mental health

Culture and Language: How Stigma Can Impact Students’ Mental Health Conversations

College students in America have had a rise in mental health concerns, finding themselves facing internal and external troubles when seeking support and open dialogue. Although past studies discuss the external factors that impact the rise in mental health concerns in college students, few discuss the cultural factors that affect these college students’ ability to […]

Asian Americans, Chinese, college students, mental health, stigma

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Tongue-Tied Off a Tab: Can Linguistic Effects of LSD Reimagine How We Approach Mental Health Research?

Sociolinguistics

In our project, we investigated three linguistic variables – Disfluency/Stuttering, Figurative Language, and Introspection/Emotional Language – to explore their occurrence and patterns in speech, particularly under the influence of LSD. Disfluency manifests as disruptions or hesitations in speech, while stuttering involves involuntary sound repetition. Figurative language employs metaphors and analogies, and introspective/emotional language conveys inner

disfluency, figurative language, introspection, LSD, mental health, stuttering

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