Table 5.

LIWC categories most associated with posts belonging to the “family or friend” group when compared with posts by the “has cancer” group. Effect size is reported as Cohen d.

LIWCa category	Cohen d
Third-person singular pronoun	1.168
Personal pronoun	0.977
Female references	0.964
Male references	0.746
First-person singular pronouns	0.543
Past focus	0.465
Affiliation	0.398
First-person plural pronouns	0.242
Sadness	0.224
Time	0.222
Present focus	0.221
Death	0.181
Friends	0.175

^aLIWC: Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count.