List of works - David Markowitz

A Multitheoretical Approach to Big Text Data: Comparing Expressive and Rhetorical Logics in Yelp Reviews

scientific article published on 14 July 2017

A Registered Conceptual Replication and Extension of Carter and Weber (2010): Generalized Trust, Lie Prevalence, and Deception Detection

scientific article published on 12 November 2024

Ability-related political polarization in the COVID-19 pandemic

scientific article published in 2021

Academy Awards Speeches Reflect Social Status, Cinematic Roles, and Winning Expectations

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

Analytic thinking as revealed by function words: What does language really measure?

scientific article published on 14 March 2023

Authentic First Impressions Relate to Interpersonal, Social, and Entrepreneurial Success

scientific article published on 6 April 2022

Can generative AI infer thinking style from language? Evaluating the utility of AI as a psychological text analysis tool

scholarly article

Communicating Imperatives Requires Psychological Closeness But Creates Psychological Distance

scientific article published in February 2020

Credibility Perceptions and Detection Accuracy of Fake News Headlines on Social Media: Effects of Truth-Bias and Endorsement Cues

scientific article published on 23 May 2020

Cross-checking journalistic fact-checkers: The role of sampling and scaling in interpreting false and misleading statements

scientific article published in 2023

Deception in Mobile Dating Conversations

scholarly article published on 26 April 2018

Deceptive (De)humanization: How Lying About Perceived Outgroups is Revealed in Language

scientific article published on 2 August 2022

Defining empathy: Interconnected discourses of virtual reality’s prosocial impact

scientific article published in August 2021

Empowered by the Experience: Playing as Female Characters in Video Games

scientific article published on 13 February 2025

Examining the Examiners: How Medical Death Investigators Describe Suicidal, Homicidal, and Accidental Death

scientific article published in April 2022

From complexity to clarity: How AI enhances perceptions of scientists and the public's understanding of science

scientific article published in September 2024

Games as Cognitive Recreation: User Perspectives on Brain-Training Apps

scientific article published in March 2024

Gender and ethnicity bias in medicine: a text analysis of 1.8 million critical care records

Generative AI Are More Truth-Biased Than Humans: A Replication and Extension of Core Truth-Default Theory Principles

scientific article published on 19 December 2023

How Experts React: The World Health Organization’s Appraisal of COVID-19 via Communication Patterns

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

Immersive Virtual Reality Field Trips Facilitate Learning About Climate Change

scientific article published on 30 November 2018

Instrumental goal activation increases online petition support across languages

scientific article published in June 2023

It’s the Situation and Your Disposition: A Test of Two Honesty Hypotheses

scientific article published on 6 April 2020

Linguistic Markers of Inherently False AI Communication and Intentionally False Human Communication: Evidence From Hotel Reviews

scientific article published on 11 September 2023

Linguistic Obfuscation in Fraudulent Science

Linguistic traces of a scientific fraud: the case of Diederik Stapel

scientific article

Numeric social-media posts engage people with climate science

scientific article published in July 2024

Numeric social-media posts engage people with climate science

scientific article published on 30 May 2023

Online searches shape climate views

scientific article published on 14 November 2024

Opportunities and Challenges to Conversations with Generative AI: Integrating Theoretical Perspectives from Clark and Pennebaker

scientific article published on 31 December 2024

PassivePy : A tool to automatically identify passive voice in big text data

scientific article published on 20 July 2023

Peer to Peer Lending: The Relationship Between Language Features, Trustworthiness, and Persuasion Success

scientific article published in February 2011

Presence and Pronouns: An Exploratory Investigation into the Language of Social VR

scientific article published on 28 April 2024

Psychological and physiological effects of applying self-control to the mobile phone

