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Publication details [#60338]

Toma, Catalina L. and Jonathan D. D’Angelo. 2015. Tell-Tale Words. Linguistic Cues Used to Infer the Expertise of Online Medical Advice. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 34 (1) : 25–45.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

expert system | medical language | medical problem solving | website | word choice

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses linguistic cues employed by naïve perceivers to value the skills of online medical advisors.Only long words helped them to distinguish doctor and layperson messages. This adds to the research on linguistic correlates of psychological processes.