Diane S. Berry

Linguistic Bases of Social Perception

Target persons were videotaped while engaged in an interview. A text analysis program was used to ascertain the frequency with which they employed negative emotion words, positi...

Affective Traits, Responses to Conflict, and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships

Lying Words: Predicting Deception from Linguistic Styles

Telling lies often requires creating a story about an experience or attitude that does not exist. As a result, false stories may be qualitatively different from true stories. Th...

Positive affect, negative affect, and social interaction.

Two studies explored the relations of positive and negative affect (PA and NA) to social interaction.In Study 1, unacquainted dyads were surreptitiously videotaped as they parti...