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Psychological trauma and emotional upheaval as revealed in academic writing: The case of COVID-19

scientific article published on 4 October 2024

Psychological trauma and emotional upheaval as revealed in academic writing: The case of COVID-19

scientific article published on 29 December 2021

Putting your best pet forward: Language patterns of persuasion in online pet advertisements ⬇️

scholarly article

Reading dies in complexity: Online news consumers prefer simple writing

scientific article published on 7 June 2024

Revisiting the Relationship Between Deception and Design: A Replication and Extension of Hancock et al. (2004)

scientific article published on 8 November 2021

Science Training for Political Reporters: Understanding Impact with a Mixed Methods Approach

scientific article published on 22 April 2022

Self-presentation in medicine: How language patterns reflect physician impression management goals and affect perceptions

scientific article published in June 2023

Social, Psychological, and Demographic Characteristics of Dehumanization: The Case of Immigration ⬇️

scholarly article

Social, psychological, and demographic characteristics of dehumanization toward immigrants

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Taking Note of Our Biases: How Language Patterns Reveal Bias Underlying the Use of Office Discipline Referrals in Exclusionary Discipline

scientific article published on 8 August 2023

The 27 Club: Music Lyrics Reflect Psychological Distress

scientific article published on 11 August 2016

The Deception Spiral: Corporate Obfuscation Leads to Perceptions of Immorality and Cheating Behavior

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

The Location of Maximum Emotion in Deceptive and Truthful Texts

scientific article published on 14 August 2020

The Truth Project

scientific article published on 24 December 2021

The predictive utility of word familiarity for online engagements and funding

scientific article published on 4 May 2021

The role of theory in researching and understanding human communication

scientific article published on 13 October 2023

The truth-default is ubiquitous, but some people experience it more than others

scientific article published on 10 October 2024

The ubiquity of long-tail lie distributions: seven studies from five continents

scientific article published on 2 November 2023

Toward a Deeper Understanding of Prolific Lying: Building a Profile of Situation-Level and Individual-Level Characteristics

scientific article published on 4 July 2022

Tracing the Adoption and Effects of Open Science in Communication Research*

scientific article published on 19 August 2021

Trusting on the shoulders of open giants? Open science increases trust in science for the public and academics

scientific article published on 30 June 2022

Verbal behavior and the future of social science

scientific article published on 30 May 2024

Virtual Reality and Communication

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Virtuous violence from the war room to death row

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

What Words Are Worth: National Science Foundation Grant Abstracts Indicate Award Funding

scholarly article

When context matters: how false, truthful, and genre-related communication styles are revealed in language

scholarly article

Why we dehumanize illegal immigrants: A US mixed-methods study

scientific article published in 2021

Words for Sale: Linguistic Complexity Associates with Higher Housing Prices in Online Realty Advertisements

scientific article published on 3 February 2023

Words to Submit by: Language Patterns Indicate Conference Acceptance for the International Communication Association

scientific article published on 15 January 2021

“All the Makings of an Eventual NFL Starter:” Racial/Ethnic Disparities in a Decade of National Football League Draft Profiles as Revealed by Natural Language Processing

scientific article published on 6 October 2023

List of works by David Markowitz

A Multitheoretical Approach to Big Text Data: Comparing Expressive and Rhetorical Logics in Yelp Reviews

A Registered Conceptual Replication and Extension of Carter and Weber (2010): Generalized Trust, Lie Prevalence, and Deception Detection

Ability-related political polarization in the COVID-19 pandemic

Academy Awards Speeches Reflect Social Status, Cinematic Roles, and Winning Expectations

Analytic thinking as revealed by function words: What does language really measure?

Authentic First Impressions Relate to Interpersonal, Social, and Entrepreneurial Success

Can generative AI infer thinking style from language? Evaluating the utility of AI as a psychological text analysis tool

Communicating Imperatives Requires Psychological Closeness But Creates Psychological Distance

Credibility Perceptions and Detection Accuracy of Fake News Headlines on Social Media: Effects of Truth-Bias and Endorsement Cues

Cross-checking journalistic fact-checkers: The role of sampling and scaling in interpreting false and misleading statements

Deception in Mobile Dating Conversations

Deceptive (De)humanization: How Lying About Perceived Outgroups is Revealed in Language

