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    "pk": 49897,
    "title": "Thinking through the past, present, and future: Language convergence-entropy is influenced by when you think of and how you feel",
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    "abstract": "Under construal-level theory, psychologically distant concepts such as a far away land are generally seen more abstractly compared to concepts viewed as closer in time, space, or identity. As we mentally travel through time, dynamics of language contained in streams-of-consciousness may provide a look into how we drift through topical space. Here, we investigated self-convergence and entropy using a BERT-based method to see how language drift over the course of typed streams-of-consciousness may be shaped by temporal framing. We applied this method to a dataset where undergraduate students during COVID-19 shared their thoughts imagining life before, during, and after the pandemic. We find that post-pandemic, future-directed thoughts showcase greater drift compared to past and present thoughts, suggesting greater exploration. Interestingly, past thoughts showed the least drift, suggesting there may be differences in concreteness depending on the direction in time you travel and the ability to have impact over temporally-tethered events.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Cognition of Time; Language and thought; Natural Language Processing; Computer-based experiment"
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qh8x1dr",
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        {
            "first_name": "Constance",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bainbridge",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Zachary",
            "middle_name": "P",
            "last_name": "Rosen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Rick",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Dale",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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