Richard B. Slatcher

Assistant Professor

Department of Psychology

Wayne State University

5057 Woodward Avenue

Detroit, Michigan 48202

313-577-9091

slatcher@wayne.edu

 

 

Education

The University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D. in Psychology, 2007

      Program: Social and Personality Psychology

      Minor: Quantitative Methods

      Dissertation: Party of Four: Creating Closeness Between Couples

 

 

Publications

Slatcher, R. B. (In press). Marital functioning and physical health: Implications for social and personality 
       psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass[PDF]

Slatcher, R. B. (In press). When Harry and Sally met Dick and Jane: Experimentally creating closeness between
       couples. Personal Relationships[PDF]

Slatcher, R. B., & Vazire, S. (2009). Effects of global and contextualized personality on relationship
      satisfaction. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 624-633[PDF]

Slatcher, R. B. (2009). Language usage in relationships. In Harry T. Reis & Susan Sprecher (Eds.),
      Encyclopedia of Human Relationships (pp. 959-962). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [PDF]

Slatcher, R. B., Vazire, S., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2008). Am “I” more important than “We”? Couples’ word
      use in Instant Messages. Personal Relationships, 15, 407–424. [PDF]

Mehl, M. R., Vazire, S., Ramírez-Esparza, N., Slatcher, R. B., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2007). Are women
      really more talkative than men? Science, 317, 82. [link]

Kacewicz, E., Slatcher, R. B., and Pennebaker, J. W. (2007). Expressive writing: An alternative to traditional
      methods. In L. L’Abate (Ed.), Handbook of Interventions to Promote Physical and Mental Health:
      Theory, Research and Practice (pp. 271-284). Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [PDF]

Slatcher, R. B., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2007). Emotional expression and health. In S. Ayers, A. Baum, C. McManus,
      S. Newman, K. Wallston, J. Weinman & R. West (Eds.). Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and

      Medicine (2nd Ed., pp. 84-86). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [PDF


Slatcher, R. B., Chung, C . K., Pennebaker, J. W., & Stone, L. D. (2007). Winning words: Individual
      differences in linguistic style among U.S. presidential and vice presidential candidates. Journal of Research

      in Personality, 41, 63-75 . [PDF]


Slatcher, R. B., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2006). How do I love thee? Let me count the words: The social effects
      of expressive writing. Psychological Science, 17, 660-664. [PDF]

Pennebaker, J. W., Slatcher, R. B., & Chung, C. K. (2005). Linguistic markers of psychological state through
      media interviews: John Kerry and John Edwards in 2004, Al Gore in 2000.  Analyses of Social Issues
      and Public Policy, 5 , 197-204. [PDF]

Slatcher, R. B., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2005). Emotional processing of traumatic events. In C. Cooper (Ed.),
      Handbook of Stress, Medicine and Health (2nd Ed., pp. 293-307). Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press. [PDF]

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