Language use in emotional writing.
This brief report provides descriptive data on uses of language in emotional writing to give some dues on the mechanism of emotional writing. Two written samples, emotional writing and superficial writing, were analyzed using the program, Korean Linguistic and Word Count. Emotional writing has more complicated language structure and more cognitive words than the superficial writing.
Lee
Chang H
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Department of Psychology, Pusan National University, 30 Changjeon-Dong, Keumjeong-Ku, Pusan, 609-735, South Korea. chleehoan@pusan.ac.kr
Shin
Misung
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D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology; D003071:Cognition; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007803:Language Arts; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D012650:Self Disclosure; D012660:Semantics; D014956:Writing