James W. Pennebaker

James W. Pennebaker ( born March 2, 1950 in Midland, Texas) is an American professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Life

James Pennebaker doctorate in 1977 at the "University of Texas at Austin " in psychology. After that, he was until 1983 " Assistant Professor " in psychology at the University of Virginia, then to 1987, " associate professor " at Southern Methodist University and is a psychology professor since 1997 at the "University of Texas at Austin ."

Research priorities

With over 270 publications, research by James Pennebaker focused on

• Language and social processes.
• Personality research and social behavior
• Psychosomatic disorders, traumatic experiences and stress
• Individual perception

Writings (selection )

• JW Pennebaker: Opening Up: The Healing Power of confiding in Others. Avon Books, 1991, ISBN 0-380-70849-3.
• DM Wegner, JW Pennebaker: The Handbook Of Mental Control. Prentice Hall, 1992, ISBN 0-13-379280-3, p 624
• HC Traue, JW Pennebaker: Emotion, Inhibition and Health. Hogrefe & Huber Pub, 1993, ISBN 0-88937-060-5, p 280
• JW Pennebaker, D. Paez, B. Rim, D. Paez (eds.): Collective Memory of Political Events: Social Psychological Perspectives. Psychology Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8058-2182-1, p 320
• JW Pennebaker: Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions. Guilford Press, 1997, ISBN 1-57230-238-0, p 249
• JW Pennebaker, ME Francis: Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count. Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999, ISBN 1-56321-203- X.
• JW Pennebaker (Ed.): Emotion, Disclosure, and Health. American Psychological Association, 2002, ISBN 1-55798-943-5, p 337
• JW Pennebaker: Writing to Heal: A guided journal for recovering from trauma & emotional upheaval. New Harbinger Publications, Inc, 2004, ISBN 1-57224-365-1, p 176
• G. Ádám, JW Pennebaker: Visceral Perception: Understanding Internal Cognition. Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4419-3290-7, p 252