{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Weaver & Loom","title":"Detecting lies and understanding personality through language - Dr James Pennebaker (part 1 of 2) [E153]","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2805,"description":"Did you know your usage of pronouns and prepositions might reveal parts of your personality that you’re not even aware of? Language is powerful, even the words you don’t even think about, like pronouns. Our guest Dr. James Pennebaker is a social psychologist and currently holds the position of the Regents Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. He studies the ways emotional experiences, natural language, and physical and mental health all affect one another. We discuss the language used by the President and former Presidents, analyses of the language used during coronavirus as an indicator of mental well-being, and findings presented in his most recent book, The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us. https://amzn.to/3dARYra Find more conversations like this one at lucasskrobot.com  or contact me through WhatsApp at +12029220220. Go out and own the future. Key takeaways: James Pennebaker’s work was born out of a need to base psychological on real-world behaviors. Some parts of speech are processed in the brain differently than others. Knowing this, one can understand people better through the language they use. When analyzing the language used by people during the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Pennebaker found significant increases in anxious language and a decrease in language suggesting anger. This is beginning to reverse. What to listen for: 01:44   How did you, as a social psychologist, decide to study people’s words? 6:33     Dr. Pennebaker discusses his findings of his language analyzing software, Linguistic Inquiry & Word Count (LIWC), which countered stereotypical perceptions about gender and language patterns. 10:19   How do we process various components of language differently in our brains? 20:00   Deceit is very difficult to detect, even for computers. Dr. Pennebaker explains why. 25:06   Pronoun usage provides insight into how a person, even the President of the United States, might be thinking.  ...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/oPD6kuiFIJWqsGrswc80-0ILSkpproWk9lo2ge3W-TA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hOTM0/NDgxOGUyNDkzNGY1/YWYzYTJkZmNiODE3/MWNkNi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}