“‘Writing Psychology’ Tag”,2019-11-21 (BP personality, mental energy, language)⁠:

Bibliography for tag psychology/writing, most recent first: 2 related tags, 99 annotations, & 47 links (parent).

• See Also
• Gwern
  • “Abs-E (or, Speak Only in the Positive) § text2epositive.py Experiment”, Gwern2024
  • “Why So Few Matt Levines?”, Gwern2024
  • “Why To Not Write A Book”, Gwern2024
  • “About This Website”, Gwern2010
  • “RSS/Atom Feed to the Site Content § Multi-Level Writing Ideas”, Gwern2024
  • “You Should Write More Online—It’s Still a Good Time”, Gwern2024
  • “What Is The Morning Writing Effect?”, Gwern2011
  • “Open Questions”, Gwern2018
  • “LSD Microdosing RCT”, Gwern2012
• Links
  • “I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT”, Livingstone2024
  • “Why I Still Blog After 15 Years”, Hietala2024
  • “Advice on Finding Writing Ideas: Mostly for Non-Fiction Authors”, McCarty2024
  • “Dwarkesh Podcast Progress Update”, Patel2024
  • “The Later Years of Douglas Adams”
  • “I Am a Strange Dataset: Metalinguistic Tests for Language Models”, Thrush et al 2024
  • “Writing Matters”, Feld et al 2024
  • “The LessWrong2022 Review § Cost of Book Production”, Habryka2023
  • “Brandon Sanderson Is Your God: He’s the Biggest Fantasy Writer in the World. He’s Also Very Mormon. These Things Are Profoundly Related”, Kehe2023
  • “Unexpected Interruptions, Idle Time, and Creativity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”, Schweisfurth & Greul2023
  • “Discovery Fiction”, Nielsen2023
  • “Listening Speaks to Our Intuition While Reading Promotes Analytic Thought”, Geipel & Keysar2022
  • “Creative Writing With Wordcraft, an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers”, Ippolito et al 2022
  • “Poor Writing, Not Specialized Concepts, Drives Processing Difficulty in Legal Language”, Martínez et al 2022
  • “The Sexes Do Not Differ in General Intelligence, but They Do in Some Specifics”, Reynolds et al 2022
  • “Nymph Piss and Gravy Orgies: Local and Global Contrast Effects in Relational Humor”, Siew et al 2022
  • “You Don’t Need to Answer Right Away! Receivers Overestimate How Quickly Senders Expect Responses to Non-Urgent Work Emails”, Giurge & Bohns2021
  • “Marketing Ideas: How to Write Research Articles That Readers Understand and Cite”, Warren et al 2021
  • “Fresh From Ganymede! § What Is A Book?”, Sloan2020
  • “ALL-CAPS”, Arbel & Toler2020b
  • “Compensatory Conspicuous Communication: Low Status Increases Jargon Use”, Brown et al 2020
  • “Creativity on Tap 2: Investigating Dose Effects of Alcohol on Cognitive Control and Creative Cognition”, Benedek & Zöhrer2020
  • “Beyond the Emoticon: Are There Unintentional Cues of Emotion in Email?”, Blunden & Brodsky2020
  • “Building the Perfect Curse Word: A Psycholinguistic Investigation of the Form and Meaning of Taboo Words”, Reilly et al 2020
  • “How Novelists Use Generative Language Models: An Exploratory User Study”, Calderwood et al 2020
  • “OTEANN: Estimating the Transparency of Orthographies With an Artificial Neural Network”, Marjou2019
  • “How Can We Develop Transformative Tools For Thought?”, Matuschak & Nielsen2019
  • “When the Muses Strike: Creative Ideas of Physicists and Writers Routinely Occur During Mind Wandering”, Gable et al 2019
  • “Curiosity Made the Cat More Creative: Specific Curiosity As a Driver of Creativity”, Hagtvedt et al 2019
  • “Profiling the International Academic Ghost Writers Who Are Providing Low-Cost Essays and Assignments for the Contract Cheating Industry”, Lancaster2018
  • “Pre-Sleep Treatment With Galantamine Stimulates Lucid Dreaming: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Crossover Study”, LaBerge et al 2018
  • “Q: How Do You Write so Quickly?”, Alexander2018
  • “Having a Creative Day: Understanding Entrepreneurs’ Daily Idea Generation through a Recovery Lens”, Weinberger et al 2018
  • “Humor Norms for 4,997 English Words”, Engelthaler & Hills2018
  • “Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort”, Shenhav et al 2017
  • “The Work Life of Developers: Activities, Switches and Perceived Productivity”, Meyer et al 2017
  • “Goal Setting, Academic Reminders, and College Success: A Large-Scale Field Experiment”, Chris2017
  • “Meta-Analysis of the Antidepressant Effects of Acute Sleep Deprivation”, Boland et al 2017
