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Ryan L. Boyd
February 24, 2015
Professional E-mail
ryanboyd@utexas.edu
EDUCATION
Mailing Address
The University of Texas at Austin
108 E Dean Keeton St. Stop A800
Austin, TX 78712-1043
Ph.D. (in progress)
Social / Personality Psychology
Advisor: James W. Pennebaker
The University of Texas at Austin
M.S. (2012)
Social / Health Psychology
Advisor: Michael D. Robinson
North Dakota State University
Personal E-mail
ryanb@ryanb.cc
B.A. (2010)
Psychology
Advisor: Michelle Drouin
Indiana University—Purdue
University Fort Wayne
PRIMARY
RESEARCH
PROGRAMS
Language, text analysis across domains
Social processes, including social personality
Non-conscious processing of experience
Self and self-concept
Regulatory processes
Psychological disorders / mental health
Individual differences
Motives, values, attitudes, and drives
TEACHING
Introduction to Social Psychology
Personality Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Introductory Psychology
PEDAGOGICAL
INTERESTS
Text analysis and Social/Personality Psychology
Computer Science and Psychology
Introductory Psychology
Emotions and Self-Concept
PUBLICATIONS
Boyd, R. L., & Pennebaker, J. W. (in press). Did Shakespeare write Double Falsehood? Identifying an
individual’s psychological signature with text analysis. Psychological Science.
Course Instructor
Teaching Assistant – Michael D. Robinson
Teaching Assistant – Michelle Drouin
Teaching Assistant – Darren H. Kaiser
Spring, 2013
Fall, 2011
Spring, 2009
Spring, 2008
Software and Technology in Psychology
Personality Psychology
Statistics / Machine Learning and Data Mining
Social Psychology
Boyd, R. L., & Pennebaker, J. W. (in press). A way with words: Using language for psychological science
in the modern era. In C. Dimofte, C. Haugtvedt, & R. Yalch (Eds.), Consumer psychology in a
social media world. Routledge Publishers.
LeFebvre, L., LeFebvre, L., Blackburn, K., & Boyd, R. L. (in press). Student estimates of public speaking
competency: The Meaning Extraction Method and video self-evaluation. Communication
Education.
Robinson, M. D., Cassidy, D. M., Boyd, R. L., & Fetterman, A. K. (in press). The politics of time:
Conservatives differentially reference the past and liberals differentially reference the future.
Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
Boyd, R. L., & Robinson, M. D. (2015). Not sugar and spice and everything nice: Name letter
preferences as a predictor of daily antisocial behavior. Self and Identity, 14(2), 147-156.
Robinson, M. D., Boyd, R. L., & Fetterman, A. L. (2014). An emotional signature of political ideology:
Evidence from two linguistic content-coding studies. Personality and Individual Differences, 71,
98-102.
Robinson, M. D., Zabelina, D. L., Boyd, R. L., Bresin, K., & Ode, S. (2014). The self’s symbolic role in
implicit approach/avoidance: Movement time evidence. The Journal of Social Psychology, 15(4),
311-322.
Boyd, R. L., Bresin, K., Ode, S., & Robinson, M. D. (2013). Cognitive egocentrism differentiates warm
and cold people. Journal of Research in Personality, 47(1), 90-96.
Bresin, K., Boyd, R. L., Ode, S., & Robinson, M. D. (2013). Egocentric perceptions of the environment in
primary, but not secondary, psychopathy. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 37, 412-418.
Robinson, M. D., Boyd, R. L., & Liu, T. (2013). Understanding personality and predicting outcomes: The
utility of cognitive-behavioral probes of approach and avoidance motivation. Emotion Review,
5(3), 1-5.
Robinson, M. D., Moeller, S. K., Buchholz, M. M., Boyd, R. L., & Troop-Gordon W. (2012). The
regulatory benefits of high levels of affect perception accuracy: A process analysis of reactions
to stressors in daily life. Emotion, 12(4), 785-795.
Boyd, R. L., Robinson, M. D., & Fetterman, A. K. (2011). Miller (1944) revisited: Movement times in
relation to approach and avoidance conflicts. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47,
1192-1197.
