In the new paper, Line Kruse shows how prediction of depression for the DCT replicates across languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, German, Filipino and Russian. Chinese was the odd one out, potentially due to small sample size (4/4).

Line Kruse has previously shown how the semantic response structure for the DCT can be used to predict depression of participants (3/4). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/...

The Demonstrative Choice Task is a simple taske where participants are shown words word and for each given a simple choice between "this" or "that". The task has no right or wrong responses, but across participants, we find highly structured behaviour: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Work with Line Kruse, Xinyi Yan, Paula Samide, Anja F. Meerwald, David T. Fjendbo & Johanne S.K. Nedergaard Published in Psychophysiology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (5/5)

Contrary to our hypothesis, we found no difference between positive and negative inner speech. Heart rate variability analyses suggest both an upregulation of sympathetic and down-regulation of parasympathetic responses are involved in the increased heart rate. (4/5)

We applied motion tracking, measures of respiration and articulatory subarticulation to rule out confounding effects. They all had an effect on the heart rate signal, but removing these effects did not remove the effect of emotional inner speech. (3/5)

We asked participants to talk to themselves in either a positive self-encouraging manner, in a negative self-degrading manner or to perform inner counting as a neutral control condition. We found that both positive and negative inner speech resulted in an increased heart rate of 1-2 BPM.. (2/5)

Nothing in life is either good or bad. It is only judged against its alternative that you can see how valuable free speech is.

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