Research: It's all in how you say it

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Have you ever heard someone say, "It's not what you said, it's how you said it?"

Now there is new research out of The University of Texas at Austin that backs up that statement.

Psychology professor James Pennebaker found that, depending on how a person uses pronouns like “I”, “me”, “he”, or “she”, just to name a few, can indicate whether someone is lying or telling the truth, and whether or not a person is depressed.

He calls it the " Secret Life of Pronouns ," which is the name of his new book.

The thing is, we don't really notice someone saying these words because they account for 40 percent of the words we use every day.

Instead there's a computer program to plug emails and text messages into which determines what someone is really saying.

"By tracking instant messaging we do a better job of predicting if that relationship will be together several months later than the people themselves do," Pennebaker said

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