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Telling and the remembered self: linguistic differences in memories for previously disclosed and previously
1Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84109, USA. Pasupath@psych.utah.edu
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.
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