The title superficially seems “causal” but it does say “…in analyses of…”. They also take great pains to find counter evidence in the paper. I never believe that any one study definitively answers anything, however, I do respect a study that is well done, and I felt that this one was.

This is a cool study, leveraging a huge dataset. The stats approach was sophisticated/rigorous. One caveat was that language use could only be assessed at a census rather than individual level bc of the data available. Both levels would be ideal but the authors did what they could. Kudos to them!

Thanks to the amazing CRBLM too!

We might! I forwarded to my students.

preaching to the choir here but language choices can reinforce bias, misinformation, etc for all sorts of folks.. eg, this piece led by @vegashodgins.bsky.social RE schizophrenia..

doi:10.1017/S0142716422000340

Saw another nytimes article on empathy this weekend that dovetails..