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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 May 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Pers Soc Psychol. 2008 Apr;94(4):560–578. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.94.4.560

Table 4.

Intercorrelations Between Word Count and Affective Linguistic Categories as a Function of Affective Coherence in Study 5

  Coherence Condition
Feeling Coherent Incoherent
  Positive Emotions  
All Positive Emotions .24 −.13
Positive Feelings .06 −.12
Optimism .37b .11

  Negative Emotions  
All Negative Emotions .16 .24a
Anxiety .02 −.01
Anger .05 .04
Sadness .14 .29a
a

significant at .05 alpha level.

b

significant .005 alpha level.