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Hi, OP here.

The actual title of the linked article is "In an Absolute State: Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Is a Marker Specific to Anxiety, Depression, and Suicidal Ideation".

Unfortunately this is well over the 80 character limit for HN titles.

The journal page at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2167702617747074 has the abstract if you don't want to download a PDF.

Edited for minor wording changes



Hi, do you happen to have the list of absolutist and non-absolutists words you have used? I couldn't find it in the publication and the comment below (by slig, which lists the absolutist ones) does not give its source.


Page with links to all the tables: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/21677026177470...

Here's the list of absolutist words: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/21677026177470...

absolutely

all

always

complete

completely

constant

constantly

definitely

entire

ever

every

everyone

everything

full

must

never

nothing

totally

whole


Someone should check for the prevalence in these words in the lyrics that people with suicidal ideas listen to the most. Or the music that suicidal people compose.

For example Chester of Linkin Park was open and public about his battle with depression / suicidal ideas. Talked about it in interviews, etc. Now I want to know how often these words come up in his music, compared to a control.


Posted elsewhere in the thread




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