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| Research article summary (published 30 Mar 2003): |
The sounds of social life: a psychometric analysis of students' daily social environments and natural conversations.
Full Abstract
The natural conversations and social environments of 52 undergraduates were tracked across two 2-day periods separated by 4 weeks using a computerized tape recorder (the Electronically Activated Recorder [EAR]). The EAR was programmed to record 30-s snippets of ambient sounds approximately every 12 min during participants' waking hours. Students' social environments and use of language in their natural conversations were mapped in terms of base rates and temporal stability. The degree of cross-context consistency and between-speaker synchrony in language use was assessed. Students' social worlds as well as their everyday language were highly consistent across time and context. The study sheds light on a methodological blind spot--the sampling of naturalistic social information from an unobtrusive observer's perspective.
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Author information
Author/s: Mehl, Matthias R (MR); Pennebaker, James W (JW);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA. mehl(-atsign-)psy.utexas.edu
Grants: MH52391 (Agency:United States NIMH)
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Journal: Journal of personality and social psychology (J Pers Soc Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Apr; vol 84 (issue 4) : pp 857-70
Dates: Created 2003/04/21; Completed 2003/07/28; Revised 2007/11/14;
PMID: 12703653, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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