's going to attack. Very similar language patterns when GW Bush decided on Iraq. New #LIWC22 text analysis program helped to discover this. Check out blog (w/ Ashwini Ashokkumar & Ryan Boyd): bit.ly/3v4CqZg

We have now released the Spring 2022 update for LIWC-22 (version 1.1.0)! This update includes lots of tweaks/additions over the initial launch, including the much-anticipated Language Style Matching (LSM) functionality. Hooray!

This version of #LIWC22 is serious. Follow the thread and learn how it can make your life richer, more meaningful, and liwcfully lovely!

Hypocrisy in action. The same group that has pushed gun purchases with no licenses, no background checks, guns in classes. Hey Dan, Greg, Ted, show us some crocodile tears. Our hearts are broken again.

I love this paper. It's possible to measure people's identity with groups using the words they use. Relevant for #researchers interested in #cults #extremism #politics and #LIWC

Texans: disturbed by women’s health, anti-science, marijuana laws, corrupt politicians, stacked extremist school boards, abortion vigilantes?Register to vote by October 11. Talk to your friends and neighbors. votetexas.gov/register-to-vo…. I’m serious.