Defining empathy: Interconnected discourses of virtual reality’s prosocial impact

Empowered by the Experience: Playing as Female Characters in Video Games

Examining the Examiners: How Medical Death Investigators Describe Suicidal, Homicidal, and Accidental Death

From complexity to clarity: How AI enhances perceptions of scientists and the public's understanding of science

Games as Cognitive Recreation: User Perspectives on Brain-Training Apps

Gender and ethnicity bias in medicine: a text analysis of 1.8 million critical care records

Generative AI Are More Truth-Biased Than Humans: A Replication and Extension of Core Truth-Default Theory Principles

How Experts React: The World Health Organization’s Appraisal of COVID-19 via Communication Patterns

Immersive Virtual Reality Field Trips Facilitate Learning About Climate Change

Instrumental goal activation increases online petition support across languages

It’s the Situation and Your Disposition: A Test of Two Honesty Hypotheses

Linguistic Markers of Inherently False AI Communication and Intentionally False Human Communication: Evidence From Hotel Reviews

Linguistic Obfuscation in Fraudulent Science

Linguistic traces of a scientific fraud: the case of Diederik Stapel

Numeric social-media posts engage people with climate science

Numeric social-media posts engage people with climate science

Online searches shape climate views

Opportunities and Challenges to Conversations with Generative AI: Integrating Theoretical Perspectives from Clark and Pennebaker

PassivePy : A tool to automatically identify passive voice in big text data

Peer to Peer Lending: The Relationship Between Language Features, Trustworthiness, and Persuasion Success

Presence and Pronouns: An Exploratory Investigation into the Language of Social VR

Psychological and physiological effects of applying self-control to the mobile phone

Psychological trauma and emotional upheaval as revealed in academic writing: The case of COVID-19

Psychological trauma and emotional upheaval as revealed in academic writing: The case of COVID-19

Putting your best pet forward: Language patterns of persuasion in online pet advertisements ⬇️

Reading dies in complexity: Online news consumers prefer simple writing

Revisiting the Relationship Between Deception and Design: A Replication and Extension of Hancock et al. (2004)

Science Training for Political Reporters: Understanding Impact with a Mixed Methods Approach

Self-presentation in medicine: How language patterns reflect physician impression management goals and affect perceptions

Social, Psychological, and Demographic Characteristics of Dehumanization: The Case of Immigration ⬇️

Social, psychological, and demographic characteristics of dehumanization toward immigrants

Taking Note of Our Biases: How Language Patterns Reveal Bias Underlying the Use of Office Discipline Referrals in Exclusionary Discipline

The 27 Club: Music Lyrics Reflect Psychological Distress

The Deception Spiral: Corporate Obfuscation Leads to Perceptions of Immorality and Cheating Behavior

The Location of Maximum Emotion in Deceptive and Truthful Texts

The Truth Project

The predictive utility of word familiarity for online engagements and funding

The role of theory in researching and understanding human communication

The truth-default is ubiquitous, but some people experience it more than others

The ubiquity of long-tail lie distributions: seven studies from five continents

Toward a Deeper Understanding of Prolific Lying: Building a Profile of Situation-Level and Individual-Level Characteristics

Tracing the Adoption and Effects of Open Science in Communication Research*

Trusting on the shoulders of open giants? Open science increases trust in science for the public and academics

Verbal behavior and the future of social science

Virtual Reality and Communication

Virtuous violence from the war room to death row

What Words Are Worth: National Science Foundation Grant Abstracts Indicate Award Funding

When context matters: how false, truthful, and genre-related communication styles are revealed in language

Why we dehumanize illegal immigrants: A US mixed-methods study

Words for Sale: Linguistic Complexity Associates with Higher Housing Prices in Online Realty Advertisements

Words to Submit by: Language Patterns Indicate Conference Acceptance for the International Communication Association

“All the Makings of an Eventual NFL Starter:” Racial/Ethnic Disparities in a Decade of National Football League Draft Profiles as Revealed by Natural Language Processing