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Prisoners’ Words May Predict if They’ll Stay Clean: New Study by Drs. Keith Warren, Nathan Doogan

Prisoners’ Words May Predict if They’ll Stay Clean: New Study by Drs. Keith Warren, Nathan Doogan

December 19, 2016

Warren Keith CSWCheck out this unique research by Drs. Keith Warren and Nathan Doogan (PhD ’14) in the article “Use your words: Written prisoner interactions predict whether they’ll clean up their acts. Residents in peer-driven rehab less likely to reoffend when word choices change.”

New York Magazine also wrote the story “When Ex-cons Change Their Vocabulary, They Stay Out of Jail” on its Science of Us website.

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