Table 2.
Moral Behaviors and Neutral Language Behaviors: Means, Standard Deviations, and Inter-Coder Reliabilities
| Sample 1 N = 11 |
Sample 2 N = 73 |
Sample 3 N = 102 |
All Samples N = 186 |
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| EAR Variable | M | SD | ICC (1,3) | M | SD | ICC (1,3) | M | SD | ICC (1,3) | M | SD | ICC (1,3) |
| Moral Behaviors | ||||||||||||
| Affection | 3.62 | 3.79 | .95 | 2.80 | 3.63 | .89 | 5.28 | 5.77 | .97 | 4.21 | 5.05 | .95 |
| Gratitude | 2.91 | 1.82 | .84 | 2.98 | 2.74 | .93 | 3.39 | 2.97 | .94 | 3.20 | 2.82 | .93 |
| Praise / Compliment | 3.10 | 1.81 | .35 | 3.02 | 2.64 | .70 | 4.46 | 3.34 | .65 | 3.81 | 3.08 | .67 |
| Sympathy / Concern | 2.54 | 2.28 | .59 | 3.85 | 3.39 | .28 | 8.00 | 4.67 | .73 | 6.05 | 4.62 | .69 |
| Help / Support | 4.73 | 3.70 | .16 | 11.89 | 10.49 | .27 | 20.57 | 7.52 | .45 | 16.22 | 10.00 | .51 |
| Apologize | 0.99 | 0.90 | .82 | 2.53 | 6.05 | .98 | 1.06 | 1.49 | .96 | 1.63 | 4.00 | .98 |
| Hope / Optimism | 1.85 | 1.83 | .04 | 2.17 | 2.74 | .72 | 1.83 | 1.75 | .48 | 1.96 | 2.19 | .61 |
| Sarcasm | 0.75 | 0.53 | −.51 | 0.84 | 0.94 | .41 | 0.45 | 0.72 | .36 | 0.62 | 0.83 | .39 |
| Brag | 0.57 | 0.72 | .59 | 0.40 | 0.62 | .53 | 0.13 | 0.34 | .53 | 0.26 | 0.51 | .57 |
| Condescending / Arrogant | 1.11 | 1.23 | .54 | 0.74 | 1.33 | .38 | 0.39 | 0.75 | .25 | 0.57 | 1.06 | .38 |
| Complain / Whine | 4.73 | 4.35 | .80 | 5.77 | 5.15 | .69 | 9.60 | 6.77 | .72 | 7.81 | 6.35 | .74 |
| Criticism | 3.72 | 3.10 | .74 | 3.95 | 3.48 | .71 | 5.10 | 4.56 | .80 | 4.57 | 4.11 | .78 |
| Blame | 0.52 | 0.66 | .56 | 0.51 | 0.72 | .37 | 0.96 | 1.22 | .50 | 0.76 | 1.04 | .49 |
| Pessimism | 0.95 | 1.03 | .36 | 0.80 | 1.13 | .44 | 0.86 | 1.13 | −.15 | 0.84 | 1.12 | .10 |
| Average | 2.29 | 1.98 | .49 | 3.02 | 3.22 | .59 | 4.43 | 3.07 | .59 | 3.75 | 3.34 | .63 |
| Neutral Language Behaviors | ||||||||||||
| Article | 4.32 | 0.70 | - | 3.80 | 0.77 | - | 4.40 | 0.70 | - | 4.16 | 0.78 | - |
| Preposition | 9.71 | 1.38 | - | 8.21 | 1.52 | - | 9.00 | 1.19 | - | 8.73 | 1.40 | - |
| Adverb | 6.68 | 0.46 | - | 5.45 | 1.03 | - | 5.78 | 1.05 | - | 5.71 | 1.05 | - |
| Space | 5.93 | 0.68 | - | 4.75 | 0.90 | - | 5.47 | 1.01 | - | 5.21 | 1.03 | - |
| Time | 4.53 | 0.79 | - | 4.13 | 1.02 | - | 4.56 | 0.93 | - | 4.39 | 0.98 | - |
| Number | 1.11 | 0.50 | - | 1.25 | 0.68 | - | 1.62 | 0.83 | - | 1.45 | 0.78 | - |
| Average | 5.38 | 0.75 | - | 4.60 | 0.99 | - | 5.14 | 0.95 | - | 4.94 | 1.00 | - |
Note. There are no ICCs for language categories because these were coded by a computer program (LIWC). Means are percentages of files with audible speech.