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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"word count"”.
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Word Counts in Response to Cognitively Demanding Essay Prompts as Reflections of General Cognitive Ability and Broad Cognitive Abilities
… to natural language processing outcomes such as word counts, a foundation for language-based psychological assessment of those abilities can be laid. Over 400 participants were recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk to write cognitively demanding essays and complete a battery of cognitive …
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The narrative arc : exploring the linguistic structure of narrative
… narratives. To do this, the Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) text analysis program was used on a corpora composed of over 5,000 narratives. A five equal sized parts segmentation strategy was developed to track how narratives develop. Simple word count analyses of function and emotion words …
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Representation and Accuracy : An Examination of School Psychology Content in Introductory Psychology Textbooks
… content in introductory psychology textbooks. A word count was conducted on each textbook to determine the number of words devoted to school psychology, as well as clinical, counseling, and I/O psychology. Average word count was calculated for each applied area. Then effect sizes were computed …
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Analyzing Well-being in Late Life: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
… Life,” utilized data from 114 men. Linguistic word-count software (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) was applied to participants‘ interview responses, and quantitative analyses were employed to examine connections between language use and self-reported well-being, marital satisfaction, …
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Exploring the Impact of Virtual Reality and Avatars on Social Engagement in Older Adults at a Day Service Program
… Dependent variables were verbal initiations, word count, cumulative speaking duration, and happiness indices, and social validity questionnaires were also administered. Where condition-level differences emerged, they favored picture-assisted conversation. Verbal initiations did not differ …
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Comparison of Text Analysis Programs for Identification of Emotional Expression
… the previously validated Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count 2001 and the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count 2007, which has been edited based on the downfalls of the previous model. Results indicate that LIWC 2001 and LIWC 2007 have a high validity in their ability to identify emotional expression; …
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A content analysis on Facebook group, New Political Forum : South African mobile participation in online public spheres
… in debate and find information. Lastly the word count of each post was captured so as to establish its size. Findings revealed that 60% of all posts, and 54% of all comments in the sample were posted from mobile applications. This indicates that, during the period of study, although …
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Linguistic Predictors of Peer Responsiveness in an Online Cancer Support Group
… trial were collected. Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (2001) was used to identify linguistic markers of emotional expression and pronoun use. Message topics were identified using qualitative analysis. Logistic regression and chi-square analyses were used to evaluate whether linguistic …
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The Effect of Speech-to-Text Software on Learning a New Writing Strategy
… handwriting). Writing samples were evaluated for word count, number of types of rhetorical moves, surface errors, and word errors. Students also completed measures of cognitive load for the pretest, each writing activity, and post-test. Both training conditions resulted in large, statistically …
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Individual Differences and Group Effects for Keyboard and Stylus in Autobiographical Compositions and Summaries of Read Source Material for Students in Grades 4 to 9
… specific learning disabilities affecting letter, word, and sentence production. Students produced compositions alternating their use of either the stylus or the keyboard in a within-subjects design using two modes, each of which was repeated for three lessons in a row for three alternations for a …
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Exploring a Psycholinguistic Method of Assessing Attachment Orientation in Couple Therapy
… aimed to utilize the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software to assess attachment orientation in the context of an attachment-based couple therapy, with the broad goal of potentially expanding our ability to measure attachment orientation in research. The results indicate that attachment …
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La Quiero Ver~Quiero Verla: Monolingual and bilingual children's variable clitic placement
… were extracted (N =140 tokens, .2% of total word count). Both the monolingual and bilingual children produced high rates of proclisis (76%, 75%, respectively). It is concluded that naturalistic production data do not support the view that English impacts bilingual childrens patterns of …
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Work experience, coherence, and well - being: an examination of coherence and later work measures
… with measures from the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) program of a later work-related interview. Links between linguistic variables were not found in study two.</p>
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Social Isolation Meets Technological Innovation: Towards Developing A Model Of Communication Among Parents Who Homeschool
… These themes were verified through a word count listing from the software used to collect the data from the sample of blogs. The findings indicate that homeschoolers are not using blogs in the traditional sense, as an online journal. The findings also support that homeschoolers are …
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The friendly enemies: emergence effects in word choice for story generation responses to conceptual combinations
… as identified by the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) program, possibly indicating a potential for more action and description in stories generated from unusual prompts. The individual difference variables were not predictive of performance on the story task.
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You and I—pronoun use and communication patterns in anxious couples
… which were analyzed using a linguistic word count program. Results indicate that the use of I was not associated with ratings of communication whereas use of You by either partner was related to lower ratings of communication by both men and women. Moreover, the results of several …
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An Analysis of Undergraduate Introductory Astronomy Syllabi from Physics and Astronomy Departments
… of supplementary materials/activities, 2) total word count, 3) the number of explicitly stated course objectives, 4) identified course objectives, 5) degree of immediacy of instructor contact information present, 6) required textbook(s), and 7) the presence of a required laboratory component. …
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An exploratory investigation on the effects of online social networking sites on college students
… To examine communication, the number of words was counted. I hypothesized due to the increased use of online social networking sites; the group communicating through Facebook would have a higher word count than the group communicating face-to-face.
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An investigation of intellectual capital disclosure in annual reports of UK firms. Practices and determinants.
… measured by a disclosure index, supported by word count and percentage of word count metrics to assess the variety, volume and focus of IC disclosure respectively, at both overall and subcategory levels. The presentational formats and locations of IC disclosures were also recorded. The results …
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Applicability of basic virtual reality vs. pictures as prompts for conversation in dementia care
… and Praat, communication was evaluated through word count, conversation initiations, and pitch analysis metrics. Instances of observable happiness indices, such as smiling and laughter, were documented throughout all sessions. The study found the approach feasible overall, as both participants …
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