title: Telling and the remembered self: linguistic differences in memories for previously disclosed and previously undisclosed events.
abstract: Prior work suggests that disclosing experiences may provide people with more distance, more positive emotion, greater cognitive elaboration, and greater certainty regarding those experiences. Two studies (n=58 undergraduates and n=123 community-living adults) examined linguistic indicators of such differences between previously disclosed and previously undisclosed memories elicited on subsequent, solitary occasions using the LIWC text analysis program (Pennebaker & Francis, 1999). Disclosure was associated with differences in the linguistic features of subsequent memories. Potential mechanisms and implications of those differences are discussed.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84109, USA. Pasupath@psych.utah.edu
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authors: Pasupathi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001325:Autobiographies as Topic; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008875:Middle Aged; D012650:Self Disclosure