James W. Pennebaker

生年: March 02, 1950 – Midland, Texas, United States

James W. Pennebaker is an American social psychologist whose work centers on expressive writing, trauma, health, and the psychology of language. He helped pioneer research showing how writing about emotional experience can affect well-being, and is known for Opening Up and The Secret Life of Pronouns, as well as co-developing LIWC.

経歴と著者の歩み

James W. Pennebaker grew up in Midland, Texas, in a setting he has described as formative for a future social psychologist. After beginning college at the University of Arizona, he transferred with Ruth, who later became his wife, to Eckerd College, where psychology became his intellectual home; he earned his B.A. with honors in 1972 and completed a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Texas at Austin in 1977. His academic career took him first to the University of Virginia and then to Southern Methodist University before he returned to UT Austin in 1997, later serving as department chair and, eventually, professor emeritus. The major turning point came in the early 1980s, when research on physical symptoms and secrecy led him to a simple but far-reaching question: what happens when people put private upheaval into words?

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On their own, function words have very little meaning
-Word Choice Detects Everything from Love to Lies to Leadership, According to Psychology Research
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It’s a powerful cognitive tool, a powerful social tool, and a powerful health tool as well
-James Pennebaker and the Power of Physical Markers in Social Research
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Theories are grand but never take them too seriously
-Expressive Writing in Psychological Science
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What talking, writing, or putting these experiences into language does is simplify things
-How the Words We Use Reveal Who We Are
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If you were trained to think that getting a nonacademic job is failure, get over it
-Generational Shifts, New Methods, and the Future of Our Field
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We need to talk
-APS in Today’s World
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Higher education is in the midst of a revolution
-James Pennebaker to Oversee Educational Innovation at UT Austin
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But keeping it secret makes it even worse
-Secret-Keeping
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The anxiety levels were stunning
-Psychology project tracks how COVID-19 has changed society
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Industry, like academe, is not for everyone
-Exploring Tech Jobs as Psychological Scientists

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"James W. Pennebaker’s impact has spanned more than four decades and an unusually broad range of disciplines"

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Wendy Wood

"James W. Pennebaker is well-known in psychotherapy circles for his work on how language and mental health correspond"

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"James W. Pennebaker’s research on expressive writing and everyday language has affected most theoretical and applied areas of psychology"

APA

"James Pennebaker has been a leader in the computer analysis of texts for their psychological content"

Scientific American

"James Pennebaker is this psychologist and you really ought to read his remarkable book"

Daniel Wegner

"James W. Pennebaker is considered the pioneer of writing therapy"

APS

"James W. Pennebaker probes function words for clues to hidden states of mind"

Publishers Weekly

"James Pennebaker is one of the smartest, funniest, and most creative psychologists you will ever meet"

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