Publications by authors named "Colin A Tidwell"
Women are widely assumed to be more talkative than men. Challenging this assumption, Mehl et al. (2007) provided empirical evidence that men and women do not differ significantly in their daily word use, speaking about 16,000 words per day (WPD) each.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmbient audio sampling methods such as the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) have become increasingly prominent in clinical and social sciences research. These methods record snippets of naturalistically assessed audio from participants' daily lives, enabling novel observational research about the daily social interactions, identities, environments, behaviors, and speech of populations of interest. In practice, these scientific opportunities are equaled by methodological challenges: researchers' own cultural backgrounds and identities can easily and unknowingly permeate the collection, coding, analysis, and interpretation of social data from daily life.
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- The study investigates the link between emotional awareness (EA) and psychopathic tendencies among 177 undergraduate students, highlighting the unclear relationship between the two.
- It suggests that individuals with secondary psychopathy, often linked to early adversity, tend to have lower emotional awareness, while those with primary psychopathy may still possess high emotional awareness.
- The findings indicate that deficits in empathy and emotional awareness may be more pronounced in those with a history of childhood adversity and negative emotions.