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pplloveusonyelp.jpgIf you've ever wanted to order a psych evaluation for Yelpers, you're kind of, sort of in luck: A new study out of Stanford evaluated the language of 900,000 Yelp reviews and came away with some insights into the writers' emotional states. In short, negative reviews have all the markings of "narratives of trauma," while positive reviews tend to apply the language of addiction and sex to food. [-EN-]