Words of wisdom: Language use over the life span
Words of wisdom: Language use over the life span
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.85.2.291
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发表时间：
2003-08-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Stone, LD
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作者：
Pennebaker, JW;Stone, LD
有两个项目探索了语言使用和衰老之间的联系。在第一个项目中，来自披露研究的书面或口头文本样本来自45个不同研究的3000多名研究参与者。研究人员分析了3个国家的21个实验室，以确定人们使用14种文本维度的方式是如何随着年龄的变化而变化的。另一个项目分析了过去500年里10位著名小说家、剧作家和诗人的作品集。这两个项目都发现，随着年龄的增长，个体使用更多的积极影响词和更少的消极影响词，使用更少的自我指涉，使用更多的将来时态和更少的过去时态动词，并表现出认知复杂性增加的总体模式。讨论了在当前和历史文本中使用语言作为个性标记的含义。
Two projects explored the links between language use and aging. In the first project, written or spoken text samples from disclosure studies from over 3,000 research participants from 45 different studies representing. 21 laboratories in 3 countries were analyzed to determine how people change in their use of 14 text dimensions as a function of age. A separate project analyzed the collected works of 10 well-known novelists, playwrights, and poets who lived over the last 500 years. Both projects found that with increasing age, individuals use more positive and fewer negative affect words, use fewer self-references, use more future-tense and fewer past-tense verbs, and demonstrate a general pattern of increasing cognitive complexity. Implications for using language as a marker of personality among current and historical texts are discussed.