RESEARCH
PRESENTATIONS /
INVITED TALKS
Pennebaker,J. W., Boyd, R. L., Ferrell, J. D., & Georgiev, N. (2014, December). Natural language, group
dynamics, and academic performance. Presented at The United States Army Research Institute,
Fort Belvoir, VA.
Boyd, R. L. (2014, October). The talking dead: A terrifying analysis of language, the horror genre, and
culture. Research presented at The University of Texas at Austin Social / Personality
Psychology Seminar.
Poldrack, R. A., Laumann, T., Frick, L., Koyejo, O., Gregory, B., ... Boyd, R. L., et al. (2014, June).
Extensive neurocognitive phenotyping of a single human: The MyConnectome Project. Paper
presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Hamburg, Germany.
Boyd, R. L., Ferrell, J. D., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2014, May). Small groups and Big Data. Research
presented at the Annual Conference for the Association for Psychological Science, San
Francisco, CA.
LeFebvre, L., LeFebvre, L., Blackburn, K., & Boyd, R. L. (2014, May). Predicting speech performance from
students’ written self-evaluations: A MEH analysis. Paper presented at the International
Communication Association, Seattle, WA.
Ferrell, J. D., Boyd, R. L., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2014, April). Individual differences and group dynamics:
Dropping the bomb on group behavior. Research presented at The University of Texas at Austin
Social / Personality Psychology Seminar.
Boyd, R. L., Ferrell, J. D., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2014, April). The language dynamics of groups and
associated group features. Research presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association,
San Antonio, TX.
Pennebaker, J. W., & Boyd, R. L. (2014, February). Did Shakespeare write Double Falsehood?: A
computerized text analysis approach. Paper presented at the “Double Falsehood and Cardenio:
Theobald, Fletcher, Shakespeare, Cervantes” conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Pennebaker, J. W., & Boyd, R. L. (2014, January). Playing 17th century detectives: The case of William
Shakespeare and the discovered play. Presented at The University of Texas at Austin Social /
Personality Psychology Seminar.
Pennebaker, J. W., Ferrell, J. D., & Boyd, R. L. (2013, December). Tracking Group Dynamics through
Natural Language. Presented at The United States Army Research Institute, Aberdeen Proving
Ground, MD.
Boyd, R. L. (2013, September). Contemplating concreteness: Classic conceptualizations, contemporary
content coding, computational capers, and curious correlations. Presented at The University of
Texas at Austin Social / Personality Psychology Seminar.
Boyd, R. L. (2013, May). Neuroticism and concreteness: Referent abstraction predicts affective instability
and the inadequacies of contemporary affective content coding methodologies. Research presented
at North Dakota State University Research Seminar.
Boyd, R. L. (2011, December). Differential perceptions of the environment: A process-driven approach to
trait interpersonal dimensions. Research presented at North Dakota State University Psychology
Research Seminar.
POSTERS / MINOR
PRESENTATIONS
Boyd, R. L., Pennebaker, J. W., Wilson, S., & Mihalcea, R. (2015, February). Language and values:
Understanding human values with language and language categories. To be presented at the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
Phillips, A. K., Ferrell, J. D., Boyd, R. L., Seih, Y. T., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2015, February). The
psychology of emoticons: A complementary language in our digital society. To be presented at
the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
Boyd, R. L., Fernandez-Lansac, V., & Crespo, M. (2014, June). Sex differences in trauma disclosure.
Presented at the International Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Hong Kong.
Boyd, R. L., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2014, February). Messengers of strong prevailment: Did Shakespeare
write Double Falsehood?. Presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology,
Austin, TX.
Boyd, R. L., & Robinson, M. D. (2013, January). Self-centric perceptions of the visual world at high levels
of interpersonal coldness. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology,
New Orleans, LA.
Boyd, R. L., Bresin, K., & Robinson, M.D (2012, August). Perceptual egocentrism in primary psychopathy.
Poster presented at the CVCN IDeA States Mini-Conference on Visual and Cognitive
Neuroscience.
