Publications

Pfeifer, V. A., & Mehl, M. R. (2026). Sliding Into Silence? We Are Speaking 300 Daily Words Fewer Every Year.. Perspectives on Psychological Science : A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 17456916261425131. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916261425131 (Original work published 2026)

Pfeifer, V. A., Jordan, K., Davis, T., Grilli, M. D., & Mehl, M. R. (2025). Younger and older adults’ aging well construals: a quantitative word use and topics comparison. Gerontology, 71(5), 388–399.

Tidwell, C. A., Danvers, A. F., Pfeifer, V. A., Abel, D. B., Alisic, E., Beer, A., Bierstetel, S. J., Bollich-Ziegler, K. L., Bruni, M., Calabrese, W. R., & . (2025). Are women really (not) more talkative than men? A registered report of binary gender similarities/differences in daily word use.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Baiocco, L., Pfeifer, V. A., & Lai, V. T. (2025). Metaphor processing is influenced by stimulus emotionality and task demands: Evidence from ERPs. Brain and Language, 261, 105530.

Pfeifer, V. A., Mehl, M. R., & Lai, V. T. (2025). Impact of Presentation-Language and Self-Construal on Irony Interpretation in Spanish–English Bilinguals. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 44(2), 204–223.

Pfeifer, V. A., Andrews-Hanna, J. R., & Lai, V. T. (2025). Can irony regulate negative emotion? Evidence from behaviour and ERPs. Cognition and Emotion, 39(7), 1737–1747.

Naffah, A., Pfeifer, V. A., & Mehl, M. R. (2025). Spoken language analysis in aging research: The validity of AI-generated speech to text using OpenAI’s Whisper. Gerontology, 71(5), 417–423.

Pfeifer, V. A., Naffah, A. G., & Mehl, M. R. (2025). Feel flows: Language use patterns in the lyrics of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. Psychology of Music, 03057356251342808.

Cohen, D. E., Hayhoe, J. A., Lynn, D., Cochran, C., Klus, J., Acevedo-Molina, M. C., Pfeifer, V., Davis, P. L., Andrews-Hanna, J. R., Mehl, M. R., & . (2025). Beyond who, what, and where: Findings from two experiments on age group differences in narrative elaborateness of autobiographical events. Memory & Cognition, 1–18.

Lai, V. T., Pfeifer, V., & Ku, L.-C. (2024). Emotional language processing: An individual differences approach. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 80, 73–104.