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Archive for September, 2009

Psychology Articles Carnival

Welcome to the second edition of Psychology Articles Carnival! Discounting one eager individual who submitted 23 of his own articles, fewer submissions arrived in my inbox this month. This is because, unlike last month, I neglected to specifically ask psychology bloggers for articles. Foolishly thinking once would be enough, I sat back and waited, and  [ Read More ]

Categories: Psychology

TweetPsych

Posted by Warren Davies 4 Comments

Here’s a pretty interesting site I recently came across: TweetPsych.  It uses two linguistic analysis algorithms to pull out patterns in peoples’ Tweets.  The algorithms are the Regressive Imagery Dictionary (RID), and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC).  RID I’ve never heard of, to my immediate memory, but LIWC we came across in the How  [ Read More ]

Categories: News / Misc

Have you ever heard a recording of your voice, and thought “Holy crap!  Is that what I sound like?”  Everyone else’s voice sounds fine when recorded, but yours sounds strange, different.  I remember hearing once that our voices echoes in our skulls, and therefore they sound different to us than they do to others.  So  [ Read More ]

Categories: Psychology, Self-Help
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