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Overview

Matthias R. Mehl is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant number of publications in the field. The main subfields of their work include social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

Their research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Mental Health via Writing
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Matthias R. Mehl has published papers in several established academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • European Journal of Personality
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS ONE

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Matthias R. Mehl cover various aspects of psychology and personality research:

  • Investigating the Relationship between Resident Physician Implicit Bias and Language Use during a Clinical Encounter with Hispanic Patients, 2021, Health Communication
  • Equilibria in Personality States: A Conceptual Primer for Dynamics in Personality States, 2020, European Journal of Personality
  • Best practices for Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) research: A practical guide to coding and processing EAR data, 2020, Behavior Research Methods
  • The think aloud paradigm reveals differences in the content, dynamics and conceptual scope of resting state thought in trait brooding, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • 'Personality in its Natural Habitat' Revisited: A Pooled, Multi-sample Examination of the Relationships between the Big Five Personality Traits and Daily Behaviour and Language Use, 2020, European Journal of Personality

Matthias R. Mehl collaborates frequently with a set of co-authors. Among the most frequent are Angelina J. Polsinelli, David A. Sbarra, Suzanne Moseley, Charles L. Raison, and Deanna M. Kaplan.

Best Publications

  • Psychological aspects of natural language. use: our words, our selves.

    James W. Pennebaker;Matthias R. Mehl;Kate G. Niederhoffer

  • Using linguistic cues for the automatic recognition of personality in conversation and text

    François Mairesse;Marilyn A. Walker;Matthias R. Mehl;Roger K. Moore

  • Handbook of research methods for studying daily life

    Matthias R. Mehl;Tamlin S. Conner

  • Linguistic Markers of Psychological Change Surrounding September 11, 2001

    Michael A. Cohn;Matthias R. Mehl;James W. Pennebaker

  • Personality in its natural habitat: manifestations and implicit folk theories of personality in daily life.

    Matthias R. Mehl;Samuel D. Gosling;James W. Pennebaker

  • The sounds of social life: A psychometric analysis of students' daily social environments and natural conversations.

    Matthias R. Mehl;James W. Pennebaker

  • Does Posting Facebook Status Updates Increase or Decrease Loneliness? An Online Social Networking Experiment

    Fenne große Deters;Matthias R. Mehl

  • The Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR): a device for sampling naturalistic daily activities and conversations.

    Matthias R. Mehl;James W. Pennebaker;D. Michael Crow;James Dabbs

  • Knowing me, knowing you: the accuracy and unique predictive validity of self-ratings and other-ratings of daily behavior.

    Simine Vazire;Matthias R. Mehl

  • Are women really more talkative than men

    Matthias R. Mehl;Simine Vazire;Nairán Ramírez-Esparza;Richard B. Slatcher

  • Eavesdropping on Happiness Well-Being Is Related to Having Less Small Talk and More Substantive Conversations

    Matthias R. Mehl;Simine Vazire;Shannon E. Holleran;C. Shelby Clark

  • When Leaving Your Ex, Love Yourself Observational Ratings of Self-Compassion Predict the Course of Emotional Recovery Following Marital Separation

    David A. Sbarra;Hillary L. Smith;Matthias R. Mehl

  • Prognostic Significance of Spouse We Talk in Couples Coping With Heart Failure

    Michael J. Rohrbaugh;Matthias R. Mehl;Varda Shoham;Elizabeth S. Reilly

  • Computergestützte quantitative textanalyse: Äquivalenz und robustheit der deutschen Version des Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count.

    Markus Wolf;Andrea B. Horn;Matthias R. Mehl;Severin Haug

  • Sounds like a Narcissist: Behavioral Manifestations of Narcissism in Everyday Life.

    Nicholas S. Holtzman;Simine Vazire;Matthias R. Mehl

  • The Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR): A Method for the Naturalistic Observation of Daily Social Behavior.

    Matthias R. Mehl

  • The Hispanic health paradox: From epidemiological phenomenon to contribution opportunities for psychological science:

    John M. Ruiz;Heidi A. Hamann;Matthias R. Mehl;Mary Frances O’Connor

  • Depression, negative emotionality, and self-referential language: A multi-lab, multi-measure, and multi-language-task research synthesis.

    Allison M. Tackman;David A. Sbarra;Angela L. Carey;M. Brent Donnellan

  • Hormones and personality: Testosterone as a marker of individual differences

    Jennifer Guinn Sellers;Matthias R. Mehl;Robert A. Josephs

  • Lab And/Or Field? Measuring Personality Processes and Their Social Consequences:

    Cornelia Wrzus;Matthias R. Mehl

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Sbarra
David A. Sbarra University of Arizona
James W. Pennebaker
James W. Pennebaker The University of Texas at Austin
Simine Vazire
Simine Vazire University of Melbourne
Mike Martin
Mike Martin University of Zurich
Elizabeth L. Glisky
Elizabeth L. Glisky University of Arizona
M. Brent Donnellan
M. Brent Donnellan Michigan State University
Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna
Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna University of Arizona
Jessica L. Borelli
Jessica L. Borelli University of California, Irvine
Vicki Anderson
Vicki Anderson Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Anke Ehlers
Anke Ehlers University of Oxford

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