Table 1.

Frequency of Linguistic Inquiry Word Count categories by story type.

Dimension	Example	True stressful		False stressful		True non-stressful		False non-stressful
		M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Linguistic dimensions
Categorized words		45.12	11.56	44.43	9.10	43.28	9.38	42.50	10.38
Word count		315.67	240.48	258.26	181.00	220.33	136.81	212.10	157.86
Six-letter words		9.71	2.36	9.29	2.67	7.65	2.41	9.00	3.09
First-person singular	I, my	8.89	2.42	9.97	2.70	9.18	3.8	8.25	3.38
First-person plural	we, us	0.85	1.02	0.76	0.87	2.82	2.74	2.88	3.04
Total self references	I, we	9.75	2.09	10.74	2.47	2.82	2.74	11.13	3.08
Second person pronouns	you, your	0.62	0.81	0.61	0.82	0.39	0.83	0.25	0.54
Third person pronouns	she, their	6.21	2.02	5.97	2.55	2.19	1.53	2.87	2.71
Psychological processes
Positive emotions	happy, pretty	1.64	1.16	1.75	1.32	3.44	2.06	3.62	2.11
Positive feelings	joy, love	0.43	0.87	0.26	0.32	0.42	0.52	0.31	0.46
Negative emotions	hate, enemy	2.10	1.17	1.91	1.15	1.07	0.88	1.53	1.3
Sensory/perceptual Processes	see, touch	3.46	1.33	3.56	1.48	1.44	1.28	1.57	1.26
Tentative terms	maybe, guess	2.75	1.68	2.06	1.21	1.80	2.02	1.64	1.41
Cognitive processes	know, ought	5.60	2.89	5.45	2.56	4.58	2.47	5.08	2.51
Certainty	always, never	0.66	0.71	0.76	0.68	0.59	0.79	0.75	0.85
Discrepancy terms	should, would	1.85	1.37	1.79	1.45	1.23	1.36	1.67	1.39
Relativity
Spatial terms	around, over	2.61	1.49	3.02	1.52	3.28	1.62	2.81	1.70
Motion verbs	walk, move	1.55	1.14	1.95	1.34	2.16	1.74	1.87	1.36
Time	hour, day	6.05	3.06	5.76	2.55	6.31	3.03	6.04	2.88