He acted, as he always did, in a confident and self-assured manner, which caused his coworkers to treat him with intense hostility. Baldwin went to a self-service restaurant four times before being informed that black people were not served there, and that the wait staff had been waiting for him to realize this.
The same thing happened to him at establishments all over the state, and he began to fear going outside. Here Baldwin describes two parallel examples of the way in which racist societies force people to suppress their emotions.
At the diner, the white wait staff are not forthcoming about the fact that they do not serve black people, suggesting that they are embarrassed and perhaps even sympathetic to Baldwin, but do not feel able to express this. Meanwhile, Baldwin and other black people harbor a destructive rage that they must suppress in order to function and survive.
Baldwin grabbed a nearby water mug and threw it in her face, before immediately running out of the restaurant. His friend lingered outside the restaurant to send the police in the wrong direction. Afterward, Baldwin felt a sense of guilt toward his friend, as well as a shock at the realization that he could have been murdered and that he was prepared to murder someone himself. He experiences a sense of fury so powerful that it overwhelms practical considerations of his own safety—yet at the same time, he feels guilt toward his white friend and fear at the murderous rage living inside his own heart.
These conflicts of emotion illustrate the extent to which racism alienates Baldwin from himself and causes him to lose control of his actions. Related Quotes with Explanations. As racial tensions rise, the residents of Harlem wait for a climactic event to take place; at the same time they are also waiting for the end of the war, and—in a broader sense—the progress toward racial equality for which black people have been waiting since their abduction to the United States.
Progress vs. Baldwin visited his father only once during his illness. He had avoided seeing his father because he wanted to cling to the hatred he felt for him during his life. The next morning, he was pronounced dead, and his baby was born shortly after. Clinging to his hatred of his father helps Baldwin avoid the pain of losing him, yet it prevents him from establishing a meaningful relationship with his father. Furthermore, Baldwin emphasizes that hatred is always self-destructive for the person who hates.
His friend eventually found him a black shirt. At the church , Baldwin reflected that his aunt, who fought with his father throughout his life, was one of the only people who had a real connection with him. During the eulogy, Baldwin notes that the preacher was not describing his father as he really was, but rather inviting the congregation to forgive his father, reminding them that they did not know the full truth of what he suffered.
This passage is a cathartic and redemptive moment in an otherwise bleak essay. However, at the same time he experiences a sudden sense of connection to his father through the experience of hearing the song.
Annual Review of Psychology, 54, A general review of text analysis approaches in the social sciences -- with primary attention to word count strategies. This extensive literature review also summarizes work linking pronouns, prepositions, and other particles to social, personality, and clinical psychology. The social psychology of history: Defining the most important events of the last 10, , and years. Psicologia Politica, 32 , A summary of a large cross-cultural project wherein students reported on significant national and cultural events.
Petrie, K. The things we said today: A linguistic analysis of the Beatles. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 2 , Ramirez-Esparza, N.
Do bilinguals have two personalities? A special case of frame switching. Journal of Research in Personality. When bilinguals switch languages, their personalities subtly change. Roberts, T. Women's and men's strategies in perceiving internal state. Zanna Ed. New York: Academic Press. Women and men perceive their bodies, symptoms, and physical health differently.
We propose that women rely more on external situational cues relative to men. Shah, M. Climate denial fuels climate change discussions more than local climate-related disasters. Frontiers in Psychology , August, 26, The subReddits of six U. Rates of climate change discussion were higher in response to national political events associated with climate-denying movements than in response to climate-related events in their own communities.
Seraj, S. Language left behind on social media exposes the emotional and cognitive costs of a romantic breakup. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science , February 16, , 7 e An analysis of the Reddit postings of over 6, people who underwent emotional breakups. Clues from their written language pointed to impending breakups 3 months before they occurred and showed emotional aftereffects for more than six months afterwards.
Slatcher, R. How do I love thee? Let me count the words: The social effects of expressive writing. Psychological Science, 17, A study using expressive writing that finds that people who write about their relationship are more likely to remain in that relationship.
Also, the analysis of Instant Messages IMs finds that certain word-use patterns correlates with relationship success. Tausczik, Y. The psychological meaning of words: LIWC and computerized text analysis methods.
Journal of Language and Social Psychology , 29 , A broad summary of the LIWC dimensions and how they are related to various psychological states. A must read for the LIWC researcher. Improving teamwork using real-time language feedback. Small online working groups received real-time feedback based on computer analyses of their language use. Tellakat, M.
