I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I......

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29. Excerpts from "The Secret Life of Pronouns"

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Toward the end of his penetrating new book, “The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us,” Pennebaker crunches the numbers on presidential press conferences since Truman and finds that “Obama has distinguished himself as the lowest I-word user of any of the modern presidents.”

Speakers displaying self-­assurance have a lower frequency of I-words, even though most people would assume the opposite.

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I'm reading this book now.

For more on what "I, I, I, I," means, see this review:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/books/review/the-secret-life-of-pronouns-by-james-w-pennebaker-book-review.html?_r=0


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