  • “Memory and the Construction of Scientific Meaning: Michael Faraday’s Use of Notebooks and Records”, Tweney & Ayala2015
  • “My Dad, the Pornographer”, Offutt2015
  • “Always Bet on Text”, graydon2 2014
  • “Bored Mondays and Focused Afternoons: the Rhythm of Attention and Online Activity in the Workplace”, Mark et al 2014
  • “Converting Rejections into Positive Stimuli”, Rubin2014
  • “Imperat Aut Servit: Managing Our Knowledge Inheritance”, Gauthier2013
  • “Things You Can’t Countersignal”, Alicorn2010
  • “Does Incubation Enhance Problem Solving? A Meta-Analytic Review”, Sio & Ormerod2009
  • “Temperament Profiles in Physicians, Lawyers, Managers, Industrialists, Architects, Journalists, and Artists: a Study in Psychiatric Outpatients”, Akiskal et al 2005
  • “Mania and Dysregulation in Goal Pursuit: a Review”, Johnson2005
  • “So You Want to Be a Writer?”, Bukowski2003
  • “It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask: Effects of Instructions to Be Creative, Practical, or Analytical on Essay-Writing Performance and Their Interaction With Students’ Thinking Styles”, O’Hara & Sternberg2001
  • “We Do Not Dream of the 3 R’s: Implications for the Nature of Dreaming Mentation”, Hartmann2000
  • “Which Is More Productive, Writing in Binge Patterns of Creative Illness or in Moderation?”, Boice1997
  • “Verbal Creativity, Depression and Alcoholism: An Investigation of 100 American and British Writers”, Post1996
  • “Office Productivity: the Impacts of Staffing, Intellectual Specialization and Technology”, Sassone1996
  • “Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught”, Rota1996
  • “Measuring the Complexity of Writing Systems”, Bosch et al 1994
  • “The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”, Ericsson et al 1993
  • “B. F. Skinner: A Life”, Bjork & W 1993
  • “Don’t Fire the Clerical Staff!”, Sassone1992b
  • “Survey Finds Low Office Productivity Linked to Staffing Imbalances”, Sassone1992
  • “Writing Is a Technology That Restructures Thought”, Ong1992
  • “Faraday’s Notebooks: the Active Organization of Creative Science”, Tweney1991
  • “‘On The Edge Of An Abyss’: The Writer As Insomniac”, Johnson1990
  • “Alcohol Input and Creative Output”, Ludwig1990
  • “Some Thoughts On The Real World By One Who Glimpsed It And Fled”, Watterson1990
  • “Mood Disorders and Patterns of Creativity in British Writers and Artists”, Jamison1989
  • “The Psychologist As Wordsmith: a Questionnaire Study of the Writing Strategies of Productive British Psychologists”, Hartley & Branthwaite1989
  • “Creativity and Mental Illness: Prevalence Rates in Writers and Their First-Degree Relatives”, Andreasen1987
  • “Writing Method and Productivity of Science and Engineering Faculty”
  • “Chance and Order”, Lem1984
  • “Perception and Practice of Writing for Publication by Faculty at a Doctoral-Granting University”
  • “Academics and Their Writing”, Hartley & Knapper1984
  • “Notes on Failure”, Oates1982
  • “History and Creativity: Research Problems and Some Possible Solutions”
  • “Academics and Their Writing [Abridged]”, Lowenthal & Wason1981
  • “Unintelligible Management Research and Academic Prestige”, Armstrong1980
  • “Individual Procedures”, Stein1974
  • “Silent Reading in Antiquity”, Knox1968
  • Legibility of Print, Tinker1963
  • “Borges and I”, Borges1962
  • “‘Cloze Procedure’: A New Tool for Measuring Readability”, Taylor1953
  • “Coleridge’s Dream”, Borges1951
  • “Getting Into Print”, London 1903
  • The Autobiography of Samuel Smiles, Smiles2024
  • “How Public Intellectuals Can Extend Their Shelf Lives”
  • “Don’t End The Week With Nothing”, McKenzie2024
  • “The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance”
  • “I Started Blogging 20 Years Ago Today”, Caplan2024
  • “Reading, Writing, and Fighting (with Mark Helprin)”, Roberts & Helprin2024
  • “To Get More Replies, Say Less”, Kogan2024
  • “A Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox”, Karlsson2024
  • “Wikipedia Shapes Language in Science Papers: Experiment Traces How Online Encyclopaedia Influences Research Write-Ups”
  • “Why I Am a Bad Correspondent”, Stephenson2024
  • “Can Rilke Change Your Life?”
  • “What Kind of Writer Is ChatGPT?”
  • “The Divine Discontent”
  • sarahdoingthing
  • “Duty Calls”, Munroe2024
  • “Zoey Ellis Books”, Ellis2024
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