James W. Pennebaker

Address
Department of Psychology
University of Texas
Austin, Texas 78712
email: Pennebaker@psy.utexas.edu
phone: 512-232-2781

Grants since 1984:
1984-1987 NIH grant ãPerception of physical symptoms and blood pressure,ä $183,415
1987-1989 NSF grant ãInhibition, Disclosing, and Health,ä $89,717
1989-1991 NSF grant ãThe Psychological Consequences of the 1989 California Earthquake,ä $14,919
1991-1994 NSF grant ãCognition, Disclosure and Health,ä $149,000
1994-1997 NSF grant ãEmotion, Disclosure, and Health,ä $67,000
1996-2000 NIMH grant ãInterpersonal disclosure processes and health,ä $320,000

Awards:
1989 Hilgard Visiting Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
1993 Docteur Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate), University of Louvain, Belgium
1995 Pavlovian Award, The Pavlovian Society

Publications: 2 books, 6 edited books, 84 refereed publications, 47 book chapters
Software:

• Pennebaker, J.W. & Francis, M.E.  (1999).  Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC):  A text analysis program.  Erlbaum Publishers (www.erlbaum.com)
• Books:
• Colligan, M., Pennebaker, J.W. & Murphy L. (Eds.)  (1982). Mass Psychogenic Illness:  A Social Psychological Perspective.  Hillsdale, NJ:  Erlbaum.
• Pennebaker, J.W. (1982).  The Psychology of Physical Symptoms.  New York:  Springer-Verlag.
• Pennebaker, J.W. (Ed.)  (1995).  Emotion, Disclosure, and Health.  Washington, DC:  American Psychological Association.
• Pennebaker, J.W.  (1997).  Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotion.  New York: Guilford Press. (www.guilford.com)
• Pennebaker, J.W., Paez, D., & Rimé, B.  (Eds.) (1997). Collective Memories of Political Events: Social Psychological Perspectives.  Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Traue, H. & Pennebaker, J.W. (Eds.) (1993).  Emotion, Inhibition, and Health.  Seattle: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.
• Wegner, D.M. & Pennebaker, J.W. (Eds.) (1993).  Handbook of Mental Control.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice-Hall.
• Selected publications:
• Davison, K.P, Pennebaker, J.W., & Dickerson, S.S. (in press).  Who talks?  The social psychology of illness support groups. American Psychologist.
• Pennebaker, J.W. & King, L.A.  (in press).  Linguistic styles: Language use as an individual difference.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
• Richards, J.M., Beal, W.E., Seagal, J., & Pennebaker, J.W.  (in press). The effects of disclosure of traumatic events on illness behavior among psychiatric prison inmates.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
• Esterling, B.A., LâAbate, L., Murray, E., & Pennebaker, J.W.  (1999).  Empirical foundations for writing in prevention and psychotherapy: Mental and physical health outcome.  Clinical Psychology Review, 19, 79-96.
• Petrie, K.P., Booth, R.J., & Pennebaker, J.W. (1998).  The immunological effects of thought suppression.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1264-1272.
• Tesser, A., Beach, S.R.H., Mendolia, M., Crepaz, N., Davies, B., & Pennebaker, J.W.  (1998).  Similarity and uniqueness focus: A paper tiger and a surprise.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 1190-1204.
• Pennebaker, J.W.  (1997).  Writing about emotional experiences as a therapeutic process.  Psychological Science, 8, 162-166.
• Pennebaker, J.W., Mayne, T.J., & Francis, M.E.  (1997).  Linguistic predictors of adaptive bereavement.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 863-871.
• Berry, D.S., Pennebaker, J.W., Mueller, J.S., & Hiller, W.S.  (1997).  Linguistic bases of social perception.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 526-537.
• Booth, R.J., Petrie, K.J., & Pennebaker, J.W.  (1997).  Changes in circulating lymphocyte numbers following emotional disclosure:  Evidence of buffering?  Stress Medicine, 13, 23-29.
• Pennebaker, J.W. & Francis, M.E.  (1996). Cognitive, emotional, and language processes in disclosure:  Physical health and adjustment. Cognition and Emotion, 10, 601-626.
• Pennebaker, J.W., Rimé, B., & Blankenship, V.  (1996).  Stereotypes of northerners and southerners:  A cross-cultural test of Montesqueâs hypothesis.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 372-380.
• Pennebaker, J.W. & Memon, A.  (1996).  Recovered memories in context:  Thoughts and elaborations on Bowers and Farvolden. Psychological Bulletin, 119, 381-385.
• Petrie, K.J., Booth, R.J., Pennebaker, J.W., Davison, K.P., & Thomas, M.G.  (1995).  Disclosure of trauma and immune response to a hepatitis B vaccination program.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 63, 787-792.
• Roberts, T.A. & Pennebaker, J.W.  (1995).  Womenâs and menâs strategies in perceiving internal state.  In M. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology, Vol. 27 (pp 143-176).  New York:  Academic Press.
• Spera, S.P., Buhrfeind, E.D., & Pennebaker, J.W.  (1994).  Expressive writing and coping with job loss.  Academy of Management Journal, 37, 722-733.
• Pennebaker, J.W. & Uhlmann, C.  (1994).  Direct linking of autonomic activity with typed text: The CARMEN machine.  Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 26, 28-31.
• Pennebaker, J.W. & Harber, K.  (1993).  A social stage model of collective coping:  The Loma Prieta Earthquake and the Persian Gulf War.  Journal of Social Issues, 49, 125-145.
• Pennebaker, J.W.  (1993).  Putting stress into words:  Health, linguistic, and psychotherapeutic implications.  Behaviour Research and Therapy, 31, 539-548.
• Pennebaker, J.W. & Roberts, T.A.  (1993).  Towards a his and hers theory of emotion: Gender differences in visceral perception. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 11, 199-212.
• Pennebaker, J.W., Colder, M., & Sharp, L.K. (1990).  Accelerating the coping process.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 528-537.
• Watson, D. & Pennebaker, J.W. (1989).  Health complaints, stress, and disease:  Exploring the central role of negative affectivity. Psychological Review, 96, 234-254.
• Pennebaker, J.W. (1989).  Confession, inhibition, and disease.  In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 22, pp. 211-244).  New York: Academic Press.
• Pennebaker, J.W., Barger, S.D., & Tiebout, J. (1989).  Disclosure of traumas and health among Holocaust survivors.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 51, 577-589.
• Pennebaker, J.W., Kiecolt-Glaser, J., & Glaser, R. (1988).  Disclosure of traumas and immune function:  Health implications for psychotherapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 56, 239-245.