Summit

2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2025

Lexical Analysis of Social Speech: Examining Symptom and Skill Associations with Word Use in Psychosis

Virtual · October 2025

Poster · Clinical Science

  • Kasey Schuchardt
    University of Maryland, College Park
  • Hannah Weinstein
    University of Maryland, College Park
  • Isabella Evans
    University of Maryland, College Park
  • Imani Todd
    University of Maryland, College Park
  • Brittany Davis
    The University of Maryland, College Park
  • Melanie Bennett
    University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine
  • Jack Blanchard
    University of Maryland, College Park

Abstract

We looked to determine how negative symptoms of psychosis may manifest in the lexical features of social speech using a socially affiliative prompt. There were 113 participants. Results indicated negative symptoms manifest in language during an affiliative encounter with reductions in the use of positive emotion words.

Psychopathology

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