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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 29.
Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2015 Dec;34 Suppl:1252–1260. doi: 10.1037/hea0000279

Table 1.

Dictionary Categories and Examples

Word category Examples
Future could, gonna, may, might, must, ought, will, that’ll, won’t shall
Risky leisure blackjack, bong, casino, cigarettes, kegger, meth, skoal shrooms, stoned, vodka
Safe leisure beach, celebrate, chillin, jazz, karaoke, mall, museum play, runner, scrapbook

Note. “Future” is the future-tense verb category from LIWC2007 (Pennebaker, Booth, & Francis, 2007). The leisure categories are based on the leisure category from LIWC, which was expanded and subdivided into safe and risky leisure categories by trained raters for the present study.