How do online learners study? The psychometrics of students' clicking patterns in online classes. PlosONE, March 25, In two large online introductory psychology classes, the ways students accessed study materials outside class strongly predicted course performance. Vine, V. Natural emotion vocabularies as windows on distress and well-being. Nature Communication, 11, Two large studies with 1, college students and 35, blog authors measured people's use of emotion words in open-ended text.
Counter to popular belief, richer and more diverse negative emotion categories were associated with great distress, higher rates of illness, and poorer adjustment. Watson, D. Health complaints, stress, and disease: Exploring the central role of negative affectivity. Psychological Review , 96 , Writing and Health: Some Practical Advice Writing about emotional upheavals in our lives can improve physical and mental health.
Although the scientific research surrounding the value of expressive writing is still in the early phases, there are some approaches to writing that have been found to be helpful. Keep in mind that there are probably a thousand ways to write that may be beneficial to you.
Think of these as rough guidelines rather than Truth. Indeed, in your own writing, experiment on your own and see what works best. Ideally, pick a time at the end of your workday or before you go to bed. Promise yourself that you will write for a minimum of 15 minutes a day for at least 3 or 4 consecutive days. Once you begin writing, write continuously. If you run out of things to write about, just repeat what you have already written.
You can write longhand or you can type on a computer. If you are unable to write, you can also talk into a tape recorder. You can write about the same thing on all days of writing or you can write about something different each day. It is entirely up to you. Something that you are thinking or worrying about too much Something that you are dreaming about Something that you feel is affecting your life in an unhealthy way Something that you have been avoiding for days, weeks, or years In our research, we generally give people the following instructions for writing: Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life.
Really let go and explore your feelings and thoughts about it. In your writing, you might tie this experience to your childhood, your relationship with your parents, people you have loved or love now, or even your career.
How is this experience related to who you would like to become, who you have been in the past, or who you are now? Many people have not had a single traumatic experience but all of us have had major conflicts or stressors in our lives and you can write about them as well. You can write about the same issue every day or a series of different issues. Whatever you choose to write about, however, it is critical that you really let go and explore your very deepest emotions and thoughts. Warning: Many people report that after writing, they sometimes feel somewhat sad or depressed.
Like seeing a sad movie, this typically goes away in a couple of hours. If you find that you are getting extremely upset about a writing topic, simply stop writing or change topics. The writing is for you and for you only. Their purpose is for you to be completely honest with yourself. When writing, secretly plan to throw away your writing when you are finished. Whether you keep it or save it is really up to you.
Some people keep their samples and edit them. That is, they gradually change their writing from day to day. Others simply keep them and return to them over and over again to see how they have changed. Here are some other options : Burn them. Erase them. Shred them. Flush them. Tear them into little pieces and toss them into the ocean or let the wind take them away.
Eat them not recommended. A video of the original writing method can be seen by clicking here. There are some outstanding books by people who have an intuitive and practical approach to writing. Each author approaches journaling or diary writing in very different ways. Check the various books out and see what works best for you.
Adams, Kathleen Sidron Press. Baldwin, Christina Evans Publisher. DeSalvo, Louise A. Beacon Press. Goldberg, Natalie and Guest, Judith Shambhala Press. Pennebaker, James W. NY: Guilford Press. Opening Up by Writing it Down. Expressive Writing: Words that Heal. Enumclaw, WA: Idyll Arbor. Rainer, Tristine The World of Words The words we use reflect who we are. Word choice can serve as a key to people's personality and social situations.
Since the mids, my students, colleagues, and I have been exploring the psychology of word use. Before reading further, you might want to try one or more brief demonstrations that will give you an appreciation of language use, measurement, and personality. This asks you to respond to a traditional TAT picture. The feedback is fairly broad. Demonstration 3 : Using the meaning extraction strategy, the computer can give you feedback about the ways you see the world depending on how you describe something as simple as a bottle.
Demonstration 4: Applying both LIWC and the meaning extraction method, we have developed an interesting way to analyze people's Twitter feeds. If you have a twitter handle, just enter one and you get feedback about that particular person. If you don't have one, try BarackObama for a demonstration. Very broadly, there are two types of words: content and style. Content words include nouns, regular verbs, and most adjectives and adverbs.
Style words include pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, and auxiliary verbs. The content words tell us what a person is saying; style words convey how they are saying it. They require a certain social skill to both use and interpret. LIWC, of course. You can either purchase it online www. All I ask in return is the right to keep a copy of your files to add to my growing text archive of over , files.
Indeed, if you would like to analyze some of the archived text as part of another project, contact me. To learn more about LIWC, you can read a detailed description online or download the manual which is in pdf format.
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