James W. Pennebaker
Impact in
- Social Psychology top 0.01%
- Mental Health via Writing
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Applied Psychology top 0.02%
Papers in
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- Mental Health via Writing 103
- Cultural Differences and Values 17
- Co-authors
- Yla Tausczik (8 shared papers)Matthias R. Mehl (18 shared papers)David Watson (4 shared papers)Kate Niederhoffer (2 shared papers)Laura A. King (3 shared papers)Cindy K. Chung (18 shared papers)Janice K. Kiecolt‐Glaser (4 shared papers)Ronald Glaser (4 shared papers)
- Journals
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (29 papers)Journal of Abnormal Psychology (8 papers)Journal of Language and Social Psychology (8 papers)Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (8 papers)Psychosomatic Medicine (7 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesUnited KingdomNew Zealand
In The Last Decade
James W. Pennebaker
323 papers receiving 43.5k citations
James W. Pennebaker's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 200
- Social Psychology 20.9k
- Applied Psychology 4.9k
- Clinical Psychology 13.1k
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 7.7k
- Developmental and Educational Psychology 5.8k
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Co-authors
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All Works
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| 1 | The Psychological Meaning of Words: LIWC and Computerized Text Analysis Methods Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 3787 |
| 2 | Health complaints, stress, and distress: Exploring the central role of negative affectivity. Hit paper breakdown → | 1989 | 2416 |
| 3 | Psychological Aspects of Natural Language Use: Our Words, Our Selves Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 1760 |
| 4 | Writing About Emotional Experiences as a Therapeutic Process Hit paper breakdown → | 1997 | 1557 |
| 5 | The Psychology of Physical Symptoms Hit paper breakdown → | 1982 | 1442 |
| 6 | Confronting a traumatic event: Toward an understanding of inhibition and disease. Hit paper breakdown → | 1986 | 1315 |
| 7 | Linguistic styles: Language use as an individual difference. Hit paper breakdown → | 1999 | 1220 |
| 8 | The Development and Psychometric Properties of LIWC2015 Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 991 |
| 9 | Lying Words: Predicting Deception from Linguistic Styles Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 940 |
| 10 | Handbook Of Mental Control Hit paper breakdown → | 1992 | 940 |
| 11 | Forming a story: The health benefits of narrative Hit paper breakdown → | 1999 | 932 |
| 12 | Disclosure of traumas and immune function: Health implications for psychotherapy. Hit paper breakdown → | 1988 | 800 |
| 13 | Stalking the perfect measure of implicit self-esteem: The blind men and the elephant revisited? Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 762 |
| 14 | Cognitive, Emotional, and Language Processes in Disclosure Hit paper breakdown → | 1996 | 727 |
| 15 | Putting stress into words: Health, linguistic, and therapeutic implications Hit paper breakdown → | 1993 | 695 |
| 16 | Language use of depressed and depression-vulnerable college students Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 675 |
| 17 | Disclosure of traumas and immune function: Health implications for psychotherapy. Hit paper breakdown → | 1988 | 665 |
| 18 | Opening up : the healing power of expressing emotions Hit paper breakdown → | 1990 | 659 |
| 19 | Linguistic predictors of adaptive bereavement. Hit paper breakdown → | 1997 | 613 |
| 20 | Linguistic Markers of Psychological Change Surrounding September 11, 2001 Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 594 |
About James W. Pennebaker
James W. Pennebaker is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, having authored 331 papers that have together received 47.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Mental Health via Writing (103 papers), Identity, Memory, and Therapy (28 papers), Digital Communication and Language (23 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (20 papers), Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining (20 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (17 papers), Mental Health Research Topics (17 papers) and Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Social Psychology (20.9k citations), Applied Psychology (4.9k citations), Clinical Psychology (13.1k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (7.7k citations) and Developmental and Educational Psychology (5.8k citations). James W. Pennebaker has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Frequent co-authors include Yla Tausczik, Matthias R. Mehl, David Watson, Kate Niederhoffer, Laura A. King, Cindy K. Chung, Janice K. Kiecolt‐Glaser, Ronald Glaser, Daniel M. Wegner and Tracy J. Mayne. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Psychosomatic Medicine.
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