CHIP Lecture Series, Spring 2016
“Current State of the Art About the Expressive Writing Methods and Health”
James Pennebaker, PhD, University of Texas at Austin
12:30 - 1:30pm
Co-Sponsors:
UConn Center for Public Health and Health Policy
UConn College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
UConn Department of Communication
UConn Department of Human Development and Family Studies
UConn Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace
UConn Department of Psychological Sciences
UConn Marketing Department, UConn School of Business
UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
UConn School of Business
UConn School of Medicine, UConn Health
Location
Video Conference Room 204, 2nd floor
J. Ray Ryan Building, 2006 Hillside Road
University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
For directions and maps, see http://www.chip.uconn.edu/about/directions-to-chip/.
Accessibility: elevator available in building lobby on ground floor.
Web Stream
You can view this talk streamed live during the lecture – or archived after the lecture – here.
About the Speaker
James Pennebaker is the Regents Centennial Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, the university from which he received his Ph.D. in 1977. His early research focused on health, emotions, and physical health. In the mid-1980s he and his students discovered that expressive writing about emotional upheavals for 15 minutes per day for 3-4 days improves physical and mental health. Later, he developed the computer text analysis program LIWC. His work on natural language demonstrates the ways some of the most invisible words in English -- pronouns, articles, prepositions -- can reveal basic social, personality, health, and other psychological processes. Pennebaker is among the most cited researchers in psychology and psychiatry and the winner of multiple research and teaching awards.
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