Your Use Of Pronouns Reveals Your Personality

SKIP TO CONTENTHarvard Business Review LogoBusiness communicationYour Use of Pronouns Reveals Your Personality

by James W. Pennebaker

From the Magazine (December 2011)
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The finding: A person’s use of function words—the pronouns, articles, prepositions, conjunctions, and auxiliary verbs that are the connective tissue of language—offers deep insights into his or her honesty, stability, and sense of self.

A version of this article appeared in the December 2011 issue of Harvard Business Review.James W. Pennebaker is the chair of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us (Bloomsbury Press, 2011).
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