Family Quote by James W. Pennebaker

Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life.…

— James W. Pennebaker

One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence. Basically, we…

— James W. Pennebaker

“Remember that this is the first of four days of writing. In today’s writing, your goal is to write about your deepest thoughts and…

— James W. Pennebaker

“Younger people could dredge up an impressive number of dark words to express their pain. As writers got older and older, their negative emotion…

— James W. Pennebaker

“Human relationships are not rocket science—they are far, far more complicated. We can get our top scientists together and send people to the moon.…

— James W. Pennebaker

Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated

— James W. Pennebaker

The act of not discussing or confiding the event with another may be more damaging than having experienced the event per se.

— James W. Pennebaker

“A guy might find a woman attractive but she might find him repulsive. The two must tango together. And LSM is capturing the dance—whereas…

— James W. Pennebaker

“early 1990s, Deborah Tannen, a linguist at Georgetown University, attracted international notice with her book You Just Don’t Understand. Her book, which was on…

— James W. Pennebaker

“The reason we is such a fun word is that half of the time it is used as a way to bring the speaker…

— James W. Pennebaker

“I’ve since learned that when someone changes the conversational direction, it serves as a powerful marker of what is on his or her mind.”

— James W. Pennebaker

“Remember to write continuously the entire twenty minutes. And never forget that this writing is for you and you alone. At the conclusion of…

— James W. Pennebaker