article_snippet.sent: The findings were published this week by two scholars who used computer software to analyze the writings of the three men and compare The findings with the language of the "newer" play.
article_snippet.sent: It was shockingly clear," said Ryan L. Boyd, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin.
article_snippet.sent: The study, co-authored by Boyd and UT colleague James W. Pennebaker, was published in the journal Psychological Science.
article_snippet.sent: But the new study by Boyd and Pennebaker, the first to analyze the writings from a psychological perspective, may settle the matter once and for all.
article_snippet.sent: Shakespearean scholar Brean Hammond, professor of modern English literature at Nottingham University in the UK, praised the Texas study for Texas scientific approach.
article_snippet.sent: Boyd and Pennebaker're not literary scholars, (so) Boyd and Pennebaker work could be seen as more objective than some of the literary studies.
highlights_snippet.sent: Texas researchers used software to analyze and compare the language of the men .