Boyd, R. L., Robinson, M. D., & Fetterman, A. K. (2012, January). Stuck between a rock and a hard place:
Avoidance conflicts are more difficult to resolve than approach conflicts. Poster presented at the
annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Hill, C. A., Boyd, R. L., & Sprunger, J. (2010, November). Implicit and explicit sexual motives correlate
distinctively with sexual behaviors. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the
Scientific Study of Sexuality, Las Vegas / Henderson, NV.
PROFESSIONAL
WORKSHOPS
(DELIVERED)
Boyd, R. L. (2014, October). Language Analysis in Action: Theory and Practice in Content Coding, Topic
Modeling, Machine Learning, and Big Data. Tübingen, Germany.
PROFESSIONAL
WORKSHOPS
(ATTENDED)
Kruschke, J. K. (2013, March). Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: 2-day Bayesian Analysis Workshop. North
Dakota State University, Department of Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY
SOFTWARE
(MAJOR)
Boyd, R. L. (2015). MEH: Meaning Extraction Helper (Version 1.2.65) [Software]. Available from
http://meh.ryanb.cc
Boyd, R. L. (2014). RIOT Scan: Recursive Inspection of Text Scanner (Version 2.0.04) [Software].
Available from http://riot.ryanb.cc
Boyd, R. L. (2014). SWEET: Single Word Evolution of Emergent Themes. Currently in closed alpha
testing.
Boyd, R. L., Pennebaker, J. W., Blackburn, K., Ferrell, J. D., Malin, J. J., Cannava, K., & Seih, Y. (2014).
DOCTR: Discovery of Conversational Text Redundance (Version 1.2.8) [Software]. Available
from http://doctr.ryanb.cc
PSYCHOLOGY
SOFTWARE
(MINOR)
Boyd, R. L. (2014). 2-Level MLM Generator for R (Version 1.1.7) [Software]. Available from
http://toolbox.ryanb.cc
Boyd, R. L., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2014, February). The meaning extraction method and its friendly helper:
The what, why, and how of the MEM. Invited tutorial, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin,
TX.
Boyd, R. L. (2014). Ye Olde Token Converter (Version 0.2.5) [Software]. Available from
http://riot.ryanb.cc/other-tools
Boyd, R. L. (2013). 1-Way ANOVA Generator for R (Version 1.0.0) [Software]. Currently in closed alpha.
Boyd, R. L. (2013). LME Generator for R (Version 0.3.0 alpha) [Software]. Available from
http://toolbox.ryanb.cc
Boyd, R. L. (2013). Multiple Linear Regression Generator for R (Version 1.0.0) [Software]. Available
from http://toolbox.ryanb.cc
Boyd, R. L. (2013). Personality Scrubber (Version 1.4.2) [Software]. Available from
http://toolbox.ryanb.cc
Boyd, R. L. (2013). SAS Multiple Regression Generator (Version 0.1.0 beta) [Software]. Available from
http://toolbox.ryanb.cc
Boyd, R. L. (2013). StringSmoosh: An RGCalc Data Preparation Tool (Version 0.2 alpha) [Software].
Available from http://toolbox.ryanb.cc
Boyd, R. L. (2012). ConverSplitter. (Version 0.8.0 open beta) [Software]. Available from
http://riot.ryanb.cc/other-tools
Boyd, R. L. (2012). Guided Write. (Version 1.1.0) [Software]. Available from http://riot.ryanb.cc/othertools
Boyd, R. L. (2012). SAS MLM Generator (Version 0.7.0 beta) [Software]. Available from Available from
http://toolbox.ryanb.cc
Boyd, R. L. (2012). SAS Repeated-Measures GLM Generator (Version 0.0.4 beta) [Software]. Available
from http://toolbox.ryanb.cc
ACADEMIC /
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS
American Psychological Association
Association for Psychological Science
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
International Association of Language and Social
Psychology
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Psi Chi, National Psychology Honor Society
AWARDS
GRANTED
Professional Development Scholarship
GS Travel Award
PUBLISHING
COMMUNITY
CONTRIBUTIONS
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Psychiatry Research
Empirical Studies of the Arts
Human-Animal Interaction Bulletin
Manning Publications
Manning Publications
Manning Publications
Manning Publications
Pennebaker Conglomerates
Southwestern Psychological Association
The University of Texas at Austin, 2015
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2015
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Technical Development Editor
Technical Proofer